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Song Info
Genre
Charts
#4,856 today
Peak #109
#476 in subgenre
Peak #8
Author
Georgia Tom Dorsey
Rights
Thomas A. Dorsey
Uploaded
June 06, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:06
Story behind the song
I first heard this song on a Big Bill Broonzy compilation called "Doin' That Guitar Rag". He played guitar while Georgia Tom played piano and sang, with Jane Lucas playing the part of the patient. I tried to get my wife to do the patient's lines, but she balked, so that's me doing them falsetto.
Google Georgia Tom Dorsey to find out more about this great man known as the father of gospel music.
Lyrics
Doc: All right, nurse, bring the next patient in.
Pt: (moaning)
Doc: Get up on this table, pull off that gown
Raise up that right leg, let that left one down
Pull off them stockings, that silk underwear
The doctor's got to cut you, mama, Lord knows where
You got two or three tumors, shaped like a cube
Two or three leaks in your inner tube
Bring on that ether, bring on that gas
The doctor's got to cut you, mama, yas, yas, yas
The doctor knows to fix it, the doctor know just what to do
Pt: Oh doctor, can I have just a little water?
Doc: Ssh, be quiet now, be quiet
Pt: Oh doctor, I'm so sick!
Doc: That's all right, the doctor ain't gonna hurt you
Pt: Can I have a little water, doctor?
Doc: After a while
Pt: Oh, what you gonna do with that long knife?
Doc: Oh, don't worry about that, that's just the doctor's tool
Pt: Oh doctor, what you gonna do with that saw?
Doc: Oh, we just take off legs with that
Pt: (moaning)
Doc: Be quiet, now
Now see, there you are, the doctor's through!
Pt: Oh doctor, what did you take out of me?
Doc: All right, I'll tell you now
Four monkey wrenches and a two horse-shay
Pt: (moan)
Doc: Pair of old britches and a bale of hay
Pt: (moan)
Doc: Your ribs was kinda loose, they moved about
If I hadn't of sewed you up, everything would fell out
Pt: (moan)
Doc: I put in new tubes, tightened the exhaust
I went into your hood and cleaned your spark plugs off
Your body's kinda weak, now don't be hard
From now on be careful with them connection rods
Pt: Alright, doctor!
Doc: The doctor knows to fix it, the doctor knows just what to do
Pt: Oh, gee, doctor, but I feel fine
Doc: Oh, that's fine
Pt: Say doctor, I feel like I wanna do a little messin' 'round
Doc: That so, go ahead!
Pt: Ooooh! Say doctor, that's good
Doc: Now that's the way patients do that come to this hospital
Your body's kinda weak, don't be hard
Go kinda easy with them connection rods
Pt: Alright, doctor!
Doc: The doctor knows to fix it, he knows just what to do
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