Name: Cod Liver Oil
Duration: P00H04M39S
Description: From the CD Two Seas. Recorded in 2006 at Albey Road Studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Produced by Al Snyder.

Cod Liver Oil

from Best of The Laughrey Connolly Band by Laughrey Connolly Band

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

about

From the CD Two Seas. Recorded in 2006 at Albey Road Studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Produced by Al Snyder.

lyrics

Cod Liver Oil
trad.

I'm a young married man and I'm tired of life
Ten years I've been wed to a pale sickly wife,
She's nothing to do only sit there and cry
Praying and praying to God she would die.
A friend of my own came to see me one day
He told me my wife she was pining away
He afterwards told me that she would get strong
If I get a bottle from dear Dr John.

Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Dr John
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of my life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

I bought her a bottle, well just for to try
And the way that she drank it you'd think she might die
I bought her another, it vanished the same
And then she got cod liver oil on the brain.
I bought her another, she drank it no doubt,
And then she began to get terrible stout,
And when she got stout well of course she got strong
And I became jealous of dear Dr John.

Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Dr John
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of my life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

Me house it resembles a great doctor's shop
Its covered in bottles from bottom to top
Well early the morning the kettle does boil
You would swear it was singing of cod liver oil.

Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Dr John
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of my life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking
Oh doctor, oh doctor, oh dear Dr John
Your cod liver oil is so pure and so strong
I'm afraid of my life, I'll go down in the soil
If me wife don't stop drinking your cod liver oil.

credits

from Best of The Laughrey Connolly Band, released October 3, 2017
Traditional
Christopher Laughrey: Lead vocals and guitar
Lawrence C. Connolly: Lead guitar and backing vocals
Duane Davis: bass
Lee McGinn: drums

license

about

Laughrey Connolly Band Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

contact / help

Contact Laughrey Connolly Band

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Laughrey Connolly Band, you may also like:

Would the Light Hold Me
by Oceanique

Celtic-inspired instrumentation, delicate harmonies, and reflective lyrics abound on the sisterly indie-folk duo's debut album. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 26, 2023
go to album
Wealth of Sorrow
by Cahalen Morrison

Bright and skipping songs that foreground the sound of the banjo and fingerstyle guitar in music that feels timeless. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 5, 2020
go to album
HOME
by Lewis Barfoot

From Cork, Ireland, Lewis Barfoot writes mystic, majestic songs derived from regional folk, with an ambient music aura. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 11, 2023
go to album
Imitation of War
by Itasca

Darkness begins to creep into the corners on the latest from Itasca. Bandcamp Album of the Day Feb 15, 2024
go to album
Write The Soil Lighter
by Mother Juniper

“Write The Soil Lighter” is full of beguilingly mysterious folk-adjacent music, shrouded in shadow and atmospherics. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 30, 2023
go to album
The Same Mistakes
by Hot Left Pole

Soft-as-a-whisper folk music, with spiderwebs of guitar and vocal melodies as comforting as a lullaby. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 26, 2023
go to album
Microcosmos
by Lou Turner

Crafting powerful songs about commitment and love, the Nashville singer-songwriter channels and subverts ’70s country and folk tropes. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 7, 2022
go to album