Verse: 1
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Oh it happen'd in Vienna not so very long ago
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When not enough folks were getting sick,
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That a starving young physician
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Tried to better his position
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By dis covering what made his patients tick.
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Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud,
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How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed,
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For that set of circumstances
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Sure en hances the finances
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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud.
Verse: 2
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He forgot about sclerosis, but invented the psychosis,
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And a hundred ways that sex could be enjoyed.
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He adopted as his credo:
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"Down Repression—Up Libido!
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And that was the start of Doctor Sigmund Freud.
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Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud,
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How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed,
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For that set of circumstances
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Sure en hances the finances
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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud.
Verse: 3
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Then he analyzed the dreams of the teens and libertines,
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And he substituted monologues for pills.
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He drew crowds just like Wells-Sadler,
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When along come Jung and Adler,
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Who said, "By God, there's gold in them thar ills."
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Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud,
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How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed,
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For that set of circumstances
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Sure en hances the finances
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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud.
Verse: 4
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They encountered no resistance when they served as Freud's assistants,
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As with Ego and with Id they deftly toyed.
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And instead of toting bed pans,
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They bore analytic dead pans—
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Those ambitious doctors Adler, Jung and Freud.
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Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud,
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How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed,
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For that set of circumstances
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Sure en hances the finances
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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud.
Verse: 5
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Now, the Big Three have departed, but not so the cult they started—
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It's been carried on by many a goodly band.
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And to trauma, shock and war-shock,
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Someone went and added Rorshach,
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Now the thing has got completely out of hand.
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Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud,
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How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed,
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For that set of circumstances
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Sure en hances the finances
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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud.
Verse 6
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Now old men with double chinseys and a million would-be Kinseys
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Will discuss it at the drop of a repression.
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Now, I wouldn't be complaining,
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But for all the dough I'm paying,
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To lie down on someone's couch and say confession.
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Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud,
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How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed,
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For that set of circumstances
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Sure en hances the finances
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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud.