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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           F                 C 
Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud, 
                                     G7 
How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed, 
         C 
For that set of circumstances 
        F 
Sure en hances the finances 
       C            G7             C 
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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           F                 C 
Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud, 
                                     G7 
How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed, 
         C 
For that set of circumstances 
        F 
Sure en hances the finances 
       C            G7             C 
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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           F                 C 
Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud, 
                                     G7 
How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed, 
         C 
For that set of circumstances 
        F 
Sure en hances the finances 
       C            G7             C 
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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           F                 C 
Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud, 
                                     G7 
How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed, 
         C 
For that set of circumstances 
        F 
Sure en hances the finances 
       C            G7             C 
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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           F                 C 
Oh, Doctor Freud, oh, Doctor Freud, 
                                     G7 
How I wish you had been otherwise em ployed, 
         C 
For that set of circumstances 
        F 
Sure en hances the finances 
       C            G7             C 
Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud.