Harry Belafonte - The Ballad Of Sigmund Freud

Well, it started in Vienna
Not so many years ago
When not enough folks
Were getting sick
That a starving young physician
Tried to better his position
By discovering what made
His patients tick

He forgot about sclerosis
And invented the psychosis
And a hundred ways
That sex could be enjoyed
He adopted as his credo
Down repression up libido
And that was the start
Of Doctor Sigmund Freud

Well, Doctor Freud (Doctor Freud)
Oh Doctor Freud (Doctor Freud)
How we wish you
Had been differently employed
But the set of circumstances
Still enhances the finances
Of the followers
Of Doctor Sigmund Freud

Well, he analyzed the dreams
Of the teens and libertines
Substituted monologue for pills
He drew crowds just like Will Sadler
When along came Jung and Adler
And they said by God
There's gold in them darn' ills

They encountered no resistance
When they served as Freud's assistants
As with ego and with id they deftly toyed
But instead of toting bedpans
They wore analytic deadpans
Those ambitious doctors Adler
Jung and Freud!

Well, Doctor Freud, (Doctor Freud)
Goes marching in (goes marching in?)
How we wish you
Had been differently employed
But the set of circumstances
Still enhances the finances
Of the followers
Of Doctor Sigmund Freud

Now the big three have departed
But not so the code the started
No, it's being carried
On by a goodly band
And to trauma shock and more shock
Someone's gone and added Rorschach
And the whole thing's
Got completely out of hand

So old boys with double chinsies
And a thousand would-be Kinseys
They discuss it
At the drop of a repression
And I wouldn't be complaining
But for all the loot I'm paying
Just to lie on someone's couch
And say confession

Well, Doctor Freud (cha cha cha)
Oh Doctor Freud (cha cha cha)
How we wish you
Had been differently employed
But the set of circumstances
Still enhances the finances
Of the followers
Of Doctor Sigmund Freud

But the set of circumstances
Still enhances the finances
(That was beautiful, fellas)
Of the followers
of Doctor Sigmund Freud
Cha cha cha.
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