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Jim Dixon Folk songs appropriate for medical students (141* d) Lyr Add: DOCTOR FEEL-GOOD (W.Perryman/'Piano Red') 24 Apr 23


This is the song I quoted on 16 Feb 00 and mentioned again the next day. Today I found it on YouTube and transcribed it.


DOCTOR FEEL-GOOD
(C. Smith)
As recorded by Dr. Feelgood* and the Interns on Okeh 4-7144 (45-rpm), 1962. [YouTube]

Hey, all o’ you women—now, don’t come around
Unless you weigh—around four hundred pound.
I’m from way down home—and I don’t eat chine bone.

You got to be—all right with me
Because the doctor—is really hard to please.

Now, you talk about women—I love ‘em all.
I love ‘em big—and then I love ‘em tall.
But if you don’t weigh what I want, baby—don’t come around at all.

You got to be—all right with me
Because the doctor—is really hard to please.

Now, you talk about women—I love ‘em all.
I love ‘em big—and then I love ‘em tall.
If you don’t weigh what I want, baby—don’t come around at all.

Well, they call me the doctor (Oh, yeah!) in my neighborhood (Oh, yeah!)
But my baby she calls me (Oh, yeah!) oh, Doctor Feelgood (Oh, yeah!)
Oh, you ever feel good? (Oh, yeah!) Have you ever felt good? (Oh, yeah!)

Well, you talk about women. (Oh, yeah!) That’s all I crave. (Oh, yeah!)
I believe, I believe (Oh, yeah!) they gonna take me to my grave. (Oh, yeah!)
Good, good, good, good, good, good. (Oh, yeah!) So good. (Oh, yeah!)
So good. (Oh, yeah!) Good, good, good, good, good, good. (Oh, yeah!) FADE.

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* Pseudonym of Willie Lee Perryman, a.k.a. Piano Red [Wikipedia].
Other recordings, made later than 1962, feature Perryman playing barrelhouse piano:
From “Dr. Feelgood” 1980. [Spotify]
From “Dr. Feelgood” 2000. [
Spotify]
From “The Lost Atlanta Tapes,” 2010. [
Spotify]


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