Doctor Freud - Pete Seeger

Oh it happened in Vienna, not so very long 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

Oh Doctor Freud, Oh Doctor Freud

How we wish you had been differently employed

For this set of circumstances surely enhances the finances

Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud

He forgot about sclerosis but invented the psychosis

Plus a hundred ways that sex could be enjoyed

He adopted as his credo, down repression, up libido

That was the start of Doctor Sigmund Freud

Oh Doctor Freud, Oh Doctor Freud

How we wish you had been differently employed

For this set of circumstances surely enhances the finances

Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud

He analyzed the dreams of the teens and libertines

He substituted monologues for pills

He drew crowds just like Will Sandler, when along came Jung and Adler

They said 'By God, there’s gold in them there hills'

They encountered no resistance as they served as Freud’s assistants

And with ego and with id they deftly toyed

Instead of toting bedpans, they wore analytic deadpans

Those ambitious doctors Adler, Jung, and Freud

Now the big three have departed, but not so this thing they started

It’s been carried on by many a goodly band

And to trauma, shock, and war shock, someone went and added Rorschach

The thing has got completely out of hand

Oh Doctor Freud, Oh Doctor Freud

How we wish you had been differently employed

For this set of circumstances surely enhances the finances

Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud