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 of libido
and that was the start of Dr.
Dr. Sigmund Freud
Well, Dr. Freud
Dr. Freud
Oh, Dr. Freud
Dr. Freud
How we wish you had been
differently employed
But the set of circumstances
Still enhances the finances
Of the followers of Dr. Sigmund Freud
Well, he analyzed the dreams
Of the teens and libertines
Substituted monologue perfumes
He drew crowds just like Welles Sadler
When along came Jung and Adler
And they said,
By God, there's gold in them bar ills
They encountered no resistance
when they served as Freud's assistants
As with ego and with id
they deftly toyed
But instead of totin' bedpans,
they wore analytic deadpans
Those ambitious doctors
Ezra Young and Freud
Well, Dr. Freud
Dr. Freud
Was marching in
Was marching in
How we wish you had been
differently employed
But the set of circumstances
still enhances the finances
Of the followers of Dr. Sigmund Freud
And now the big three have departed,
but not so the cult they started,
no, it's being carried on by
a woodly band.
And to trauma, shock,
and war -shock,
someone's gone and added Rorschach,
and the thing has got completely
out of hand.
So old boys with double chinsies
and a thousand would -be kinsies,
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, Dr. Freud, cha -cha -cha,
oh, Dr. 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 Dr. Sigmund Freud.
But the set of circumstances
Still enhances the finances
Well, that was beautiful, fellas.
Of the fathers of Dr. Sigmund Freud,
cha -cha -cha!
Sad Mitchell Trio.
Harry Belafonte
