The Ballad Of Sigmund Freud chords by The Chad Mitchell Trio

Intro:
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Now we'd like to tell you the story of probably the grandfather of all

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modern day psychoanalysts, the great Doctor Sigmund Freud.

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Well, it started in Vienna not so many years ago

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When not enough folks were getting sick

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That a starving young physician tried to better his position

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By discovering what made his patients tick

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He forgot about sclerosis and 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 "down repression up libido!"

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And that was the start of Doctor Sigmund Freud

Chorus:

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Well, Doctor Freud (Doctor Freud), oh Doctor Freud (Doctor Freud)

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How we wish you had been differently employed

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But the set of circumstances still enhances the finances

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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud

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Well, he analyzed the dreams of the teens and libertines

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Substituted monologue for pills

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

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And they said by God, there's gold in them darn' ills!

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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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But instead of toting bedpans, they wore analytic deadpans

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Those ambitious doctors Adler, Jung and Freud!

Chorus:

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Well, Doctor Freud, (Doctor Freud), goes marching in (goes marching in?)

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How we wish you had been differently employed

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But the set of circumstances still enhances the finances

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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud

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Now the big three have departed, but not so the code the started

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No, it's being carried on by a goodly band

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And to trauma shock and more shock, someone's gone and added Rorschach

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And the whole thing's got completely out of hand!

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So old boys with double chinsies, and a thousand would-be Kinseys

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They discuss it at the drop of a repression

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And I wouldn't be complaining, but for all the loot I'm paying

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Just to lie on someone's couch and say confession?

Chorus:

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Well, Doctor Freud (cha cha cha), oh Doctor Freud (cha cha cha)

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How we wish you had been differently employed

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But the set of circumstances still enhances the finances

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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud

Outro:
 (Soft, slow and sweet)

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But the set of circumstances still enhances the finances

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Of the followers of Doctor Sigmund Freud, cha cha cha