The Ballad of Sigmund Freud

The Ballad of Sigmund Freud (Live) - Harry Belafonte

Now we'd like to tell you the story of

Probably the grandfather of all modern day psychoanalysts

The great Doctor 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 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 things 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