My
name is Doctor Eisenbarth
The song was translated by Dr. Otto Hietsch (Original song title “Ich bin der Doktor Eisenbarth“)
More than seventy years after Dr. Eisenbarth´s death, the Eisenbarth song was composed by students, reviling him and his cures, but, at the same time, making him popular all over the world.
Johann Andreas Eisenbarth 1663-1727
Text 1
My Name is Doctor Eisenbarth,
TextDilly dally do dum dee!
For curing people I've an art,
Dilly dally do dum dee!
My treatment makes the blind men walk,
Dilly dally do dum dee!
And help the lame to see and talk,
Dilly dally do dum dee!
At Potsdam once i cured a man,
King Frederick´s chef i dit trepan
I took my hatchet to his head;
Poor fellow , now he´s lying dead.
At Ulm i gave a jab for pox,
The man´s blood ran right to his socks.
This vaccination stunt's a hit,
My needle is a roasting spit.
The sexton's son at Dideldum
I gave ten pounds of opium.
He fell asleep; years passet away,
And still he sleeps until this day.
In Vienna once a man wars ill.
His hollow tooth I cured with skill,
I took my gun and blasted it.
Good Lord, he's never felt so fit!
At Langensalza lived a man,
Whose goitre no two hands could span
I used a rope for tourniquet.
Propatum est, he's had this day.
These are the way I work my cure,
There tried and testet, that´s for sure.
That every treatment's sound and good.
I´ll swear upon my doctorhood.
Text 2
Dr.
Eisenbarth
My name is Dr.
Eisenbarth,
Willa-willa-wit boom boom!
I'll cure your ills
with healing art!
Willa-willa-wit boom boom!
For I can make
the dumb to walk,
Willa-willa-wit boom boom boom boom!
The
lame to see, the blind to talk!
Willa-willa-wit boom
boom!
Sing gloria! Sing gloria!
Willa-willa-wit boom
boom boom boom!
Sing gloria! Sing gloria!
Willa-willa-wit
boom boom boom boom!
They call me Dr. Iron
Beard,
Willa-willa-wit boom boom!
For all my cures I am
revered.
Willa-willa-wit boom boom!
For I can make the
dumb to walk,
Willa-willa-wit boom boom boom boom!
The lame
to see, the blind to talk!
Willa-willa-wit boom boom!
Sing
gloria! Sing gloria!
Willa-willa-wit boom boom boom boom!
Sing
gloria! Sing gloria!
Willa-willa-wit boom boom boom boom!
Text 3
Doctor Eisenbarth
My Name is Doctor Eisenbarth,
Dilly dally do dum dee!
For curing people I've an art,
Dilly dally do dum dee!
My treatment makes the blind men walk,
Dilly dally do dum dee!
And help the lame to see and talk,
Dilly dally do dum dee!
At Potsdam once i cured a man,
King Frederick´s chef i dit trepan
I took my hatchet to his head;
Poor fellow , now he´s lying dead.
At Ulm i gave a jab for pox,
The man´s blood ran right to his socks.
This vaccination stunt's a hit,
My needle is a roasting spit.
The sexton's son at Dideldum
I gave ten pounds of opium.
He fell asleep; years passet away,
And still he sleeps until this day.
In Vienna once a man wars ill.
His hollow tooth I cured with skill,
I took my gun and blasted it.
Good Lord, he's never felt so fit!
At Langensalza lived a man,
Whose goitre no two hands could span
I used a rope for tourniquet.
Propatum est, he's had this day.
These are the way I work my cure,
There tried and testet, that´s for sure.
That every treatment's sound and good.
I´ll swear upon my doctorhood.
Text 4
"Oh
I am Dr Iron Beard
Twiddly, widdly, wit, boom, boom!
I'll
cure your ills with healing arts
Twiddly, widdly, wit, boom,
boom!"
There was a simple bridge that ended
"The
lame to see,
the blind to walk
Twiddly, widdly, wit,
boom, boom!"
I also seem to recall another snippet of
it:
"Sing torry-a! Sing torry-a!
Twiddly, widdly,
wit, boom, boom, boom, boom!
Sing torry-a! Sing
torry-a!
Twiddly, widdly, wit, boom, boom!"
Text 5
Dr. Ironbeard
Oh, I
am Dr. Ironbeard, twilli willi witt boom, boom.
I'll cure your
ills with healing art, twilli willi witt boom, boom.
Now I can
make the dumb to walk, twilli willi witt boom, boom, boom,
boom
The lame to see, the blind to talk, twilli willi witt
boom, boom
Sing tor-i-ay, sing tor-i-ay, twilli willi witt
boom, boom, boom, boom
Sing tor-i-ay, sing tor-i-ay, twilli
willi witt boom, boom, boom.
Text 6
I am Doctor Eisenbarth
O,
I am Doctor Eisenbarth, Twil-li, wil-li, witt, boom boom!
I'll
cure your ills with healing art, Twil-li, wil-li, witt, boom
boom!
Now I can Make the dumb to walk, Twil-li, wil-li, witt,
boom boom boom!
The lame to see, the blind to talk, Twil-li,
wil-li, witt, boom boom!
Sing toriay sing toriay! Twil-li,
wil-li, witt, boom boom boom boom!
Singtoriay, sing toriay!
Twil-li, wil-li, witt, boom boom!
Text 7
DOCTOR IRONBEARD
I am
old Doctor Ironbeard,
Tol de-rol de-rol lol la.
If
ever of the man you'v (sic) hear,
Tol de-rol de-rol lol
la.
Can quickly make a blind man talk,
Tol de rol
de rol lol la.
And that the deaf begin to walk.
Tol
de rol de rol lol la.
[similarly:]
I drove ten
cartloads heavy stones...
From the body of old Mrs.
Jones....
The last her gravestone also came....
She is
since then no longer lame....
There was a man in
Diddledum....
I gave him five pounds opium....
He slept
ten years in easy rest...
And is as yet with snoozing
blest....
That is the way I cure the sick....
My
med'cines operate quite quick....
I cut and shoot and this
and that...
And therefore wear a doctor's hat....
A
woman had a wane, I found....
It weighed exactly 100
pound....
I choked her with a hempen cord...
Which did
directly help afford....
A boy of toothache did
complain....
Five hollow teeth did explain....
I shot them
with a pistol out...
And sent him on a happy rout....
Text 8
Doctor Eisenbarth
I
am the doctor Eisenbarth
I heal the people my way,
can make
the blind walk
and the lame see again.
In Ulm I healed
a man
in a way that the blood ran down his leg.
He wanted
to be vaccinated for cowpox,
I used a BBQ spit to do it.
In
Potsdam I trepanned
the cook of Frederik the Great (Friedrich
II of Prussia)
I hit an axe again his head
and the poor
bloke died.
I gave 10 pounds of Opium
to the son of the
sexton in Dudeldum (an invented placename),
from that he slept
years, day and night,
and hasn't been awake since.
A
man in Langensalz (might be an invented name, might be not)
had
a goitre at his neck, heavy as a hundredweight,
(I'm sure that
"Kopf" is a typo, it should be "Kropf")
I
tied it up with a rope,
probatum est (Latin: something like
"it is effective"), he has his peace now.
In
Prague, I took a cart-load of stones
out of a woman's
womb.
The last stone became her gravestone,
I guess she's
cured now.
An old bloke was so hungry
that he had pain at
his spleen.
(the next two lines are a very bold guess)
I
sent him express delivery
to a place where time's not money
anymore.
I started his cure this morning
at three
minutes to noon
and when the clock struck noon
he didn't
ask for his soup anymore.
An old farmer asked for me
who
hadn't slept since twelve years.
I soon brought him to
rest,
he didn't wake up until today.
In Vienna I cured
a man
who had a hollow tooth.
I shot it out with a
pistol.
By God, he's well now.
My greatest
masterpiece
I delivered in Osnabrueck.
An old guy was
podagric (type of gout)
I cut off both his legs.
If
ever a patient entrusted himself to my care,
I first had him
make his will.
I send nobody from this world
before he
hasn't (very free transl.:) made sure his house will be in good
hands.
That's the way I provide cures,
it is tried and
tested, I vouch for.
That my means are effective
I swear by
my doctor's cap.
Johannes Andreas Eysenbarth (spelling now
mostly Eisenbarth or Eisenbart), 27. 3. 1663 - 11. 11. 1727,
successful doctor at his time. However, his very vociferous way
of praising himself made him (his name) in Germany the prototype
of a quack. Several books exist about him and the above song,
most probably written by students many years later. There's a
countless number of verses.
Last
modification: 01.06.2010