A popular song from 1910.
Words and music by Jack Primrose.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- My name is Osler Offsky Bing
A man of great renown
My name is known all round the world
And also round this town
I’ve cured the most distressing case
Of Rhubarbs and Rheumatics
And if you’re bug-house on the top
I’ll put shingles on your attic
Refrain
For I am Osler Offsky Bing
A doctor to the King
A royal household surgeon
To his Highness highland fling
If there’s something wrong with you
I’ll tell you what to do
Just place your case if off your base
With Osler Offsky Bing
- I operated on a man
Who showed me by his tongue
That he was breathing on one side
Because he had one lung
I put a canine’s lung in him
His friends are all agog
Though once the laziest man in town
He’s working like a dog - I cure all cases of the ear
And also of earring
Miss Molly Shy she came to me
Her eyes were rather dim
She could not find a man to wed
Be married was her wish
I put a feline’s eye in her
So now she’s kitten-ish - A case of rare exception
Is one I will relate
John Bull he could not eat a bit
Because of stomach ache
I opened up his pinafore
As cunning as a fox
I sewed a bovine’s there instead
He eats now like an ox
Sung here by Vancha March: