From a 1908 musical founded on cartoon “Little Nemo”.
Words by Harry B. Smith.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- If you think you are ill, you go in for a pill
Or a tonic, a drug or a plaster
But just leave it to me and you’ll very soon see
I can do for you very much faster
If you have a pain till you’re almost insane
And you feel you are rapidly sinking
I’ll speedily stop it and cause you to drop it
If you think that you think you are thinking
Refrain
There’s nothing the matter with you
With me, with him, with us, with we
Yourself you must tell you’re perfectly well
And then with yourself you agree
To medical science you utter defiance
With doctors and drugs you are through
For there’s nothing the matter with me
With him, with I, with me, with you
- If a toothache you’ve got and you suffer a lot
Do not fight it with any narcotic
But with might and with main you must think and the pain
Will soon yield to the power hypnotic
If a leg you should break it no dif’rence will make
Just think hard that your leg is all sound
Put your foot down and say “I can walk right away
And you’ll find you will cover the ground