Doc Mob was written to be included in Adam Selzer's Cemetery Mix Tapes, a podcast airing in March of 2018. This song is inspired by America's First Riot of 1788. New Yorkers were angry that their loved-ones bodies were being stolen from their graves by folks selling them to doctors for dissections. They began attacking every doctor they could find, and our founding fathers had to defuse the situation as carefully as they could. Learn more on Adam's podcast!
lyrics
Doc Mob
Copyright 2018 by Mary Crowell
Chorus X2:
Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc Mob!
Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc Mob!
Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc Mob!
What’s the matter?
Quit stealing our cadavers!
There’s a hospital in New York City
Some boys saw a sight there wasn’t pretty
Up in the window! Sound the alarm!
Climb up a ladder! It’s a severed arm.
“Whose that belong to?” A little boy cried.
“That arm’s your Mama’s!” John Hicks may have lied.
The boy found his father, told the story and sobbed.
They went to Mama’s grave and found it had been robbed.
Chorus X2:
Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc Mob!
Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc Mob!
Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc, Doc Mob!
What’s the matter?
Quit stealing our cadavers!
[Descant]
What ‘cha doing in that cemetery?
You’ve got dirt beneath your nails.
Dug up every Thomas, Richard, and Harry.
Folks are putting bodies up for sale.
They’re throwing brickbats in New York City.
Hit Steuben’s head. It wasn’t pretty.
Broken the window! Sound the alarm!
They’ve taken the prison. Save us from harm.
John Hicks found a chimney where he could hide.
If they had found him he’d surely have died.
Doctors swore oaths to the people who mobbed
That they’d never requested the church yards be robbed.
Chorus X2 with Descant
credits
from Mary Crowell's Patreon: Year Three,
track released February 23, 2018
Music and Lyrics by Mary Crowell
Vocals, Clarinet, Piano, MIDI instruments by Mary Crowell
Vocals and clarinet recorded using an AT 4050 microphone with Logic Pro X software.
Album Art created by Wesley Crowell
Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Her Patreon is
here: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell
She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
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