Dear Doctor

About Dear Doctor

"Dear Doctor" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Dear Doctor" is a country song with blues inflections. It is a good example of the acoustic guitar-based compositions that has earned Beggars Banquet its reputation as the Rolling Stones' "return to form". Bill Janovitz says in his review of the song, "With all acoustic instruments — guitar, tack piano, 12-string, harmonica, tambourine, and upright bass — . ..the band manages to sound authentically old-time and primitive, with Mick Jagger employing the fake-American hick accent that he would continue to mine in future blues and country numbers throughout the Stones' career."On the Rolling Stones' experiments with country, Jagger said in 2003, "The country songs, like 'Factory Girl' or 'Dear Doctor', on Beggars Banquet were really pastiche. There's a sense of humour in country music anyway, a way of looking at life in a humorous kind of way - and I think we were just acknowledging that element of the music." more »

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Oh help me, please doctor, I'm damaged 
There's a pain where there once was a heart 
It's sleepin, it's a beatin' 
Can't ya please tear it out, and preserve it 
Right there in that jar? 

Oh help me, please mama, I'm sick'ning 
It's today that's the day of the plunge 
Oh the gal I'm to marry 
Is a bow-legged sow 
I've been soakin' up drink like a sponge 

"Don't ya worry, get dressed," cried my mother 
As she plied me with bourbon so sour 
Pull your socks up, put your suit on 
Comb your long hair down, 
For you will be wed in the hour 

So help me, please doctor, I'm damaged 
There's a pain where there once was a heart 
I'm sleepin, it's a beatin' 
Can't ya please take it out, and preserve it 
Right there in that jar? 

Oh help me, please doctor, I'm damaged 
There's a pain where there once was a heart 
It's sleepin, it's a beatin' 
Can't ya please tear it out, and preserve it 
Right there in that jar? 

I was tremblin', as I put on my jacket 
It had creases as sharp as a knife 
I put the ring in my pocket 
But there was a note 
And my heart it jumped into my mouth 

It read, "Darlin', I'm sorry to hurt you. 
But I have no courage to speak to your face. 
But I'm down in Virginia with your cousin Lou 
There be no wedding today." 

So help me, please doctor, I'm damaged 
You can put back my heart in its hole 
Oh mama, I'm cryin' 
Tears of relief 
And my pulse is now under control

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in Dartford in 1962. The earliest settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (keyboards, piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watts (drums). Since Wyman's retirement in 1993, the band's full members have been Jagger, Richards, Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood who joined in 1975. Darryl Jones (bassist) and Chuck Leavell (keyboardist) are regular contributors but not full band members. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stones in 1989, noting that "critical acclaim and popular consensus has accorded them the title of the “World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.”Rolling Stone magazine ranked them 4… more »

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