Health Songs by Folk Artists

Healthcare, medicine, physicians, surgery.

Joel Mabus\ The Druggist\ Rhyme Schemes\ Fossil
Steve Price\ Take a Seat\ Awake\ ?
The Hunger Mountain Boys\ Hiccup Remedy Blues\ Three\ Old-Fi
Guy Clark\ Soldier's Joy, 1864\ The Dark\ Sugar Hill

[healthcare]
11. Garnet Roger: Election Night: North Dakota (At A High Window), Snow  
Goose 1121 [www.garnetrogers.com]
12. Ian Robb: They’re Taking It Away  (From Different Angels), Fallen 
Angle 01  [http://www.finestkind.ca/ian.html]
13. Anne Feeney: National Healt Care Now  (Union Maid), self 
[www.annefeeney.com]
14. Four Bitchin’ Babes: Toe to  Toe with The HMO (Beyond Bitchin’), 
Shanacnie 8035
15. Carla Ulbrich:  Patient 2946065 (Sick Humor), Official Seal 004 
[www.carlau.com]
16.  Austin Lounge Lizards: Rasputin’s HMO (Never An Adult Moment), 
Sugar Hill  3918
--from Susan Forbes Hansen

[health]
Sick Humor: The Lighter Side of Illness, by Carla Ulbrich (whole CD)

Women's Health Medley, Lisa Koch

Button Up Your Overcoat, Chenille Sisters

Spoonful of Sugar, Mary Poppins

Adelaide's Lament, Guys and Dolls

Cosie Sheridan, Turboyeast

Something in the Rain Tish Hinojosa

Toe to Toe with the HMO, Four Bitchin' Babes, Beyond Bitchin'

Dysentery Stomp Darol Anger

Bodymine, Lori B on Hurricane

The Flu, John McCutcheon, John McCutcheon's Four Seasons: Winter

The Flu, Karen Mantler, Get the Flu

Call a Doctor, Karen Mantler, Get the Flu

Joel Mabus: The Druggist, from his next to last CD (The song has been covered, hilariously, by Priscilla Herdman/Anne Hills/Cindy Mangsen on At the Turning of The Year)

I Got a Code in my Doze - Rosetta Duncan; Fred Hall and His Sugar Babes; Funny Lady soundtrack

Allergies, Paul Simon: Hearts and Bones

Rasputin'sHMO Austin Lounge Lizards on Never an Adult Moment

Try Carla Sciaky's "I'm a Wimp." A sickness song that doesn't end in death.

Steve Forbert, Get Well Soon on Best of - What Kind of Guy?

Sally Rogers: Some Little Bug, from an LP called Love Will Guide Us (from a Broadway musical called Alone at Last. Also performed by Phil Harris on My Country and on The Thing About Phil Harris. Also Ellis/Grey)

The TB is Whipping Me Ernest Tubb
The Coldness of Winter (waiting for an operation) Fraser sisters
Betsy   Bell (plague) Maddy ballads and candles
Meningitis Blues Ethel McCoy
Blacklung song Nimrod Workman
Trooper Cut Down
T.B.Blues John Jackson
Flu Blues Jack Kid
TetherlineThomasina
 Bronchiodilated Blues Carney and Grayling (Australia)

Mike Agranoff has a parody of "These are some of my favorite things", which
might be titled "These are some of my favorite diseases". It's very humorous. On cassette: Rocking the Boat

John Cooper Clark, Health Fanatic on Disguise in Love

The Elegants, Get Well Soon on Best of the Elegants

If I Don't Get Well No More by Jimmy Witherspoon (also covered by Carmen McRae, Lightnin' Hopkins, 

You Might Get Better, But You'll Never Get Well, Will Johnson, J.C. Higgenbotham,  Henry "Red" Allen

Loudon Wainwright - That Hospital - & Went to the Doctor on History

Greg Brown - Say a Little Prayer
Nancy Tucker - Everything reminds me of my therapist

St. James Infirmary Blues- I think that is the title- recorded by both Josh
White and Jr. also comes to mind

TB Blues, - done by many, but Leon Redbone's version from "Champagne
Charlie" stands out in my mind.

Hospitality Blues - Doug Harrell

I Got a Code in my Doze - Rosetta Duncan; Fred Hall and His Sugar Babes; Funny Lady soundtrack

Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu - Huey "Piano" Smith

Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu - Professor Longhair on Rock 'N' Roll Gumbo

-Tara Ayres, WORT-FM

Jamie Anderson / One Out of Three / Never Assume (about breast cancer)

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