Health Songs by Folk Artists

Healthcare, medicine, physicians, surgery.

Ian Robb / They're Taking It Away / From Different Angels
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)

[healthcare playlist from Angela Page]
Cala Ulbrich - Prednisone
Sick Humor: The lighter Side of Illness - http://www.carlau.com

Modern Man  Side Effects
Modern Immaturity - Inverted Turtle

Beth Ferguson -What is Mine (cancer)
Dance on the Earth -http://www.acappellacanada.ca/cdwhite/beth.html

David Roth - Manuel Garcia (cancer)
Rising in Love - Folk Era

Mark Weigle - If It Wasnt Love (lover claimed by aids)
The Truth Is - http://www.markweigle.com/

Joel Mabus - Druggest
Rhyme Schemes -Fossil Records

Christine Lavin - You Think You've Got Problems
Compass - Philo

Bitchin Babes - (West) Toe To Toe with the HMO
Beyond Four Bitchin' Babes - Shanachie

Cheryl Wheeler - Is It Peace or is it Prozac
Mrs. Pinocci's guitar - Philo

John Forster -Codependent With You
Entering Marion - Philo

Nancy Tucker - Everything Reminds Me of My Therapist
Parody of Jane Siberry's "everything Reminds me of my Dog"
Treasure From The Attic - Collie Flower Records
www.victorheyman.com/tucker.htm

Cosy Sheridan - PMS
Late Bloomer - sself

Cali Rose - It's a PMS Kind of day
Gets Goofy - Soup to Nuts Music

DaVincis Notebook -Liposuction
Bendy's Lad - http://www.davincisnotebook.com/index.asp

Cosy Sheridan - Iphigenia (bulemia/anorexia)
Pomegranate Seed - Wind River

Cosy Sheridan - Losing Game(bulemia/anorexia)
Pomegranate Seed - Wind River

Beth Furguson - Inside Talking
Inside Talking - http://www.acappellacanada.ca/cdwhite/beth.html

James Gordon & Sandy Horne - 1 in 5
1 in 5 (suffer from mental illness) - Pipe Street Records

Nancy Lee Baxter - Terrarium (nursing homes)
Touch and Go - Harvest Moon Recrods

Sirens - Em's Song (Alzheimer’s)
Smilin' - Borealis

Shel Silverstein -Sick (kids faking illness)
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Columbia

Trout Fishing in America - Need a Bandaid
Big Trouble - Trout Music

Dan Hart - Ritalin
Life of Dan - Stone Baot Music

Penny Lang - Menopausal Jig
Carry on Children - Silverwolf
www.pennylang.com

Matt Watroba (Krug) - Geritol Gypsy
The Best is Yet to Be - Ledgewood records

David Roth - Magic Pill (viagra)
Irreconcilable Similarieites - Wind River

David Roth - Holland
Irreconcilable Similarieites - Wind River

Beth Ferguson -Learning to Fall
Dance on the Earth -http://www.acappellacanada.ca/cdwhite/beth.html

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