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Robert's Box Lyrics
Doctor where's your remedy?
I've got enough to pay the fee
Can't you see I'm awful sick?
I'll pay you well to do the trick
Doctor where's your magic box
There's no one here to count the cost
Name your price and make the sale
There's no-one here to tell the tale
Doctor please don't lock your door
I've never troubled you before
Just a pinch to ease the pain
I'll never trouble you again
I've got enough to pay the fee
Can't you see I'm awful sick?
I'll pay you well to do the trick
There's no one here to count the cost
Name your price and make the sale
There's no-one here to tell the tale
I've never troubled you before
Just a pinch to ease the pain
I'll never trouble you again
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The reference to “just a pinch” suggests that the doctor is not of the medical Beatles’ “Doctor Robert” type but a smack dealer along the line of Steely Dan’s “Doctor Wu”
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Another drug song, from the abuser's point of view. There was apparantly a somewhat famous London doctor who pushed pills to the gentry- the Beatles' "Doctor Robert" is about him.