The Nursery Rhymes Collections 1-4 contain a total of 277 children's songs. Each double CD album showcases the highest quality children's music ever recorded with a total playing time in excess of 10 hours!
Miss Polly Had A Dolly (Full Audio and Lyrics)
Miss Polly had a dolly
Who was sick, sick, sick
So she called for the doctor
To be quick, quick, quick
The doctor came
With his bag and his hat
And he knocked at the door
With a rat-a-tat-tat.
He looked at the dolly
And he shook his head
And he said "Miss Polly,
Put her straight to bed"
He wrote out a paper
For a pill, pill, pill,
"I'll be back in the morning
With the bill, bill, bill"
Words & Music: Traditional
Arrangement: Ian J Watts/Mike Wilbury
This song was released on The Nursery Rhyme Collection 2
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Background notes
Hm. Let's have a closer look on this fascinating story:
The doctor is equipped with all insignia of modern medicin:
The doctor came
With his bag and his hat,
and he makes a diagnosis rather quickly without any examination.
He looked at the dolly
And he shook his head
Only a short glimpse does the job.
He wrote out a paper
For a pill, pill, pill,
The patient needs a lot of pills.
So what can we learn? Actually a lot: No matter how much time the doctor needs to make a diagnosis and how poor the medication might be: At the end of the day there will always be a bill.