Key: C major
Verse 1
Down the wide river a -courting I'd go
I'd find me a lassie
on the old Missus hill
To ease the bad pain that I had in my lip
Lip fever, lip fever, it's a terrible thing
It eats on your liver
and it gnaws on your brain
It causes a man and his money to part
And lip fever is worse
when you have no sweetheart
When I was a trader
on the old rack and sack
I courted a squaw and she courted me back
A brave drew his knife
and I heard the chief say
He's got the lip fever,
don't fight him today
Lip fever, lip fever, it's a terrible thing
It eats on your liver
and it gnaws on your brain
It causes a man and his money to part
And lip fever is worse
when you have no sweetheart
It's caused men to laugh
and it's caused men to cry
It's caused men to live
and it's caused men to die
It's caused some good women
to act like a mule
Of many a wise man
it's made a damn fool
Lip fever, lip fever, it's a terrible thing
It eats on your liver
and it gnaws on your brain
It causes a man his money to part
And lip fever is worse
when you have no sweetheart
Oh, what would I give if
tonight I could go
Down the white river from the wild buffalo
I'd give all my fortune
from travel and trade
To give the lip fever to another fair maid
Oh, lip fever, lip fever,
it's a terrible thing
It eats on your liver
and it gnaws on your brain
It causes a man and his money to part
Lip fever is worse
when you have no sweetheart
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