Wizard Oil (II)

DESCRIPTION: "I have written a song, so give me your attention, And I'll tell you what Wizard's Oil will and won't cure." The product proves capable of dealing with almost anything painful, "And a dollar a bottle is all it does cost."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: medicine disease trick commerce
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Randolph 506, "Wizard Oil" (1 text)
Roud #7592
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Wizard Oil (I)"
NOTES [51 words]: In the Hamlin's Wizard Oil Songbook (1890s?), this is credited to "J. D Laurens, Comic Vocalist, expressly for Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company No. 7."
Based on the list of illnesses "cured," one suspects that Wizard's Oil was probably almost-pure alcohol, and that it worked simply by dulling the pain. - RBW
File: R506

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