He plays the song slightly different on all the live recordings, this verison is based on the album version
Play the chords like this to get the right choppy feeling.
The E7 is in fact a E7/A (alternating bass), played as a C7 four frets up
[Am] 577555
[Dm] 557765
[E7] 77675x
Intro
[E7] [Am] [E7] [Am]
Verse 1
[Am] [Dm]
Close the Door, close the door,
[E7] [Am]
Don’t let the doctor come in
[Am] [Dm]
Close the door and lock it tight
[Am] [E7] [Am]
I’ve got no money for the doctor tonight
Verse 2
[Am] [Dm]
Three weeks I spent in the hospital
[E7] [Am]
It left me with a stack of bills sky high
[Am] [Dm]
I’ll never be able to pay them I know
[Am] [E7] [Am]
I wish I would have stayed there and died
Chorus
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
Verse 3
[Am] [Dm]
Tell me why, please, tell me why
[E7] [Am]
We must pay for the things that we need
[Am] [Dm]
While a doctor gets richer off me each day
[Am] [E7] [Am]
I barely have the money to eat
Verse 4
[Am] [Dm]
So I’ll never go to the doctor no more
[E7] [Am]
No matter how sick I get
[Am] [Dm]
No doctor will ever get my dough
[Am] [E7] [Am]
‘Cause I work too damn hard for that
Chorus
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
Interlude
[E7] [Am] [E7] [Am]
[E7] [Am] [E7] [Am]
[E7] [Am] [E7] [Am]
[E7] [Am] [E7] [Am]
Verse 5
[Am] [Dm]
Oh, the doctor he sticks his needle in
[E7] [Am]
He says just to take some blood
[Am] [Dm]
What he claimed it was not red but green
[Am] [E7] [Am]
And boys he took all that he could
Verse 1
[Am] [Dm]
Close the Door, close the door,
[E7] [Am]
Don’t let the doctor come in
[Am] [Dm]
Close the door and lock it tight
[Am] [E7] [Am]
I’ve got no money for the doctor tonight
Chorus
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
[E7] [Am]
La dee da dee da, la dee da dee dum
Outro
[E7] [Am] [E7] [Am]
[E7] [Am] [E7] [Am]
[E7] [Am] [E7] [Am]
