wrote a letter this mornin put it in your hat cause no one to read it and i know that you knew that i bought a joke a trick or two just to bring and show you caught ya with the trickster too sometimes i wonder how ya knew a hypnotist fancy talker ruben remus ain t no doctor i knew the man and tried to remember just where it was i d seen his face long ago in a movie show he was like that man singin bass knew him by his nurs ry rhyme the story of the rabbit man fell right in and said to him i d like to help you if i can i know the film would only shock ya ruben remus ain t no doctor he only needed what you had asked for nothing more said he d like to take you on but it s been done before you couldn t see he s a travelin man and he cannot take your hand it s very hard to understand why his songs were never banned medicine man would never knock ya ruben remus ain t no doctor no one seen ya since he s been gone it s been a day maybe more i took a walk in your yard and knocked on your back door why won t you let me in i m not the one who did ya in is mr remus still your friend you say you don t remember him turn me down would ya well i ve got news for you turn me down would ya can t ya tell i m gonna change your mind before i m through