Jug Band Music

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  • Intro:
     
    bass [guitar enters 3rd bar]:
  •  
    v v v v v v v v
    -----5-3---2-----|-----5-3---------
  • ---2---------1-2-|---2-------------
    -3---------------|-3-----------0-2-
    -----------------|-----------3-----
  •  
    Verse 1:
     
  • C
    I was down in Savannah, eatin' cream and bananas
    G7
  • When the heat just made me faint
    (G7)
    I began to get cross-eyed, I thought I was lost, I'd
  • C
    Begun to see things as they ain't
    (C)
  • As the relatives gathered to see what's the matter
    D7
    The doctor came to see was I dyin'
  • C
    But the doctor said, "Give him jug band music
    G7 C
  • It seems to make him feel just fine"
     
    Refrain 1:
  •  
    G7
    I was told a little tale about a skinny-as-a-rail
  • C
    Eight-foot cowboy with a headache
    G7
  • He was hung up in the desert swattin' rats and tryin' to get
    C
    A drink of water with his knees a-gettin' mud-caked
  • (C)
    And I'll tell you in a sentence how he stumbled in to Memphis,
    F
  • Tennessee, hardly crawlin', lookin' dust-baked
    (F)
    We gave him a little water, a little bit of wine
  • C
    He opened up his eyes, but they didn't seem to shine
    (C)
  • Then the doctor said, "Give him jug band music
    G7 C
    It seems to make him feel just fine"
  •  
    [repeat intro]
     
  • Verse 2:
     
    So if you ever get sickly, get Sis to run quickly
  • To the dusty closet shelf
    And pull out a washboard, and play a guitar chord
    And do a little do-it-yourself
  • And call on your neighbors to put down their labors
    And come and play the hardware in time
    'Cause the doctor said, "Give him jug band music
  • It seems to make him feel just fine"
     
    Refrain 2:
  •  
    I was floatin' in the ocean greased with suntan lotion
    When I got wiped out by a beach boy
  • He was surfin' when he hit me but jumped off his board to get me
    And he dragged me by the armpit like a child's toy
    As we staggered into land with all the waiters eatin' sandwiches
  • He tried to mooch a towel from the hoi polloi
    He emptied out his eardrums, I emptied out mine
    And everybody knows that the very last line
  • Is "the doctor said, 'Give him jug band music
    It seems to make him feel just fine'"
     
  • Coda:
     
    [repeat bars 1 and 4 of intro]
  •  
    "yakety throw-up guitar" (6-string bass w/fuzz), last bar:
     
  • v v v v
    -----------------
    -----------------
  • -----------------
    -----------------
    ---0-------------
  • ---------3---0---
     
    C
  • And the doctor said "give him jug band music
    G7 C
    It seems to make him feel just fine"
  •  
    (C) C7
    v v v v
  • -----------------
    -----------------
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  • -----------------
    -----0---1-------
    ---3---3---------
  • (...fine)
     
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