Lovin' Spoonful - Jug Band Music lyrics

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I was down in Savannah

Eatin' cream and bananas

When the heat just made me faint

I began to get cross-eyed

I thought I was lost, I'd

Begun to see things as they ain't

As the relatives gathered

To see what's the matter

The doctor came to see was I dyin'

But the doctor said give him jug band music

It seems to make him feel just fine

I was told a little tale

About a skinny as a rail

Eight foot cowboy with a headache

He was hung-up in the desert slottin' rats

And tryin' to get a drink of water

With his knees a-gettin' mud-caked

And I'll tell you in a sentence

How he stumbled into Memphis

Tennessee, hardly crawlin' lookin' dust-baked

We gave him little water, a little bit of wine

He opened up his eyes

But they didn't seem to shine

And the doctor said give him jug band music

It seems to make him feel just fine

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

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

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 waders eatin' sandwiches

And 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

And the doctor said give him jug band music

It seems to make him feel just fine