Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:49:36 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers
Subject: ./l/lovin_spoonful/jug_band_music.crd
Jug Band Music
(John Sebastian)
Intro:
bass [guitar enters 3rd bar]:
v v v v v v v v
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-3---------------|-3-----------0-2-
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<---- 3X ----->
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
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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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(...fine)
-- another ace 60`s tab from Andrew Rogers
