Lovin’ Spoonful – Jug Band Music Chords

I was down in Savannah, eating 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 dying
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 swatting rats and trying to get
A drink of water with his knees a getting mud caked
And I’ll tell you in a sentence how he stumbled in to Memphis,

Tennessee, hardly crawling, looking dust baked
We gave him a little water, a little bit of wine
He opened up his eyes, but they didn’t seem to shine
Then 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 your self

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”

I was floating in the ocean greased with suntan lotion
When I got wiped out by a beach boy
He was surfing 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 eating 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'”

And the doctor said “give him jug band music
It seems to make him feel just fine”