Jug Band Music - The Lovin' Spoonful

I was down in Savannah

Eatin' Cream and Bananas

When the heat just made me faint

I began to get crosseyed

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 fine dyin'

But the doctor said give him jug band music,

It seems to make him feel just fine.

I was told a little tail about a skinny as a rail

L.A. put Eight-foot cowboy with a headache

He was hung up in the desert swappin' fightin' rats

And tryn' ta get a drink of water with his knees gettin' mud caked

And I’ll tell you and exceptance in a sentence how he stumbled into Memphis

Tennessee

Lookin' hard and gettin' hardly crawlin' lookin' dust baked.

We gave 'I'm 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 sister 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 harp* anytime

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 arm just like a child’s toy

As we staggered into land with all the waitors waders eatn' sandwiches

We tried to mooch a towel from the harpoloy* not sure but I usuallysing «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.