Jug band music (video) (midi)

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1. I was down in Savannah, eatin' cream and bananas,

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when the heat just made me faint,

I began to get cross-eyed, I thought I was lost,

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I'd begun to see things as they ain't.

As the relatives gathered to see what's the matter,

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the doctor came to see was I dyin',

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but the doctor said, "Give him jug band music

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it seems to make him feel just fine".

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I was told a little tale about a skinny-as-a-rail,

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eight-foot cowboy with a headache.

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He was hung up in the desert swattin' rats and tryin' to get

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a drink of water with his knees a-gettin' mud-caked.

And I'll tell you in a sentence, how he stumbled in to Memphis,

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Tennessee, hardly crawlin', lookin' dust-baked.

We gave him little water, a little bit of wine

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he opened up his eyes, but they didn't seem to shine.

then the doctor said, "Give him jug band music,

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it seems to make him feel just fine."

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2. So if you ever get sickly, get Sis to run quickly,

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to the dusty closet shelf,

and pull out a washboard, and play a guitar chord,

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and do a little do-it-yourself.

And call on your neighbors to put down their labors

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and come and play the hardware in time,

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'cause the doctor said, "Give him jug band music,

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it seems to make him feel just fine."

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I was floatin' in the ocean greased with suntan lotion,

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when I got wiped out by a beach boy.

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He was surfin' when he hit me, but jumped off his board to get me,

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and he dragged me by the armpit like a child's toy.

As we staggered into land with all the waiters eatin' sandwiches,

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he tried to mooch a towel from the hoi polloi,

he emptied out his eardrums, I emptied out mine,

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and everybody knows that the very last line,

is "the doctor said, give him jug band music

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it seems to make him feel just fine.”

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And the doctor said, "give him jug band music,

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it seems to make him feel just fine."

(The Lovin’ Spoonful)