Jug Band Music Lyrics

Lovin' Spoonful Jug Band Music

I was down in Savannah
Eatn' 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.
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 head ache
He was hung up in the desert swappin' rats
And tryin' ta 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 crawling' looking' dust baked
We gave 'im 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 down 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
greasy suntan lotion
when i got wiped out by a beach boy
he was surfing' when he hit me but he dropped his board to get me
and he dragged me by the arms just like a child's toy
as we staggered into land with all the waiters eatn' sandwiches
we tried to mooch a towel from the hoi poloi
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.