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"Jug Band Music"
(John Sebastian)

Intro:

bass [guitar enters 3rd bar]:

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Verse 1:

CC Piano Chord 

I was down in Savannah, eatin' cream and bananas
G7G7 Piano Chord 

When the heat just made me faint
(G7)
I began to get cross-eyed, I thought I was lost, I'd
CC Piano Chord 

Begun to see things as they ain't
(C)
As the relatives gathered to see what's the matter
D7D7 Piano Chord 

The doctor came to see was I dyin'
CC Piano Chord 

But the doctor said, "Give him jug band music
G7G7 Piano Chord 
                          CC Piano Chord 

It seems to make him feel just fine"

Refrain 1:

G7G7 Piano Chord 

I was told a little tale about a skinny-as-a-rail
CC Piano Chord 

Eight-foot cowboy with a headache
G7G7 Piano Chord 

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

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,
FF Piano Chord 

Tennessee, hardly crawlin', lookin' dust-baked
(F)
We gave him a little water, a little bit of wine
CC Piano Chord 

He opened up his eyes, but they didn't seem to shine
(C)
Then the doctor said, "Give him jug band music
G7G7 Piano Chord 
                          CC Piano Chord 

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:

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CC Piano Chord 

And the doctor said "give him jug band music
G7G7 Piano Chord 
                          CC Piano Chord 

It seems to make him feel just fine"

(C)      C7C7 Piano Chord 

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(...fine)

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers