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I was down in Savannah |
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Eatn' cream and bananas |
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When the heat just made me faint |
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I began to get crosseyed |
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I thought I was lost |
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I'd begun to see things as they ain't. |
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As the relatives gathered to see what's the matter |
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The doctor came to see was I fine. |
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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 tail about a skinny as a rail |
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L.A. put cowboy with a headache |
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He was hung up in the desert swappin' rats |
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And tryn' ta get a drink of water with his knees gettin' mud caked |
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And I'll tell you and exceptance how he stumbled into Memphis, Tennessee |
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Lookin' hard and gettin' dust baked. |
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We gave 'im little water; a little bit of wine |
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he opened up his eyes but they didn't seem to shine |
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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 |
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So if you ever get sickly |
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get sister run quickly to the dusty closet shelf |
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and pull out a washboard; and play a guitar chord |
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and do a little do it yourself. |
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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 |
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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 |
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as we staggered into land with all the waiters eatn' sandwitches |
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we tried to mooch a towel from the hoi poloi |
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he emptied out his eardrums; i emptied out mine |
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and everybody knows that the very last line is |
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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. |
