The Lovin' Spoonful – Jug Band Music (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
The bass plays the intro; the guitar enters 3rd time through playing the same notes an octave higher.
[Intro]
v v v v v v v v e|-----------------|------------------| B|-----------------|------------------| G|-----5-3---2-----|-----5-3----------| D|---2---------1-2-|---2--------------| A|-3---------------|-3-----------0-2--| E|-----------------|-----------3------| |----- x3 ------|
[Verse 1]
C I was down in Savannah, eatin' cream and bananas G7 When the heat just made me faint G7 I began to get cross-eyed, I thought I was lost, I'd C Begun to see things as they ain't C As the relatives gathered to see what's the matter D7 The doctor came to see was I dyin' C But the doctor said, "Give him jug band music G7 C It seems to make him feel just fine"
[Refrain 1]
G7 I was told a little tale about a skinny-as-a-rail C Eight-foot cowboy with a headache G7 He was hung up in the desert swattin' rats and tryin' to get C 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, F Tennessee, hardly crawlin', lookin' dust-baked F We gave him a little water, a little bit of wine C He opened up his eyes, but they didn't seem to shine C Then the doctor said, "Give him jug band music G7 C It seems to make him feel just fine" v v v v v v v v e|-----------------|------------------| B|-----------------|------------------| G|-----5-3---2-----|-----5-3----------| D|---2---------1-2-|---2--------------| A|-3---------------|-3-----------0-2--| E|-----------------|-----------3------| |----- x3 ------|
[Verse 2]
C So if you ever get sickly, get Sis to run quickly G7 To the dusty closet shelf and pull out a washboard, and play a guitar chord C And do a little do-it-yourself C And call on your neighbors to put down their labors D7 And come and play the hardware in time C 'Cause the doctor said, "Give him jug band music G7 C It seems to make him feel just fine"
[Refrain 2]
G7 I was floatin' in the ocean greased with suntan lotion C When I got wiped out by a beach boy G7 He was surfin' when he hit me but jumped off his board to get me C And he dragged me by the armpit like a child's toy C As we staggered into land with all the waiters eatin' sandwiches F He tried to mooch a towel from the hoi polloi F He emptied out his eardrums, I emptied out mine C And everybody knows that the very last line is C "The doctor said, 'Give him jug band music G7 C It seems to make him feel just fine'" v v v v v v v v e|-----------------|------------------| B|-----------------|------------------| G|-----5-3---2-----|-----5-3----------| D|---2---------1-2-|---2--------------| A|-3---------------|-3-----------0-2--| E|-----------------|-----------3------|
"yakety throw-up guitar" (6-string bass w/fuzz), during second bar above:
v v v v
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|---0-------------|
E|---------3---0---|
C
And the doctor said, "Give him jug band music
G7 C
It seems to make him feel just fine"
(C) C7
v v v v
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-----0---1-------|
E|---3---3---------|
(...fine)