The Lovin' Spoonful – Jug Band Music (Ukulele)

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[Intro]
   1   2   3   4     1   2   3   4
A|-----3-1---0-----|-----3-1----------|
E|---0-------------|---0--------------|
C|-0-----------3h4-|-0----------------|
g|-----------------|-----------0-2-4--|
  |----- x3 ------|             (I was)

************************************ | h hammer on ************************************ [Verse 1]

      C
I was down in Savannah eatin' cream and bananas

         G7
When the heat just made me faint

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

                            C
Begun to see things as they ain't

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"

[Verse 2]

      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

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

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

We gave him little water, a little bit of wine

   C
He opened up his eyes, but they didn't seem to shine

Then the doctor said, "Give him jug band music

   G7                          C
It seems to make him feel just fine"

   1   2   3   4     1   2   3    4
A|-----3-1---0-----|-----3-1------------|
E|---0-------------|---0----------------|
C|-0-----------3h4-|-0------------------|
g|-----------------|-----------0--2--4--|
  |------x3-------|           (so if you)

************************************ | h hammer on ************************************ [Verse 3]

          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

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"

[Verse 4]

      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

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

                                   F
'n tried to mooch a towel from the hoi polloi

He emptied out his eardrums, I emptied out mine

    C
And everybody knows that the very last line is

"The doctor said, 'Give him jug band music

   G7                          C
It seems to make him feel just fine'"

[Outro]
   1   2   3   4     1   2   3   4
A|-----3-1---0-----|-----3-1------------|
E|---0-------------|---0----------------|
C|-0-----------3h4-|-0------------------|
g|-----------------|-----------0-2---4--|
                                (and the)

************************************ | h hammer on ************************************

        C
And the doctor said, "Give him jug band music

   G7                          C      C7
It seems to make him feel just fine"

   1   2   3   4
A|-3---0---1-------|
E|-0-3---3-0-------|
C|-0-------0-------|
g|-0-------0-------|
  (fine)