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Jug Band Music by The Lovin' Spoonful - Guitar Chords

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Version 1
            [Intro]

Bass (guitar enters 3rd bar):

   v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
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

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"

[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

And I'll tell you in a sentence how he stumbled in to Memphis,
                                    F
Tennessee, hardly crawlin', lookin' dust-baked

We gave him a 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"

(Repeat Intro)

[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

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

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

[Coda]

(Repeat bars 1 and 4 of intro)

"yakety throw-up guitar" (6-string bass w/fuzz), last bar:

   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)


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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