Tablature jug band music - The Lovin Spoonful

          



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  Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:49:36 -0500

  From: Andrew Rogers <rogers@hi.com>

  Subject: ./l/lovin_spoonful/jug_band_music.crd

  

                              "Jug Band Music"

                              (John Sebastian)

  

  Intro:

  

  	bass [guitar enters 3rd bar]:

  

  	 v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v

  	-----5-3---2-----|-----5-3---------

  	---2---------1-2-|---2-------------

  	-3---------------|-3-----------0-2-

  	-----------------|-----------3-----

  	 <---- 3X ----->

  

  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"

  

  [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:

  

  	 v   v   v   v

  	-----------------

  	-----------------

  	-----------------

  	-----------------

  	---0-------------

  	---------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

  	-----------------

  	-----------------

  	-----------------

  	-----------------

  	-----0---1-------

  	---3---3---------

  	(...fine)

  

  

  -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

   


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 Jug band music, de The lovin spoonful 

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