John Sebastian - Jug Band Music lyrics

I was down in Savannah Eatin' Cream and Bananas When the heat just made me faint I began to get crosseyed I thought I was lost I'd begun to see things as they ain't. As the relatives gathered to see what's the matter The doctor came to see was I dyin' But the doctor said give him jug band music, It seems to make him feel just fine. I was told a little tail about a skinny as a rail Eight-foot cowboy with a headache He was hung up in the desert swappin' fightin' rats And tryn' ta get a drink of water with his knees gettin' mud caked And I'll tell you in a sentence how he stumbled into Memphis Tennessee Lookin' hard and gettin' hardly crawlin' lookin' dust baked. We gave 'I'm little water; a little bit of wine He opened up his eyes but they didn't seem to shine And the doctor said give him jug band music It seems to make him feel just fine So if you ever get sickly Get sister run quickly to the dusty closet shelf And pull out a washboard; and play a guitar chord And do a little do it yourself. Call on your neighbors to put down their labors And come and play the hardware in time harp* anytime Cause the doctor said give him jug band music It seems to make him feel just fine 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 arm just like a child's toy As we staggered into land with all the waders eatn' sandwiches We tried to mooch a towel from the harbor line 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 And the doctor said give him jug band music It seems to make him feel just fine. * "harp" in this context refers to the harmonica, also known as the "blues harp", a diffence in playing technique