The Lovin’ Spoonful : Jugband Music (Hums)

 How did I find out about Jugband Music . . . . . . . I think I identified with this song as I was a sickly child!

The doctor said give him jug band music it seems to make him feel just fine 

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 died

But the doctor said give him jug band music,

It seems to make him feel just fine 

I was told a little tale about a skinny as a rail

Eight foot cowboy with a headache

He was hung up in the desert swappin' rats

And tryin' ta get a drink of water with his knees an'gettin' mud caked

And I'll tell you every sentence how he stumbled into Memphis Tennessee

Hardly crawlin', lookin' dust baked

We gave 'im 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 try a little do it yourself

Call on your neighbours to put down their labours

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 

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 arm just like a child's toy

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

We tried to mooch a towel from the Hoi Poloi

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 

Songwriter: JOHN SEBASTIAN

a favourite teenage album Hums By the Lovin’ Spoonful