I was down in Savannah eatin'
cream and bananas
When the heat just made me faint
I began to get cross -eyed,
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'd 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 -ass rail -eight -foot
cowboy with a headache
He was hung up in the desert
swatting rats and trying to get a drink of
water with his knees a -getting mud cake
And I'll tell you in a sentence
how he stumbled into Memphis,
Tennessee
Hardly crawling, looking dust, babe
We gave him a little water, a little bit of wine
He opened up his eyes,
but they didn't seem to shine
And the doctor said
give them jug band music
It seems to make them feel just fine
So if you ever get sickly
Get cysts to run quickly
To the dusty closet shell
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.
Because the doctor said
give them jug band music.
It seems to make them feel just fine.
I was floating in the ocean,
greasing suntan lotion
when I got wiped out by a beach boy.
He was surfing when he hit me,
but jumped off his board
He tried get me
and he dragged me by the
armpit like a child's toy
As we staggered in the land
with all the waiters eating sandwiches
He tried to mooch a towel
from the hawaii boy
He emptied out his eardrums,
I emptied out mine
An d everybody knows
that the very last line
Is the doctor said, give up jellyfan music
It seems to make them feel just fine
And the doctor said,
give them judge band music,
it seems to make them feel just fine.