Jug Band Music
Healing Melodies: The Curative Power of Jug Band Music by Lucinda Williams
Lyrics
I was down in Savannah
I was in Savannah.
Eatn' cream and bananas
Eating cream and bananas.
When the heat just made me faint
The heat made me faint.
I began to get cross eyed
I started to get cross-eyed.
I thought I was lost
I felt lost.
I'd begun to see things as they ain't
I began to perceive things inaccurately.
As the relatives gathered to see what's the matter
Relatives gathered to check on me.
The doctor came to see was I fine
The doctor examined my condition.
But the doctor said give him jug band music
The doctor recommended jug band music.
It seems to make him feel just fine
Jug band music made me feel better.
I was told a little tail about a skinny as a rail
Heard a story about a skinny cowboy with a headache.
L.A. put cowboy with a headache
He was stuck in the desert trying to swap rats.
He was hung up in the desert swappin' rats
Struggling to get water with mud-caked knees.
And tryn' ta get a drink of water with his knees gettin' mud caked
He stumbled into Memphis, Tennessee.
And I'll tell you and exceptance how he stumbled into Memphis Tennessee
Hard-looking and covered in dust.
Lookin' hard and gettin' dust baked
Gave him water and wine, but his eyes didn't shine.
We gave 'im little water; a little bit of wine
The doctor prescribed jug band music.
He opened up his eyes but they didn't seem to shine
Jug band music made him feel better.
And the doctor said give him jug band music
It seems to make him feel just fine
So if you're sick, grab a washboard and play guitar.
So if you ever get sickly
The doctor recommends jug band music.
Get sister run quickly to the dusty closet shelf
Jug band music makes you feel better.
And pull out a washboard; and play a guitar chord
And do a little do it yourself
Floating in the ocean, greased with suntan lotion.
Call on your neighbors to put down their labors
Hit by a surfer who rescued me.
And come and play the hardware in time
Struggling to get a towel from the crowd.
'Cause the doctor said give him jug band music
Emptied eardrums, and everyone knows the last line is
It seems to make him feel just fine
The doctor recommends jug band music.
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 eatn' 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
The doctor recommends jug band music.
It seems to make him feel just fine
Jug band music makes you feel better.
And the doctor said give him jug band music
The doctor recommends jug band music.
It seems to make him feel just fine
Jug band music makes you feel better.
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