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Jug Band Music

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Step 1 / 49Position: 2
1 index2 middle3 ring4 pinkyO open
The bass plays the intro; the guitar enters 3rd time through playing the same notes an octave higher.
[Intro]
v v v v v v v v
e|-----------------|------------------|
B|-----------------|------------------|
G|-----5-3---2-----|-----5-3----------|
D|---2---------1-2-|---2--------------|
A|-3---------------|-3-----------0-2--|
E|-----------------|-----------3------|
|----- x3 ------|
[Verse 1]
I was Cdown in Savannah, eatin' cream and bananas
When the G7heat just made me faint
I beG7gan to get cross-eyed, I thought I was lost, I'd
Begun to see things as they Cain't
As the Crelatives gathered to see what's the matter
The doctor came to see was I D7dyin'
But the Cdoctor said, "Give him jug band music
It G7seems to make him feel just Cfine"
[Refrain 1]
I was G7told a little tale about a skinny-as-a-rail
Eight-foot cowboy with a Cheadache
He was G7hung up in the desert swattin' rats and tryin' to get
A drink of water with his knees a-gettin' Cmud-caked
And I'll Ctell you in a sentence how he stumbled in to Memphis,
Tennessee, hardly crawlin', lookin' Fdust-baked
We Fgave him a little water, a little bit of wine
He Copened up his eyes, but they didn't seem to shine
Then the Cdoctor said, "Give him jug band music
It G7seems to make him feel just Cfine"
v v v v v v v v
e|-----------------|------------------|
B|-----------------|------------------|
G|-----5-3---2-----|-----5-3----------|
D|---2---------1-2-|---2--------------|
A|-3---------------|-3-----------0-2--|
E|-----------------|-----------3------|
|----- x3 ------|
[Verse 2]
So if you Cever get sickly, get Sis to run quickly
To the G7dusty closet shelf and pull out a washboard, and play a guitar chord
And do a little do-it-yourCself
And Ccall on your neighbors to put down their labors
And come and play the hardware in D7time
'Cause the Cdoctor said, "Give him jug band music
It G7seems to make him feel just Cfine"
[Refrain 2]
I was G7floatin' in the ocean greased with suntan lotion
When I got wiped out by a Cbeach boy
He was G7surfin' when he hit me but jumped off his board to get me
And he dragged me by the armpit like a child's Ctoy
As we Cstaggered into land with all the waiters eatin' sandwiches
He tried to mooch a towel from the Fhoi polloi
He Femptied out his eardrums, I emptied out mine
And Ceverybody knows that the very last line is
"The Cdoctor said, 'Give him jug band music
It G7seems to make him feel just Cfine'"
v v v v v v v v
e|-----------------|------------------|
B|-----------------|------------------|
G|-----5-3---2-----|-----5-3----------|
D|---2---------1-2-|---2--------------|
A|-3---------------|-3-----------0-2--|
E|-----------------|-----------3------|
"yakety throw-up guitar" (6-string bass w/fuzz), during second bar above:
v v v v
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|---0-------------|
E|---------3---0---|
And the Cdoctor said, "Give him jug band music
It G7seems to make him feel just Cfine"
(C) C7  
v v v v
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-----0---1-------|
E|---3---3---------|
(...fine)
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