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 dyin 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 slottin rats and tryin to get a drink of water with his knees a gettin mud caked and i ll tell you in a sentence how he stumbled into memphis tennessee hardly crawlin lookin dust baked we gave him 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 sis to 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 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 like a child s toy as we staggered into land with all the waders eatin sandwiches and tried to mooch a towel from the hoi polloi 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 