Key: C
Introduction:
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I was down in Savannah, eatin' cream and bananas
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When the heat just made me faint
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I began to get cross-eyed, I thought I was lost, I'd
C
Begun to see things as they ain't
C
As the relatives gathered to see what's the matter
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The doctor came to see was I dyin'
C
But the doctor said, "Give him jug band music
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It seems to make him feel just fine"
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I was told a little tale about a skinny-as-a-rail
C
Eight-foot cowboy with a headache
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He was hung up in the desert swattin' rats and tryin' to get
C
A drink of water with his knees a-gettin' mud-caked
C
And I'll tell you in a sentence how he stumbled in to Memphis,
F
Tennessee, hardly crawlin', lookin' dust-baked
F
We gave him a little water, a little bit of wine
C
He opened up his eyes, but they didn't seem to shine
C
Then the doctor said, "Give him jug band music
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It seems to make him feel just fine"
So if you ever get sickly, get Sis to run quickly