Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Ain't It Crazy [The Rub], artist - Grateful Dead. Album song Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead: Fillmore East, New York City, April 1971, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 19.10.1980
Record label: Grateful Dead
Song language: English
Ain't It Crazy [The Rub] |
Mama got the rub board, sister got the tub |
They’re going round doing the rub-de-rub |
Ain’t it crazy, ain’t it crazy |
Ain’t it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thing |
Two old maids, they was layin' in a bed |
One turned over and this is what she said |
Ain’t it crazy, ain’t it crazy |
Ain’t it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thing |
Yeah mama killed a chicken, thought it was a duck |
Put him on the table with his feet sticking up |
(Alternative: … with his feet turned up) |
Ain’t it crazy, ain’t it crazy |
Ain’t it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thing |
There was two old maids, layin' in the sand |
Each one wonderin' if the other was a man |
(Alternative: Each one wishing that the other was a man) |
Ain’t it crazy, ain’t it crazy |
Ain’t it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' at that thing |
Notes: |
This was played by the Dead a dozen times in 1970 and 1971, and before that in |
1964 by Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions before the Dead proper were formed. |
It seems clear that the Dead knew this song as «The Rub». |
In July 1964, |
for example, Weir introduces it by saying that Mr Pigpen McKernan is going to |
sing a Lightnin' Hopkins song — The Rub. |
But Lightnin' Hopkins recordings have |
it under the title «Ain't It Crazy», «Mighty Crazy» or «The Crazy Song.» |