"Ain’t It Crazy" (Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins) AKA "The Rub"
This riotously raunchy Pigpen vehicle steeped in sexual innuendo was one of the earliest tunes in the Grateful Dead's repertoire, one they drew from their embryonic jug band, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. Lightnin' Hopkins is credited with the song's authorship but its roots lie in vaudeville at the very latest and most probably in the murk of minstrelsy.
Grateful Dead
Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead (2000)
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Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions/'64 (1998)
Lightnin' Hopkins
Hootin' The Blues (1962)
Lightnin! (1990)
The Complete Prestige/’63 (1991)
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http://new.music.yahoo.com/lovin-sam-theard/tracks/rubbin-on-that-darned-old-thing-rub-that-thing--23429366Singles:
Oscar's Chicago Swingers (1936)
State Street Swingers (1936)
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Ain't It Crazy (The Rub) Lightnin' Hopkins) E7 Well, mama got the rub board, sister got the tub E7 They're goin' around doing the rub, the rub A7 E7 Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy B7 A7 E7 B7 Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' at that thing. Two old maids, they was layin’ in the bed One turned over and this is what she said, Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' at that thing. Mama killed a chicken, thought he was a duck Put him on the table with his feet sticking up Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' at that thing. There was two old ladies layin’ in the sand, Each one wonderin’ if the other was a man Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' at that thing. Well I see that woman goin behind the hill I'm gonna find that girl, I'm gonna do my will Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' at that thing. Well I feel so good, well I feel so fine All I gotta do is drink that wine Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' at that thing. I said the little old rooster saw the little old hen He said, "I’ve had no lovin’ since God knows when" Ain't it crazy, ain't it crazy Ain't it crazy one day keep on rubbin' at that thing.