Lightnin’ Hopkins
Ain’t It Crazy (The Rub) (Live at Fillmore East NYC April 1971)
[Verse 1]
Mama got the rub board, sister got the tub
They're going around doing the rub-de-rub

[Chorus]
Ain’t it crazy? Ain't it crazy?
Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin’ that thang

[Verse 2]
Two old maids, they was layin' in a bed
One turned over and this is what she said

[Chorus]
Ain't it crazy? Ain't it crazy?
Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thang

[Verse 3]
Mama killed a chicken and thought it was a duck
Put him on the table with his feet sticking up

[Chorus]
Ain't it crazy? Ain't it crazy?
Ain’t it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin’ that thang

[Instrumental Break]
[Harmonica solo]
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 4]
There was two old maids, layin' in the sand
Each one wishing that the other was a man

[Chorus]
Ain’t it crazy? Ain't it crazy?
Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' at that thang

[Verse 5]
Mama got the rub board, sister got the tub
They’re going around doing the rub-de-rub

[Chorus]
You know it got to be crazy; ain't it crazy?
Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thang

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 6]
Mama killed a chicken and thought it was a duck
And she laid him on the table with his feet sticking up

[Chorus]
Ain't it crazy? Ain't it crazy?
Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' that thang
[Instrumental Break]

Two old maids, they was layin' in the bed
One turned over and this what she said

[Chorus]
Ain't it crazy? Ain't it crazy?
Ain't it crazy one day, to keep on rubbin' at that thang

[Instrumental]

[Outro]
Could I have a, could I have a follow spot, please? (Hit that man) (Hit that man with a spot, hit it, blap, hit me, spot.) There you are, there you are. This man just presented me with this, uh (Pussy willow) pussy willow. (Far out.) And we're gonna respond in kind by doing our most requested number