Music By: Lightnin Hopkins
Mama got the rub board, sister got the tub
Theyre going round doing the rub-de-rub
Aint it crazy, aint it crazy
Aint 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
Aint it crazy, aint it crazy
Aint 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
Aint it crazy, aint it crazy
Aint 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
Aint it crazy, aint it crazy
Aint 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 McCrees 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 Aint It Crazy, Mighty Crazy or The Crazy Song.
