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 formedIt 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"