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Little Brown Jug
1869 – Joseph Eastburn Winner / Glenn Miller

Me and my wife live all alone
In a little log hut, we’re all our own;
She loves gin and I love rum
And don’t we have a lot of fun!

Chorus:
Ha, ha, ha, you and me
Little brown jug, don’t I love thee!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me
Little brown jug, don’t I love thee!

When I go toiling on the farm
I take the little jug under my arm;
Place it under a shady tree
Little brown jug, ’tis you and me. ‘

‘Tis you that makes me friends and foes
‘Tis you that makes me wear old clothes;
But, seeing you’re so near my nose
Tip her up and down she goes

If all the folks in Adam’s race
Were gathered together in one place
Then I’d prepare to shed a tear (I’d let them go without a tear)
Before I’d part from you, my dear

If I’d a cow that gave such milk
I’d dress her in the finest silk;
Feed her up on oats and hay
And milk her twenty times a day

I bought a cow from Farmer Jones
And she was nothing but skin and bones;
I fed her up as fine as silk
She jumped the fence and strained her milk

And when I die don’t bury me at all
Just pickle my bones in alcohol;
I’d a bottle o’ booze at my head and feet
And then I know that I will keep

The rose is red, my nose is too
The violets’ blue and so are you;
And yet, I guess, before I stop
We’d better take another drop

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About this Little Brown Jug lead sheet

This is the jazz lead sheet for Little Brown Jug, written by Joseph Eastburn Winner / Glenn Miller in 1869 — the melody with chord symbols above it, the way it appears in a Real Book. The chart is notated in Db major and in 4/4 time. Read it here for free, transpose it to any key — B♭, E♭ or bass clef included — and play it back to hear the form before you play it yourself.

Composer
Joseph Eastburn Winner / Glenn Miller
Year
1869
Key
Db major
Time signature
4/4
Genre
Jazz
Format
Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
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