Your favorite "Hippie" lyrics...

[Jim Alfredson]

If you're going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a love-in there

In the streets of San Francisco

Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration

People in motion

There's a whole generation with a new explanation

People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

If you come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco

Summertime will be a love-in there

[Hot Ptah]

Snow cuts loose from the frozen

Until it joins with the african sea

In moving it changes its cold and its name

The reason I come and go is the same

Animal game for me

You call it rain

But the human name

Doesnt mean shit to a tree

If you dont mind heat in your river and

Fork tongue talking from me

Swim like an eel fantastic snake

Take my love when its free

Electric feel with me

You call it loud

But the human crowd

Doesnt mean shit to a tree

Change the strings and notes slide

Change the bridge and string shift down

Shift the notes and bride sings

Fire eating people

Rising toys of the sun

Energy dies without body warm

Icicles ruin your gun

Water my roots the natural thing

Natural spring to the sea

Sulphur springs make my body float

Like a ship made of logs from a tree

Redwoods talk to me

Say it plainly

The human name

Doesnt mean shit to a tree

Snow called water going violent

Damn the end of the stream

Too much cold in one place breaks

Thats why you might know what I mean

Consider how small you are

Compared to your scream

The human dream

Doesnt mean shit to a tree

[A Lark Ascending]

I walked into this bar

and the man refused;

He said, "We don't serve strangers

in blue suede shoes;

We don't give credit, and

We don't give way--

We have to think about what the people might say..

uh, you know what I mean..."

I said, "Sure, man"

Oh, he gave me a smile that was sickly and wet,

And I offered him one of my cigarettes.

He took it, afraid that he might appear rude,

Then proceeded to sell me some second class food.

Nice guy - meet 'em everywhere.. .

He said, "My oh my, I have suffered too long,

And this cigarette seems to be very strong;

I don't make the rules

I just get what I take

And I guess every rule was made to break.

You can take what you like, it won't hurt me

Cause I’m just working for the company."

From the green cigarette, He took a long drag,

And said, "I think I'll pick my travelling bag.

I’m tired of cheating, and wasting my head

And filling the boss's bags with bread.

I want to get out in the sun and rain,

And feel the wind on on skin again;

The world is large, and I've got time yet.

And, by the way, thanks for that cigarette..

Thank you very much."

"You know, I feel like a new man

Yes I do, I don't know why;

I’d just like to say

Thank you very much(indeed)

It's a beautiful day

I think I'll be on my way (right away)

I'd just like to say

Thank you very much.

Yes, I'm getting the hell out of here

Yes, I am - bye, bye.

That's the end of the message

Thank you very much.

Bye bye...

[A Lark Ascending]

This is the first verse

The first verse

The first

First verse

And this is the chorus

Or perhaps it's a bridge

Or just another part

Of the song that I am singing

This is the second verse

The second verse

The second

Second verse

And this is the chorus

Or perhaps it's a bridge

Or just another

Key

Change

Never mind

It doesn't hurt

It only means that I

Lost faith in this song

'Cause it won't help me reach you...

[Free For All]

Not to blow Bev's groove, but one of the nastiest lyrics from the psychedelic era was (IMHO)........

"Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye...."

It makes me want to yak. Technicolor yawn. Drive the big white bus.

[aparxa]

Viens petite fille dans mon comic strip

Viens faire des bull's, viens faire des WIP !

Des CLIP ! CRAP ! des BANG ! des VLOP ! et

des ZIP !

SHEBAM ! POW ! BLOP ! WIZZ !

J'distribue les swings et les uppercuts

Ca fait VLAM ! ça fait SPLATCH ! et ça

fait CHTUCK !

Ou bien BOMP ! ou HUMPF ! parfois même PFFF !

SHEBAM ! POW ! BLOP ! WIZZ !

Viens petite fill' dans mon comic strip

Viens faire des bull's, viens faire des WIP !

Des CLIP ! CRAP ! des BANG ! des VLOP ! et

des ZIP !

SHEBAM ! POW ! BLOP ! WIZZ !

Viens avec moi par dessus les buildings

Ca fait WHIN ! quand on s'envole et puis KLING !

Après quoi je fais TILT ! et ça fait BOING !

SHEBAM ! POW ! BLOP ! WIZZ !

Viens petite fill' dans mon comic strip

Viens faire des bull's, viens faire des WIP !

Des CLIP ! CRAP ! des BANG ! des VLOP ! et

des ZIP !

SHEBAM ! POW ! BLOP ! WIZZ !

N'aies pas peur bébé agrippe-toi CHRACK !

Je suis là CRASH ! pour te protéger TCHLACK !

Ferme les yeux CRACK ! embrasse-moi SMACK !

SHEBAM ! POW ! BLOP ! WIZZ !

SHEBAM ! POW ! BLOP ! WIZZZZZ

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=-RROsYP2MlY

[AllenLowe]

I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in

I found my mind in a brown paper bag within

I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high

I tore my mind on a jagged sky

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in

I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in

I got up so tight I couldn't unwind

I saw so much I broke my mind

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign

I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind

Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare

Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

Yeah yeah oh-yeah

[AllenLowe]

don't want to be a party pooper, but I don't want Alfredson to get in trouble - and this thread my be illegal (lyrics are copyrighted and in general you need permission to quote beyond fair use) -

[Niko]

I walked into this bar

and the man refused;

He said, "We don't serve strangers

in blue suede shoes;

We don't give credit, and

We don't give way--

We have to think about what the people might say..

uh, you know what I mean..."

I said, "Sure, man"

Oh, he gave me a smile that was sickly and wet,

And I offered him one of my cigarettes.

He took it, afraid that he might appear rude,

Then proceeded to sell me some second class food.

Nice guy - meet 'em everywhere.. .

He said, "My oh my, I have suffered too long,

And this cigarette seems to be very strong;

I don't make the rules

I just get what I take

And I guess every rule was made to break.

You can take what you like, it won't hurt me

Cause I’m just working for the company."

From the green cigarette, He took a long drag,

And said, "I think I'll pick my travelling bag.

I’m tired of cheating, and wasting my head

And filling the boss's bags with bread.

I want to get out in the sun and rain,

And feel the wind on on skin again;

The world is large, and I've got time yet.

And, by the way, thanks for that cigarette..

Thank you very much."

"You know, I feel like a new man

Yes I do, I don't know why;

I’d just like to say

Thank you very much(indeed)

It's a beautiful day

I think I'll be on my way (right away)

I'd just like to say

Thank you very much.

Yes, I'm getting the hell out of here

Yes, I am - bye, bye.

That's the end of the message

Thank you very much.

Bye bye...

People say that they want to be free

They look at him and they look at me

But it's only themselves they're wanting to see

And everybody knows about it

We talk all night and we're all turned on

We believe we heard him singing his song

Telling us all there was work to be done

And everyone sung a chorus of I am the walrus

Yes Disneyland has come to town

Everyone's dressed and standing around

Alice is wearing her sexiest gown

But she doesn't want you to look at her

Beautiful people are queuing to drown

They wait for the lifeguard to put on his crown

But he's up at the other end of town

Trying to talk to the mirror

The scientist talks and he knows what he means

He sits on the floor and has beautiful dreams

Then he gets brought down by a woman who screams

But he knows it's only a record… Oh yes it is

His brave new girl stops feeding the ants

And looks at him with her septic pants

She still knows how to make him dance

And forget about emancipation… it's just imagination

And you and I we sit and hum

We know something's got to come

And get us off our endless bum

There's probably one in the bathroom

Or even in the hall

I don't know anymore than you do

In fact I don't know anything at all

strange i always heard "busniland" instead of "disneyland"

[AllenLowe]

moderators?

[Shawn]

don't want to be a party pooper, but I don't want Alfredson to get in trouble - and this thread my be illegal (lyrics are copyrighted and in general you need permission to quote beyond fair use) -

Point taken, but there seems to be about 10,000 song lyrics database archives on the internet....

Sticking to snippets of lyrics shouldn't be beyond the realm of fair use. Any more than adding quotes from your favorite book or movie to a signature (yes, I'm guilty of that too).

...

back on topic, the lyrics you posted above I heard many times as a kid, one of my Mother's favorite songs.

[7/4]

"Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers...."

Peter Brown wrote great psychedelic lyrics!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

You can have anything you want

At Alice's Restaurant

(Covers a multitude of sins, that. Then)

I wanna kill! I wanna kill! I wanna kill!

You seem like just the type we need.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

And I like

It's one for you, nineteen for me.

MG

[kh1958]

And I like

It's one for you, nineteen for me.

MG

If I recall correctly, that' the truth, the highest British marginal tax rate at the time actually was 95%.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

And I like

It's one for you, nineteen for me.

MG

If I recall correctly, that' the truth, the highest British marginal tax rate at the time actually was 95%.

Indeed it was - and rightly so. So those fat cat hippie Beatles didn't want to provide their fair share of tax.

MG

[AllenLowe]

as long as nobody else is worried - here are two sets of lyrics from Donovan - easy to make fun of the guy (an idiot egomaniac in some ways) but he produced some great music and some great songs - and could write -

#1

How high the gulls fly

O'er Ilay

How sad the farm lad

deep in play

Felt like a grain on your sand

How well the sheep's bell

music makes

Roving the cliff

when fancy takes

Felt like a tide left me here

How blessed the forest

with birdsong

How neat the cut peat

laid so long

Felt like a seed on your land

#2

Dear Wind that shakes the barley free

Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill the sail

I a-weary wait upon the shore.

Forsake her not in times of storm

Protect her oaken beams from harm, fill her sail

I a-weary wait upon the shore.

Whither he be in Africa

or deep asleep in India, fill his dreams

I a-weary wait upon the shore.

Dear snow white gulls upon the wave

I, like you, am lamenting, for my love.

I a-weary cry upon the shore.

And in my chariot of sleep,

I ride the vast and dreamy deep deep sea.

I awake a-weary on the shore.

Seven years and Seven days,

no man has seen my woman ways, dear God.

I a-weary cry upon the shore.

Along the shingled beach I go

The wind about me as I make my way

to my weary dream upon my bed.

Dear Wind that shakes the barley free

Blow home my true love's ship to me, fill the sail.

I a-weary wait upon the shore

[AllenLowe]

and my favorite Donovan refrain:

here I sit the retired writer in the sun

The retired writer in the sun, and I'm

Blue, the retired writer in the sun

[JSngry]

Oh, hello Mr. Soul,

I dropped by

to pick up a reason

For the thought that I caught

that my head

is the event of the season

Why in crowds just a trace

of my face

could seem so pleasin'

I'll cop out to the change,

but a stranger

is putting the tease on.

I was down on a frown

when the messenger

brought me a letter

I was raised by the praise

of a fan

who said I upset her

Any girl in the world

could have easily

known me better

She said, You're strange,

but don't change,

and I let her.

In a while will the smile

on my face

turn to plaster?

Stick around while the clown

who is sick

does the trick of disaster

For the race of my head

and my face

is moving much faster

Is it strange I should change?

I don't know,

why don't you ask her?

[Joe]

First there is a mountain

Then there is no mountain

Then there is

*****

When I was a boy I thought about the times I'd be a man

I'd sit inside a bottle and pretend that I was in a can

In my lonely room I'd sit my mind in an ice cream cone

You can throw me if you wanna 'cause I'm a bone and I go

Oop-ip-ip oop-ip-ip, yeah!

If I don't start cryin' it's because that I have got no eyes

My father's in the fireplace and my dog lies hypnotized

Through a crack of light I was unable to find my way

Trapped inside a night but I'm a day and I go

Oop-ip-ip oop-ip-ip, yeah!

One... Two... Three... Four!

[Followed by the sound of a nuclear explosion]

*****

Chewin' on a piece of grass walkin' down the road

tell me, how long you gonna stay here Joe?

Some people say this town don't look good in snow

You don't care, I know.

Ventura Highway, in the sunshine

Where the days are longer

The nights are stronger than moonshine

You're gonna go I know

Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair

and the day surround your daylight there

Seasons cryin' no despair

Alligator lizards in the air

Wishin' on a fallin' star

Watchin' for the early train

Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain

Aw, come on Joe, you can always change your name

Thanks a lot son, just the same

Ventura Highway, in the sunshine

Where the days are longer

The nights are stronger than moonshine!

you're gonna go, I know

Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair

and the days surround your daylight there

seasons cryin' no despair

Alligator lizards in the air

in the air

[Doodle-loo-do-doot etc.]

*****

The continent of Atlantis was an island

which lay before the great flood

in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.

So great an area of land, that from her western shores

those beautiful sailors journeyed

to the South and the North Americas with ease,

in their ships with painted sails.

To the East Africa was a neighbour, across a short strait of sea miles.

The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of The Atlantian culture.

The antediluvian kings colonised the world

All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas

In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis.

Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth.

On board were the Twelve:

The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,

The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.

Though Gods they were -

And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind

Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new

Hail Atlantis!

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,

I wanna see you some day

My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,

My antediluvian baby,

My antediluvian baby, I love you, girl,

Girl, I wanna see you some day.

My antediluvian baby, oh yeah

I wanna see you some day, oh

My antediluvian baby.

My antediluvian baby, I wanna see you

My antediluvian baby, gotta tell me where she gone

I wanna see you some day

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, oh yeah

Oh glub glub, down down, yeah

Edited June 6, 2008 by Joe

[Neal Pomea]

Never been a sinner, I never sinned

I got a friend in Jesus

So you know that when I die

He's gonna set me up with

The spirit in the sky

Oh set me up with the spirit in the sky

That's where I'm gonna go when I die

When I die and they lay me to rest

I'm gonna go to the place that's the best

Go to the place that's the best

Jesus Freak Norman Greenbaum

[Shawn]

I knew that Joe would hit on the Porpoise Song!

[Robert J]

Drop your silver in my tambourine

Help a poor man fill his pretty dream

Give me pennies I'll take anything

Now listen while I play

My green tambourine

Watch the jingle jangle start to chime

Reflections of the music that is mine

When you drop a coin you'll hear it sing

Now listen while I play

My green tambourine

Drop a dime before I walk away

Any song you want I'll gladly play

Money feeds my music machine

Now listen while I play

My green tambourine

[Robert J]

songs from an (underappreciated) album / artist

Yeah, said it's all right

I won't forget

All the times I've waited patiently for you

And you'll do just what you choose to do

And I will be alone again tonight my dear

Yeah, I heard a funny thing

Somebody said to me

You know that I could be in love with almost everyone

I think that people are

The greatest fun

And I will be alone again tonight my dear

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At my house I've got no shackles

You can come and look if you want to

In the halls you'll see the mantles

Where the light shines dim all around you

And the streets are paved with gold and if

Someone asks you, you can call my name

You are just a thought that someone

Somewhere somehow feels you should be here

And its so for real to touch

To smell, to feel, to know where you are here

And the streets are paved with gold and if

Someone asks you, you can call my name

You can call my name

I hear you calling my name yeah all right now

By the time that I'm through singing

The bells from the schools of walls will be ringing

More confusions, blood transfusions

The news today will be the movies for tomorrow

And the waters turned to blood, and if

You dont think so

Go turn on your tub

And it its mixed with mud

You'll see it turn to gray

And you can call my name

I hear you call my name

--------------------------------------------

Well I remember when you used to look so good

And I did everything that I possibly could for you

We used to ride around all over town

But they're puttin you down for bein around with me

But you can go ahead if you want to

cause I aint got no papers on you

In the middle of the summer I had a job being a plumber

Just to pass till the fall it was you I wanna ball all day

Ah-we were walkin along, honey, hand in hand

Im a-thinkin of you, mama, when youre thinkin of another man

But you can go ahead if you want to

cause I ain't got no papers on you

(no, I dont I aint got no papers on myself)

All alone on the bone when I didnt have a home

When I saw the way I was and I knew where I was supposed to be

I was twitchin so I turned and its really hard to learn

That everyone I saw was just another part of me

But you can go ahead if you want to

cause nobodys got no papers on you

(no, babe, its just a falsehood)

[AllenLowe]

there once was a man from nantucket...