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Say goodbye to the summer of love
Its goodbye Paris, San Francisco & goodbye London
Goodbye Kool-Aid Acid Test
Goodbye Ken, goodbye Allen and goodbye to all the rest
Goodbye Bob and Richard too
Goodbye Jack, goodbye Joni we’re all gonna miss you
At the death of the counter culture
Beautiful people holding hands peace n love n rock n roll bands
Ban the bomb stop the war it’s what we’re all fighting for
Not the death of the counterculture
In unison we sang such a sweet refrain
Of stick it to man in the hard rain
But the establishment plays such a long game
Tomorrow never knows it can never be the same
It’s the death of the counterculture
There’s a revolution in the head she said she said she said she said
Kick out the jams break down the door it’s what we’re all fighting for
It’s the death of the counterculture
And it’s a goodbye David
Goodbye Jimi
Goodbye Neil
Goodbye Chrissy
Bobby was a Ted Tammy was a rocker
Judy was playgirl and a real showstopper
Peter was hippy a protest singer
Jordan was a punk rock gun slinger
At the death of the counterculture
It’s the death of the counterculture…
Death death death death death death death death,,,
The death of the counterculture
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Going to San Francisco
03:29
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There were voices calling inside everybody’s head
I bought velvet loon-pants and book about Tibet
Hitch hiked out of Texas due north
I heard a song on the radio for what it’s worth
And my father he disowned me, and my mother made a fuss
Later that night I caught a greyhound bus
Met my girlfriend at the station there were other pilgrims there
Smoked a refer on the sidewalk met a kid with purple hair
Someone gave me a poncho David Crosby style
But I left it on the bus and it made my girlfriend smile
And then came the acid and it took me by surprise
My watch it started melting there we rainbow’s in my eyes
The closer we got the more the numbers grew
We spent the night in a gallery listening to
A sombre protest singer out to make a million bucks
From writing pop music yeah we all thought he was nuts
As the bus rolled into town and we headed for the Haight
The people they waved us on, and we saw the Golden Gate
There was a stall on the entry, and it said FREE FOOD
And a man in Jesus sandals serving lentils in the nude
I finally called home a week after we arrived
From a call box on the Haight it felt good to be alive
My father wouldn’t speak to me he handed Mom the phone
She said now just be careful this will always be your home
There were trams and bums and dive bars hippies everywhere
We slept out in the park with revolution in the air
We had to travel out of town to find a place to crash
In a commune up country in the woods outside Fairfax
When the war came to an end, we were working on the land
And we made love to strangers then it all got out of hand…
It all got out of hand man…
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Peace and Love
She said we have the power to overcome
A love of power then then we’ll be done
As children dance in the sun
Peace and Love
She said this is your chance you need to make a move
Before the its all too late
Cause there’s a lot to do and we can change the world
I met her at the rally they were tearing down a statue
She said you’re either for me or I’m against you
And we talked about injustice and the future of the planet
Then she sat outside Pete’s Café wrote a poem all about it…
Peace and Love
Peace and love
She said let’s go off travelling let’s get away
And we can see the world together
Now what do you say and I said well I’ll think about it
She left me the rally and she took herself back home
Then she said she still felt angry and she needed to be alone
And I never saw her again that’s the way it goes sometimes
Right out the blue nothing between the lines
Peace and Love
Awake to dream when dreams are never big enough
To change the way you feel best turn the music up
Peace and love
The hippies left the party the punks were way to angry…
Cause there’s a lot to do and we can change the world…
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Headshop
02:55
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We hang out at the head shop
Just opposite the bus stop
Its psychedelic lift off
And its gonna blow your mind
Tarot cards and a hooker pipes
Dream catchers wind chimes
Herbal tea scented candles
And multi coloured plastic sandals
Glow sticks and lava lamps
Peace patches and tie dye pants
Man pouch in soft leather
Vaping sticks go on pick any flavour
We’ve got them all
I knew the owner Geraldine
We had a thing when we were 17
Sometimes I wonder what might have been
If you know what I mean
It was a really cool scene man
A Game of thrones jig saw
Joss sticks all the way from Jaipur
Natty threads and rag rugs
Naturally high say no to drugs
Essential aroma therapy
And books about magikal energy
Victorian bottles African carvings
Lord of the Rings the trilogy’s meanings so many meanings
I used to come here after school
And they let you hang out it was really cool
Once the girl who worked there made me coffee
And we talked about music said her brother was a hippy
Hippy yeah she was pretty
Come on meet me at the Head Shop
It’s just opposite the bus stop
For a psychedelic lift off
That’s gonna blow your mind
Meet me at the head shop
Just opposite the bus stop
We don’t need to go to Woodstock
This one’s gonna to blow your mind
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Ashram Curtains
04:04
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Behind the eastern drapes a silent yogi meditates
And women listen to their breathing
Reflect on this experience a book of calm omnipotence
Classes end and students leaving
The body temple and the perfect health
Get in touch with your inner self well-being is believing
Is it you behind the ashram
You, behind the ashram
You, behind the ashram
She booked the flights to India on a tour bus out of Deli
Checked the time at home and what was on the telly
Next morning bright n breezy on the patio stretching for the sky
That’s when she first caught his eye
Then came the late-night invitations she left the door ajar
He bought the nuts and the caviar
Is it true behind the ashram?
You behind the ashram
You behind the ashram curtains
You can tell me what happened and I promise not to judge
I know you’ve been unhappy I know because because
I can feel it in the distance a sadness beyond despair
But I forgive you everything whatever’s broken we can repair…yeah
She came home later in the year at first I didn’t recognise her
Then she told me all her plans
She gathered up a few things photos of the kids her favourite earrings
So many changes to her feelings…
Behind the ashram
You, behind the ashram
You, behind the ashram
You, behind the ashram curtains
And should you change your mind
I’ll be waiting right here
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Hey
Hippy kids who are ya
Hippy Kids who loves ya
Hippy kids who needs ya now
Freedom is a fickle friend she only went and let you down again
Sold you on to the corporation stole your ideas and your imagination
No boundaries and no school no discipline and no rules
Hey hey
Drop out n disappear like you were never really here were you?
Hippy kids who are ya
Hippy Kids who loves ya
Hippy kids where are ya now
On a spaceship to the moon good trip bad trip any trip will do
Waiting for the show to go on you put a sunflower in the barrel of a gun
Vida dreams of revolution Bobby’s on the road again
Hey hey
Andy says he loves confusion wants to start all over again and again and again and again
Hippy kids who are ya
Hippy kids who loves ya
Hippy kids where are you now
Hippy kids we want ya
Hippy kids we need ya
Hippy kids where are you now?
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There were a couple freaks in the village
When I was growing up they used to walk past our house
Long hair bangles and cheese cloth shirts
They were older than us but not by much
They carried record bags they were mysterious
And my dad was not impressed
But my Mum said she knew them from the college where she worked
Said they were nice lads we said yeah
To me they seemed strange aloof and remote and completely indifferent
They didn’t play football they rarely spoke to anyone
We didn’t know their names or where they were from…
One day we were messing around outside the paper shop
With some of the hard lads from Cobnall Road
And the freaks walked past minding their own business
And then out of the blue someone shouted ‘what are you looking at’
And before we knew it, we were chasing them across the fields to the waste ground behind the new estate
We caught up with the freaks of course we did and they were sadly resigned to their fate
There’s an ugly feeling when you join the mob
And it’s brutal cruel and infectious
We all piled in there was kicking and screaming and
We set about the freaks and then we set about leaving
When the ambulance arrived, we were already gone
Hiding in Ronnie Spuds’ caravan
It was covered in page three pictures from the sun
With a girl for every persuasion
Thank god those freaks were ok bruises and cuts a little shaken up
My mother asked me was I involved at all
I lied I said no what would I do something like that for ?
And the Freaks were never seen again
They never pressed charges I was grateful to them
Off to university end of the year
To study for something no one had heard of before
Freaks
And how I learned to love them
This one’s for the Freaks
Freaks…
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Peter and the Rainbow
04:11
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Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
We came in peace we should have known
We came together we came alone
To understand a better way
Came to explore we came to stay
We came so near we came so far
A sleeping bag and an acoustic guitar
Hitch hiked across the USA
Nothing could stop us or get in our way
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rain
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rain
Out of the darkness and into the light
We taught our children we taught them right
We came of age Aquariusly
We came in peace we came in harmony we came to be to be free
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
And we closed in on mother earth
And we gave thanks for all we were worth
But the very best of our intentions
Never suited those high faluting conventions
The poets spoke in tongues of fire
We were the new age guns for hire
So many people gathered around
Cause you have to get lost before you get found
You have to get lost
Peter and the rainbow
When things were good they were very very good
But when we looked away it was over
And when we were good we were very very good
But when we messed up they said told ya so
I told ya I told ya
Peter and the rainbow…
Peter and the rain
It’s not the ending you might have expected
Peter left the camp he defected
Wrote show made a lot of money
Now he’s living in LA with playboy bunny
View of the hills the canyon and the ocean
It’s a very cold place devoid of all emotion
It’s a very cold place devoid of all emotion
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
It’s a very cold place
Peter and the rainbow
It’s a very cold place
It’s a very cold place
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
We came in peace we should have known
We came together we came alone
To understand a better way
Came to explore we came to stay
We came so near we came so far
A sleeping bag and an acoustic guitar
Hitch hiked across the USA
Nothing could stop us or get in our way
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rain
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rain
Out of the darkness and into the light
We taught our children we taught them right
We came of age Aquariusly
We came in peace we came in harmony we came to be to be free
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
And we closed in on mother earth
And we gave thanks for all we were worth
But the very best of our intentions
Never suited those high faluting conventions
The poets spoke in tongues of fire
We were the new age guns for hire
So many people gathered around
Cause you have to get lost before you get found
You have to get lost
Peter and the rainbow
When things were good they were very very good
But when we looked away it was over
And when we were good we were very very good
But when we messed up they said told ya so
I told ya I told ya
Peter and the rainbow…
Peter and the rain
It’s not the ending you might have expected
Peter left the camp he defected
Wrote show made a lot of money
Now he’s living in LA with playboy bunny
View of the hills the canyon and the ocean
It’s a very cold place devoid of all emotion
It’s a very cold place devoid of all emotion
Peter and the rainbow
Peter and the rainbow
It’s a very cold place
Peter and the rainbow
It’s a very cold place
It’s a very cold place
Peter and the rainbow
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All Property is Theft
04:25
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Grew his hair and bought a chillum pipe
Found himself in another life
In a peace camp outside of Monmouth
The Welsh Connection just sign on for the dole cheque
Self-sufficient love of the land
Playing guitar in a local band
Fell in love with a yoga teacher
And he’d do anything anything to please her
I mean anything, anything
Went to London on a demo
Lit a six-foot papier Mache joint in Soho
Got arrested by the fuzz
Old Bailey trial three months in the scrubs
Went to war against the state
Read Albert Camus and William Blake
Started teaching at the college
Radical visions alternative knowledge
And all property is theft
Moved up north into the lazy city
Showpiece of the nitty gritty
Where he failed to impress
Took it all to heart and it left him in a mess
Left him in a right bloody mess
When the carnival was over
He returned to Worcestershire
And when I asked him why he said
There’s nothing going on down there
And all property is theft
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Once upon a time a long time ago
All the kids took off for San Francisco
To a multi coloured happening of peace and love
And they frightened the establishment with their mind-expanding drugs and their
Flower Power take off your clothes and dance
Flower Power consciousness enlightenment experience
Happenings at Golden Gate Park
Gigs with the Dead at the Forum after dark
Allen Ginsberg he’s a poet and you can be one too if you did but know it….
Flower Power without a shadow of doubt
Flower Power tune in turn on drop out
Looking back at those incredible times
Power to the people in ever changing times
And what comes around comes around my friend,
And right now looks like it’s happening again
Flower Power are you till learning to fly
Flower Power we never said goodbye
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Vinny Peculiar Worcester, UK
Vinny Peculiar variously described as – ‘An under sung national treasure’ [UNCUT Magazine]– a warm hearted Morrissey [Q Magazine] and ‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ IRISH TIMES ... more
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