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Going to San Francisco

from How I Learned to Love the Freaks by Vinny Peculiar

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A couple hitch hike across the USA in search of a better life in search of utopia, its 1967. Too soon their dream dies but their ideas live on forever...

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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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from How I Learned to Love the Freaks, track released September 15, 2023
Alan Wilkes - writer, vocal, guitars, piano, harmonica, drum prog, production
Rob Steadman - electric piano
Dave Draper - production, drum prog,

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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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