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Sugar Magnolia Lyrics
Sugar Magnolia blossom's blooming
Head's all empty and I don't care
Saw my baby down by the river
Knew she'd have to come up soon for air
Sweet blossom come on under the willow
We can have high times if you'll abide
We can discover the wonders of nature
Rolling in the rushes down by the riverside
She's got everything delightful
She's got everything I need
Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double
Pays my ticket when I speed
She come skimming through rays of violet
She can wade in a drop of dew
She don't come and I don't follow
Waits backstage while I sing to you
She can dance a Cajun rhythm
Jump like a Willys in four wheel drive
She's a summer love in the spring, fall and winter
She can make happy any man alive
Sugar magnolia
Ringin' that blue bell
Caught up in sunlight
Come on out singing
I'll walk you in the sunshine
Come on honey, come along with me
She's got everything delightful
She's got everything I need
A breeze in the pines in the summer night moonlight
Crazy in the sunlight yes indeed
Sometimes when the cuckoo's crying
When the moon is halfway down
Sometimes when the night is dying
I take me out and I wander round
I wander round
Sunshine daydream
Walk you the tall trees
Going where the wind goes
Blooming like a red rose
Breathing more freely
Light out singing
I'll walk you in the morning sunshine
Sunshine daydream
Walk you in the sunshine
Head's all empty and I don't care
Saw my baby down by the river
Knew she'd have to come up soon for air
We can have high times if you'll abide
We can discover the wonders of nature
Rolling in the rushes down by the riverside
She's got everything I need
Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double
Pays my ticket when I speed
She can wade in a drop of dew
She don't come and I don't follow
Waits backstage while I sing to you
Jump like a Willys in four wheel drive
She's a summer love in the spring, fall and winter
She can make happy any man alive
Ringin' that blue bell
Caught up in sunlight
Come on out singing
I'll walk you in the sunshine
Come on honey, come along with me
She's got everything I need
A breeze in the pines in the summer night moonlight
Crazy in the sunlight yes indeed
When the moon is halfway down
Sometimes when the night is dying
I take me out and I wander round
I wander round
Walk you the tall trees
Going where the wind goes
Blooming like a red rose
Breathing more freely
Light out singing
I'll walk you in the morning sunshine
Sunshine daydream
Walk you in the sunshine
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To all of you who think the dead is just about pot and acid, go F*ck yourselves. This is a beautiful song (Check it out on Europe '72, absolutely beautiful.) I may only be 16 and have never been blessed to see em with jerry but even I know they were about more than just dope. Sure, there was pot, and alot of it, sure there was alotta acid. but not everything has to be about drugs. This (while no doubt does contain drug refrences,) song conjurs up images of carefree summer days spent with a beautiful girl, and as "Sugar_Magnolia" said, ""Its about a girl who has yet to reach self actualization but she is coming around and will soon get there, but he seess her as a beautiful person who still brings light to everyones day even though she doesnt yet realize who she is."" So thank you to all those who know that music from the 60's and 70's goes deeper than a buncha pot smokin acid droppin long haird hippies and can have a deeper more beautiful meaning
To deadhead21 I appoligize, peoples ignorance really can just get on my nerves. I post this in retaliation to those who chalk everything from the 60-70s to be drugs.
To deadhead21 I appoligize, peoples ignorance really can just get on my nerves. I post this in retaliation to those who chalk everything from the 60-70s to be drugs.
The meanings are up for us to decided, but please dont just blindly say drugs, thats just stupid
The meanings are up for us to decided, but please dont just blindly say drugs, thats just stupid
u are exactly right! Most young ppl tho associate them and all the their songs with drugs and the 60s but these idiotic young ppl fail to get is the hippies has a deeper meaning and they cared about things, the environment politics OTHER PPL. Everyone assumes it all about getting effed up outta ur mind and gettin naked! Thanks for showing me that some young ppl are all idiots and just wanna get high!
u are exactly right! Most young ppl tho associate them and all the their songs with drugs and the 60s but these idiotic young ppl fail to get is the hippies has a deeper meaning and they cared about things, the environment politics OTHER PPL. Everyone assumes it all about getting effed up outta ur mind and gettin naked! Thanks for showing me that some young ppl are all idiots and just wanna get high!
There was SO much more to them than the whole drug thing. That was the weakest storyline in the annals of Grateful Dead history if you ask me, although the Acid Tests were instrumental in defining what the band eventually became, and they took it from there and expanded on it. The Grateful Dead were - and will probably always remain - the most utterly unique band of all time. Nobody sounded remotely like them. Their influences came from so many varied places: Lesh's avant-garde jazz influences, Garcia's bluegrass/country/rock/jazz background, Bobby's love of good old rock and roll, and Billy...
There was SO much more to them than the whole drug thing. That was the weakest storyline in the annals of Grateful Dead history if you ask me, although the Acid Tests were instrumental in defining what the band eventually became, and they took it from there and expanded on it. The Grateful Dead were - and will probably always remain - the most utterly unique band of all time. Nobody sounded remotely like them. Their influences came from so many varied places: Lesh's avant-garde jazz influences, Garcia's bluegrass/country/rock/jazz background, Bobby's love of good old rock and roll, and Billy and Mickey's jazz fusion/world music influences. All this combined to make a unique whole that was all their own. Garcia's guitar playing was not of this earth - it was pure inspiration, as if his playing was driven by some unseen force. There would be moments seeing them live almost nightly when some amazing theme would just pop out and they would just FLOOR you with it. For better or worse, they fathered the whole "jam bands" scene (some bands good, some abysmal). The old bumper sticker was true: there is (was) nothing like a Grateful Dead concert." Saw them 142 times, I should know lol.
it's a love song about the perfect girl. it's not a love song about marijuana or any drugs. it's about the perfect girl who you can have a great time with. get high with her down by the river, under the willow.
This is my favorite Dead song, regardless of whether it's about dope, it always makes me feel better and at peace when I hear it, heard a kick ass version @ ventura county fairgrounds when they used some echo effect and kept repeating ' Sunshine Daydream'. miss you Jerry.
Just because it's the Grateful Dead doesn't necessarily mean it's about drugs, folks. It's most definitely about a girl. Bob Weir's lover at the time, Frankie, was certainly of some inspiration to this song ("waits backstage while I sing to you"). I do know this song created some friction bewtween Robert Hunter (the main lsyricist of it) and Bob Weir (who penned the line "Jump like a Willys in four wheel drive", much to Hunter's dismay). It eventually became so tense between the two that when John Perry Barlow - himself a fine, fine lyricist - started writing word for Weir's music, Hunter said, "Take him, he's yours!" Great, great song, both live and in the studio. Live it was a straight-out rocker, the studio version has almost a country-ish lilt which is quite pleasing.
Another one i must be way off on. This always seemed to be about a Jeep.
You don't get much do you.
You don't get much do you.
@Merlin Haha. I love it. I now, too, think it is about a Jeep...
@Merlin Haha. I love it. I now, too, think it is about a Jeep...
It's a good song, even if it's about drugs.
All the flower references can be metaphorical for the features of a woman too.
To "Ihatepooping" your an idiot and will hopefully see in time what all GD songs are about, hint (all are about the same thig in one way or another) Its about a girl who has yet to reach self actualization but she is coming around and will soon get there, but he seess her as a beautiful person who still brings light to everyones day even though she doesnt yet realize who she is.
Its a love song about a girl whose fun to be around.
To Sugar Magnolia: This song is about a woman fully herself. That's why Bobby is enamored. She has everything delightful. This song came from an area in Boulder Canyon. Sugar Loaf Rd and Magnolia Rd.
Who the heck attributed this song's authoring to people other than Bob Weir and Robert Hunter, the men who wrote the song? This information is nonsense and not applicable as well. Why include "Next Time You See Me" in here? Idiot.
Lyrics submitted by itsmyownmind "Next Time You See Me" as written by Earl Forest, William G. Harvey Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group Lyrics powered by LyricFind
I've fixed it, but that stupid crap itsmyownmind submitted is still at the bottom of the lyrics.
I've fixed it, but that stupid crap itsmyownmind submitted is still at the bottom of the lyrics.