I'm guessing that "being in sugar town" is beatnik slang for being high on LSD. In the 60's, LSD was usually taken by swallowing a sugar cube onto which a drop of the LSD chemical was dripped.
"Not a drop fell on little old me"
"Pretty soon all my troubles will pass"
"Lay right here in the grass" may allude to marijuana.
"Ten dollars" was probably what a sugarcube of LSD cost in 1966.
I would agree. I love that the song seems so innocent when you first hear it, without listening to the lyrics. I certainly hope that the description you provided is the correct one, it is what I've thought of the lyrics as well. Although I originally thought of cocaine as the drug being sung about, but this seems quite unlikely because of its unpopularity in the 60's.
I would agree. I love that the song seems so innocent when you first hear it, without listening to the lyrics. I certainly hope that the description you provided is the correct one, it is what I've thought of the lyrics as well. Although I originally thought of cocaine as the drug being sung about, but this seems quite unlikely because of its unpopularity in the 60's.
I'm guessing that "being in sugar town" is beatnik slang for being high on LSD. In the 60's, LSD was usually taken by swallowing a sugar cube onto which a drop of the LSD chemical was dripped.
"Not a drop fell on little old me"
"Pretty soon all my troubles will pass"
"Lay right here in the grass" may allude to marijuana.
"Ten dollars" was probably what a sugarcube of LSD cost in 1966.
I would agree. I love that the song seems so innocent when you first hear it, without listening to the lyrics. I certainly hope that the description you provided is the correct one, it is what I've thought of the lyrics as well. Although I originally thought of cocaine as the drug being sung about, but this seems quite unlikely because of its unpopularity in the 60's.
I would agree. I love that the song seems so innocent when you first hear it, without listening to the lyrics. I certainly hope that the description you provided is the correct one, it is what I've thought of the lyrics as well. Although I originally thought of cocaine as the drug being sung about, but this seems quite unlikely because of its unpopularity in the 60's.