The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MamboMan 

Cover art for The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil lyrics by Jefferson Airplane

The poem actually contains pieces of a number of A.A. Milne poems. The most prominent one is "Spring Morning"

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: "Doesn't the sky look green today?"..... If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!"

But there are also quotes from "Halfway Down"

Halfway down the stairs is a stair where i sit. there isn't any other stair quite like it. i'm not at the bottom, i'm not at the top; so this is the stair where I always stop.

And also from the poem "Solitude"

I have a house where I go When there's too many people, I have a house where I go Where no one can be; I have a house where I go, Where nobody ever says "No"; Where no one says anything- so There is no one but me.

I might have missed a couple more... but I don't recall any Milne poems about armadillo's. The combination of of the magic of childhood meshed with the magic of psychedelics.........