The Guess Who - Friends of Mine

(Bachman/Cummings)

Friends of mine don't have the time
For food or wine
Just money is on their minds

Life is sweet
On a one-way street
They're indiscrete
And funny, they'll never meet

(Da doo da doo doo doo doo doo) X 6
Oooooooohhhh

B-bay-b-bay-b-bay-b-bay-bay-ba-baby...

I gotta get a two-ton truck
I gotta get a two-ton truck
I gotta get a two-ton truck
I gotta get a two-ton truck
I gotta do it to a duck on a two-ton truck and fade away like Ron Rene
All right, all right

ahhhhh ahhhhh ahhhhh ahhhhh

You got the magical mystery tour
You got the magical mystery tour
You got the magical mystery tour
You got the magical mystery tour

And Kurt is the Walrus
And Kurt is the Walrus
And the Walrus does funny things to the veins in his left arm, yeah
All right

And Michael is now a father, all right
And Michael is now a proud father, all right
And my good friend Michael is now a proud father
And Michael is now a father, all right
And that means Michael's wife is a mother, all right

Up the thirteen steps of the gallows walked the condemned man
And time passes very quickly when death is near
After having completed the first step, the condemned man knew there were but twelve left
Before he would meet death and his soul would leave his body
And after having completed the thirteen steps the condemned man was met by a giant cloaked figure
And with a quick flick of the wrist the man was dead
And his soul left his body and went down down down
To a place we laughingly refer to as hell
But none of us will ever go there because we're all far too groovy
The man's body was left to rot on the gallows
And a great multitude of black birds came and picked the man's corpse apart
Piece by piece
Limb by limb
Until nothing remained
And his blood melted into the ground below

The gallows was made from a tree created by God
The man's blood dripped into the ground which was created by God
Even the giant cloaked figure which was the man's own end was created by God
Even the man's soul which went down was created by God
Even the black birds which picked the man's corpse apart were created by God
AND WHERE WAS GOD?

In Flanders Fields the poppies grow
between the crosses row on row
to mark the dead

To Flanders Fields the hippies go
to smoke the poppies there below
and feed their heads

And they're all friends of mine, each and every one of them, no better and no worse
And we'll probably end up down there together when it's all over

And that's why we say
B-bay-b-bay-b-bay-b-bay-bay-ba-baby...

All right, all right, ALL RIGHT
It's, it's all over and it's all right.
It's all over and it's all right.
It's all over and it's all right.
All over, and it's all..
IT'S ALL RIGHT

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guess
• who
• wheatfield
• soul
• cummings
• minstrel
• boy
• psychedelic
• where
• god

[7beers]

This is by far my favorite song for dancing naked to alone in my room in total darkness.

[revolution1940]

hahaha awesome/weird

[7beers]

This is not a song -- it's an event.

[keendog91]

When I saw them in concert in Los Angeles in the 70s...heard this song... the words "Where Was God" vibrated through by body...unbelievable.

[bobajmc14]

Yeah that sounds right I lived at that time in southern Oklahoma little town called Waurika and late at night we could get it listened to the king Buscuit Flower Hour and on sundays if I remember was The Dr Demento Show Had to be wasted for that " these were the moments that make up a dull mind stay cool and take care Bob

[v12flatout]

@bobajmc14 The station was probably KAAY Little Rock, AK

[91FroSt91]

That song is ... weird XD

[bobajmc14]

thats crazy when I was in the Navy we would come home get wasted and watch Beverly Hillbillies and Green acears with the sound off and for music it was usually the Who or Yes unless it was getting stoned with wine also and the it was ELO or Emerson lake and Palmer sometimes it was so so intense trying to get into both the music and to what was going on on those inane dumb shows Loved those days except the Navy Part of course

[zoewolf]

@bobajmc14 We used to listen to Side 2 of In A Gadda Da Vida while watching soap operas with the sound off on the TV. It was amaizing how well the two matched up!

[bobajmc14]

@zoewolf OH YEAH Pink Floyd --Several small species of animals grooving togeather in a cave with a pict -- believe it was off the Omanganda album or something spelled better I cant remember the name of the radio station but it was out of Little Rock Arkansaw and we could only get it late at night Getting stoned and passing around the Boones Farm wine or Homemade Sangria and just mellow and enjoy some of the best music ever made The late 60"s and early 70"s were a great time to grow up

[zoewolf]

@bobajmc14 Don't forget Wishbone Ash The King Will Come and Pink Floyd Time.

[zoznack]

This is Burton Cummings doing his Jim Morrison/Soft Parade rip-off. But still, I like the song for all its peaks and valleys. But not even close to the GW's best work.

[bobajmc14]

first heard this song on King Biscuit Flower Hour It is one of the best songs in the world to get stoned to right along with Stairway to Heaven and Inda-Gadda-da-vidda This was the greatest era of Rock and Roll and will never be reached again