Live by The Merry Go Round

Live by The Merry Go Round. Released in 1966 it was a hit mostly on the west coast by 1967. It evokes our desire and ability to live beyond the confines of our various walls. Lead singer and composer Emitt Rhodes went on to have a brief but successful recording career, but was disillusioned by legal hassles with his record company.
See my Top 400+ with links to most of the songs:
http://philosopherswheel.com/ericrock.html
For another fun ride try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJxpPoMwU0

The hard-to-hear lyrics:
Oh you're the kind of girl who's got theirself wound up in a ball
Oh - you think you live - but how can ya
Locked up in four walls

If you gotta go you better live your life before you pass away
Don't waste a day
All your life's been spent locked in your room
You never had a chance to roam - away from home

So - You're gonna go - Go today - Don't waste any time
For in life a day - Is worth a million - Soon you will find

If you gotta go you better live your life before you pass away
Don't waste a day
All your life's been spent locked in your room
You never had a chance to roam - away from home

Live Live Live Live
Live Live Live Live

Now - Do what you want - Go where you want
It's all up to you
For in life the rule - Is just to do
What you want to do

If you gotta go you better live your life before you pass away
Don't waste a day
All your life's been spent locked in your room
You never had a chance to roam - away from home

If - You don't know now - What life's about
Go on now and live
And if - You don't know how - It's not so hard
Just let go and live

If you gotta go you better live your life before you pass away
Don't waste a day
All your life's been spent locked in your room
You never had a chance to roam - away from home

Live Live Live Live

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[kathy04092]

To Laurie Emery...I'm sorry I broke your copy of this record in 1967, and even sorrier that I had to give you my copy.

I always think of you whenever I hear this song.....Kathy

[thebansheeman]

I saw the Merry Go round open for the Jefferson Airplane in 1967 at a daytime outdoor concert in L.A. what a trip!

[deberns]

Hey Gino,

Remember the '100' club on 3rd St NE Ft. Lauderdale Fl, it was there you told me about this record and I bought it at 'Peaches' on Sunrise.

Skip a Rope

[CenaTv2]

@adobePC same here.

[john1513jhh]

Great song and group, we played this song in our band back in the day. XM plays it on the 60's channel, thanks Cousin Brucie and Motormouth.

[adobePC]

Cool song. I heard the Bangles version first.

[fingletoad]

Dang! We had F-U-N in those years! I would not trade this glorious music at all, thanks for posting!

[hkyoutoob]

@thebansheeman  In the same year, in the just constructed football stadium opening at Birmingham High School (Van Nuys CA) I saw a similar show there: The Doors; The Merry Go Round; & Love, (and possibly another band, who I can't recall, may have been the J.A.)! Weren't those the days!

[Babyhowdy233]

@BadRaspberriesFinger

I quite agree!

[soldmeout]

Great Sixties sound!

[Tdelivers]

This is the first band I ever saw. It was at the Teen Fair at the Hollywood Palladium. They were with some other band called Yellow Balloon. They were pretty good, but the best band of the day was some group called Boston Tea Party. I thought they were going to be big, but I never heard of them again.

[jessthehorse]

This was a damn good record. I used to play Gazzari's and lots of the strip places in the late 60s with Mike Chain and this was one of the better songs and recordings for my money. I do not know Emmit personally but we have friends in common