#THEY CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW LYRICS CRACKED#

Search for: Follow This, That, and the Other on WordPress. Written for this weeks Thursday Photo Prompt from Sue Vincent.Īnd, in case you were wondering, here’s Donvan’s song. “Pass me that joint, brother,” Ronald said. They were just appearing on the scene at that time.” “Well,” said Donald, “I heard that the ‘electrical banana’ in the song is about women’s battery-operated vibrators. They call me mellow yellow Im just mad about fourteen Fourteens mad about me Im-a just mad about a-fourteen A-shes just mad about me They call me mellow yellow They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly) They call me mellow yellow Born-a high forever to fly A-wind-a velocity nil Born-a high forever to fly If you want, your cup I will fill. “Well I heard that the song is about being cool and laid-back.” “I don’t know, but I heard that mellow yellow refers to a rumor back in the sixties that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins,” Donald said. “Who is Saffron, anyway?” Ronald asked Donald. Mellow Yellow Lyrics by Donovan from the 60s of Love and Music, Vol. “I’m just mad about Saffron, Saffron’s mad about me. I’m just mad about Saffron, she’s just mad about me. They call me mellow yellow (quite rightly). They call me mellow yellow (quite rightly).”īy the time they finished singing those words, Ronald and Donald were doubled over with laughter. The young men then started singing together. Chorus 3: D G They call me Mellow Yellow, (quite right-ly), A D G They call me Mellow Yellow, (quite right-ly). G G7 A A7 Born high forever to fly, if you want, your cup I will fill.

#THEY CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW LYRICS CRACKED#

As the brothers walked down the path, yellow tipped flowers growing in abundance on both sides and nearly as far as the eye could see, Ronald suddenly started humming the old Donovan song, “Mellow Yellow.”ĭonald got a broad smile on his face and uttered the words, “quite rightly.” Both of them cracked up. Verse 3: D G D A G Born high forever to fly, wind velocity nil.

They call me mellow yellow lyrics