PERFUMED GARDEN
BLUES (John Peel's Lament)
- Jeffrey Prowes
Specially recorded for John Peel's show on Radio London, and not commercially released, the song was played several times on Peel's show, including during the final "Perfumed Garden" on Monday August 14th 1967.
I was sittin' at my
radio, alone and feeling blue
When over the airwaves, there came a sound so true
It's gonna be a sad, sad, day when the Perfumed Garden wilts and dies away
A song so soft and gentle, came into my brain
I listen very slowly, it's a number by the Jefferson Airplane
It's gonna be a sad, sad, day when the Perfumed Garden wilts and dies away
He blew my mind... the lovin' kind... makes everything so fine, fine, fine
I really feel for the tender lovin' tunes the DJ spins
He played the Mothers of Invention and the Velvet Underground
He played some freaky music from the Zodiac Cosmic Sounds
It's gonna be a sad, sad, day when the Perfumed Garden wilts and dies away
Lookin' dark and gloomy, what am I gonna do?
Between those same grand hours of twelve 'til two
It's gonna be a sad, sad, day when the Perfumed Garden wilts and dies away
Thanks to Martin van der Ven
for lyrics