true hippie song

I'd like to suggest honorable mention should go to:

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

-Written by B. Scott and B. Russell, as performed by the Hollies

The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows when
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there
For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share
And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother...

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

But here's my choice for the best song ever.

Peace,
poor_old_dad

 

I think there is song for us. you could say ' dancing in the streets' is one. I mean it is telling you it doesnt matter who you are, just have fun, freedom, gathering all together in the streets.
peace and always be grateful!

 

Nice choice, man. I think two other songs that really sum up the hippy ideology for me are "Give Peace a Chance," and definately Donovan's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven."

 

Schlüßelberg hit mine~! thats the one I would choose as well, Jefferson Airplane: "Volunteers of America."Just wanted to see who came up w/it first on this thread since I'm jumping in it a bit late

 

My generation by the Who? 1965
Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf? 1968
Revolution by the Beatles/ 1968

 

Interestingly enough, I just finished Grace Slick's autobiography. Too sanitized for my taste, but a good overview. She 's the archetypical female rocker; she had bigger balls than most of the men. "The Worst of the Jefferson Airplane" is on heavy rotation at my house. That was one tight band, and those guys were GOOD. Tranquility.

 

eve of destruction by g mc guire. also mathew southern comfort=woodstock and richie havens =freedom are a few that spring to mind....../peace/

 

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee;
An' we don't take our trips on LSD.
We don't burn no draft cards down on Main Street;
We like livin' right, an' bein' free.

We don't make no party out of lovin';
We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo;
We don't let our hair grow long and shagg
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do <------

And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave 'Old Glory' down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.

Hey, leather boots are still in style for manly footwear;
Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen.
An' football's still the roughest thing on campus,
And the kids there still respect the college dean.

And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave 'Old Glory' down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.

And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.

[Haggard]

 

I like Everything is Beautiful by Ray Stevens from the early 70s.


Everything Is Beautiful

Ray Stevens
- written by Ray Stevens

Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world

Everything is beautiful in its' own way
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter's day
Everybody's beautiful in their own way
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way

There is none so blind as he who will not see
We must not close our minds, we must let our thought be free
For every hour that passes by, you know the world gets a little bit older
It's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder

Everything is beautiful in its' own way
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter's day
Ah, sing it children
Everybody's beautiful in their own way
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way

We shouldn't care about the length of his hair or the color of his skin
Don't worry about what shows from without but the love that lives within
We're gonna get it all together now and everything gonna work out fine
Just take a little time to look on the good side my friend
And straighten it out in your mind

Everything is beautiful in its' own way
Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter's day
Everybody's beautiful in their own way
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way

 

Naked If I Want To

(Oops! I meant for this to go in the main thread, but I posted it in the last reply I read. Senior moment.)

 

"Down in the Gutter but Free"—Canned Heat
"Living with the Bear"—John Mayall
"Plastic People", "Who Needs the Peace Corps?", "Flower Punk," "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"—The Mothers of Invention
"Almost Cut My Hair"—CSNY
"Hippie from Olema"—The Youngbloods (or was that Jesse Colin Young? It was the answer song to "Okie from Muskogee")
... or how about that Ultimate Spinach song that starts out "Mindless cretins..."? That was a favorite greeting by one of my late hippie friends, may he R.I.P. (rock in perpetuity).

also "Bass Strings" and "Don't Bogart That Joint, My Friend"

and Steve Miller's "Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'Round"

plus The Fugs' "I'm Doin' All Right"

 

Absolutely, and it's "been psychedelicized"!

 

Hippie From Olema #5

Bummer! The direct link doesn't work off the Amazon site, so try this one and click the song title instead.

"We still take in strangers if they're Haggard"

 

I don't know, Bush is a lot scarier than Nixon was, in retrospect.

 

And don't you know this one had ol' Tricky Dick under his desk in the White House Basement bunker, pissing himself, when he first heard it? (My earliest memoriy of American Presidential Politics is the Watrgate Scandal)

We Can Be Together

We can be together
Ah you and me
We should be together
We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young
But we should be together
Come on all you people standing around
Our life's too fine to let it die and
We can be together
All your private property is
Target for your enemy
And your enemy is
We
We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves
Up against the wall
Up against the wall fred (motherfucker)
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Come on now together
Get it on together
Everybody together
We should be together
We should be together my friends
We can be together
We will be
We must begin here and now
A new continent of earth and fire
Come on now gettin higher and higher
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Won't you try

Would someone please explain the "forge fred" reference in ln. 5?

 

Let's not forget the soundtrack to Hair!

 

too much to read here righ tnow, but did anyone mention the Electric Prunes?

for a long time they were my favorite band

 

I certainly agree with you, but let us both remember the fact that Nixon was pretty much the worst until GWB. And let us both remind the young uns that Johnson was the sonofabitch who escalated the Nam.

But this GWB, man, he's in a class by himself. You want to read some cool political forums, bondage.com. (Yeah, OK, old hippie AND kinky. Whatever gets ya through the night, nicht wahr?)

I'm pretty much at the point where I think it is our patriotic duty to evade taxes. Just cover your tracks and don't make dumb mistakes.

Didn't mean for this to become a Yippie-rant.

I still say Jefferson Airplane. They pretty much got the whole Bay area scene encapsulated in "Volunteers" and the above mentioned "We Can Be Together" ( I never heard this Fred thing, need to lsiten again, I reckon); the Haight, Berkeley's Free Speech movement, Oakland's Black Panthers, the whole thing. Heady times, and I miss them, even though I was on the tail end of the heavy shit. My opinion, today's youth REALLY need to stop wanking on RCs and whatnot in the bedrooms of sub(conscious)urbia and hit the fuckin' streets.

For a great psychedelic LP, though, I always fall back on White Bird by It's a Beautiful Day. That was on the turntable the first time I ever did mescaline, back around 1970. Sweet violin by David LaFlamme. Good LP for erotic adventures too. Fuck for peace, kiddies!

 

How about the albumn, ''Electric Music For Your Mind and Body", by Country Joe and the Fish", and the song "Masked Maurauder"