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Just got home from Illinois lock the front door oh boy!
Got to sit down take a rest on the porch.
Imagination sets in pretty soon I'm singin'
CHORUS:
Doo doo doo Lookin' out my back door.
There's a giant doing cartwheels a statue wearin' high heels.
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
A dinosaur Victrola list'ning to Buck Owens.
CHORUS
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Wond'rous apparition provided by magician.
CHORUS
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
CHORUS
Forward troubles Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
CHORUS
Got to sit down take a rest on the porch.
Imagination sets in pretty soon I'm singin'
CHORUS:
Doo doo doo Lookin' out my back door.
There's a giant doing cartwheels a statue wearin' high heels.
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
A dinosaur Victrola list'ning to Buck Owens.
CHORUS
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Wond'rous apparition provided by magician.
CHORUS
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
CHORUS
Forward troubles Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
CHORUS
Lyrics submitted by 3ssence
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Just got home from Illinois lock the front door oh boy! Got to sit down take a rest on the porch.
"In my opinion this is a reference to a drug run"
Imagination sets in pretty soon I'm singin' Doo doo doo Lookin' out my back door. There's a giant doing cartwheels a statue wearin' high heels. Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn. A dinosaur Victrola list'ning to Buck Owens. Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band. Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
"Flying Spoon? What could one use a spoon for??"
Doo, doo doo. Wond'rous apparition provided by magician. " LSD "
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
Forward troubles Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy! Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn. Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
This song was written and preformed in a time in which references to drug use had to be encoded into a song. Just think about it for a while, it will come to you. This is Just my opinion. Judge it for yourself.
I think tomyart is 100% right.
Um. Nope. <br /> <br /> It was partly written for John Fogerty's son Josh who at the time was 3. Fogerty says: "I knew he would love it if he heard me on the radio singing - doot doot doo, lookin' out my back door." In the song lyrics there is a reference to a parade passing by which John says was inspired by a Dr. Seuss book that he read as a kid titled To Think (That) I Saw It On Mulberry Street.
Tomyart is right,but I dont agree with soundofherwings's opinion... Fogerty says the same Lennon's lie, when he tried to explain "Lucy in the sky with diamonds",using his son Julian.<br /> <br /> These are songs about drug run,both.<br /> <br /> Regards from Brazil