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Hurdy Gurdy Man Lyrics
Artist: Donovan
HURDY GURDY MAN
Donovan
Thrown like a star in my vast sleep
I open my eyes to take a peep
To find that I was by the sea
Gazing with tranquillity.
'Twas then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love,
Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love.
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy he sang.
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy he sang.
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy he sang.
Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity.
'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Comes singing songs of love,
Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Comes singing songs of love.
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy he sang.
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy.
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy he sang.
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy he sang.
Here comes the roly poly man and he's singing songs of love,
Roly poly, roly poly, roly poly, poly he sang.
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy he sang,
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy he sang
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Comments/Interpretations
love it in lie
When the truth gets buried deep
Beneath a thousand years asleep
Time demands a turnaround
And once again, the truth is found
I've loved this song ever since the moment I first heard it in the movie Zodiac. I don't know why I haven't heard of it before, suppose I just wasn't born early enough.
I heard it in Zodiac too! Love this song now, it's one of my favourites
This songs amazing, same with cmnt above, loved since Zodiac :)
It's got great lyrics and the song altogether is very psychedelic.
A great song long forgotten. Pulled up and out of my memory bank thanks to Zodiac.
Great song, very psychedelic sound to it.
I actually came across this song and fell in love with it funnily enough from infomercials on tv..
Here in australia after midnight we get infomercials on TV selling cd's of old music by Time Life.. I tend to just have my tv going while I'm on the computer, but heard this song on there and loved it straight away.
Heard it also in Zodiac :P great movie that one
Also.. I heard the Butthole Surfers cover of it the other night.. shocking, absolutly shocking
song was great for L.I.E.
Zodiac is the great movie and this is the greatest song!
Donovan sang this song around the same time he also sang "Atlantis", another haunting song. . . It was a long time ago
i heard this song in the movie "Man of the year" and completely fell in love with it. it's such a grat song.
Call me officially old. Hey I was in grade school. Don't forget to go to your download source guys. There is certainly a lot more Donovan there waiting for you. Listened to it all last night: Season of the Witch, Mellow Yellow, Barabajagal! You have no idea the neurons it stimulates!!
this song really rocks!!!
First heard this song in movie Zodiac. Awesome.
i am officially old too. this was music from my grade school years. BeeRyan's lyric was written by Beatle George Harrison, not included in recording as the song rang long. I love that particular lyric. it fits well. Donovan contributed "sky of blue and sea of green" for the yellow submarine song.
donovan
Jimmy Paige
John Paul Jones
John Bonham
all in this song
need i say more?
i love this song!
Original...
No sooner than i heard the first of the song in the movie, i have fallen love with it for grim death
thats bullshit you damn posers, saw it in a movie and thought it was "cool" go really listen to some music. just beacuse mainstream hollywood dug up a song beacuse it was catchy you queers wil never really know what any of his songs are really about.
Classy reply there "the".
Why don't you enlighten us about Donavan Leitch oh masterful one?
Low-life.
first heard the song on wknr in detroit when i was a kid and went out and got the 45. donovan was quite popular for a while there - atlantis,jennifer juniper
man........i came from the time when psychedelia drugs were prevalent.... i wouldn't take them but donovan sure made good use of them....his lyrics were incredible
wasnt john bonham who played drums in this song. all though it is very much like bonhams' style of fills, bonham was a triplet guy, loved those triplets( for the drummers out there) the line up was donovan, john paul jones (john baldwin),alen parker, and clem cattini on drums. and yes this is a very good hippe anthem (0;
No....
Common misconception on this song is that Jimmy Page and John Bonham played on this song.
They did not. Only John Paul Jones was part of this song.
This is a great song. It's chilling and haunting and fits the movie 'Zodiac' perfectly....
Many people believe legendary band 'Cream' was the spawn of this song.....whatever the case may be, this chilling and beautiful song inspired some of the great rock legends to follow without a doubt.
First time I heard this song was in Zodiac. Great movie.
GREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAT MOVIE , realy ....
not like the rotten movies we see every days .....
and this is a great song ... i heard it on the movie first time
and i'm downloading the whole album of Donovan right now ...
I was 14 when this hit the air along with other psychedelic songs like "Incense and Peppermint" by Strawberry Alarm Clock.
Strangely enough, we then moved to California so I lived south of Los Angeles at age 15/16 when the Zodiac story hit the front pages of the LA Times.
This whole "revival" with the movie and this song just has been some bizarre trip down memory lane for me! :)
give me a fucking break!
i was just gonna ask those kids for a light and then i heard this song playing and flew into a rage........
Awesome song, Trippy!
CHILDREN ALL! Hell, kids, I was in college having already been in the navy. ;-)
John Paul Jones was already and established producer and studio musician (like Jimmy Page - no "i" in Page, btw...). He's all over Donovan Leitch's work. I remember this song when I was a kid. Psychedelic music is still my favorite stuff. Psychedelic movies, too. Like "INLAND EMPIRE" (which has nothing at all to do with this song!) Love to all you hippies and hodads!
heard this stuff in high school, college and the Navy. Played last night on KLOS in L.A. (955klos.com streaming online with Jim Ladd-the Lonesome L.A. Cowboy- check him out). For those of us of riped years there's always something to soothe our roughened ears.
I was 21 when the original was released- big deal. Doesn't make my experience any more or less than those who discovered it later. Mozart is rediscovered by each generation.... Hindsight can be so arrogant. To "the" who posted on 08/10. Get a life.
This song would be great in a last part for a skate vid.
lols, nice song
I love this music.
This song always reminds me of what I thought Jesus was.
Now I just think it's about hippies.
I still love it.
hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdyman....U'll Never Catch me...
For me, not an english speaker, it's easy to think it deals with dark subjects (based on how gloomy it sounds), too bad it doesn't. In Zodiac, I thought it was perfectly fitting (mainly when it was in the background as Zodiac shot the kids). Just to find out it's about fucking hippies. Great song anyway.
Nice. They didn't get him by the way. Sorry
The use of the song in Zodiac, as some sort of demented anthemn for the killer is pure genius.
It's great to see some younger people have "found" this music. One of my favorite albums ever is a live album from this era where he had a guy accompanying on flute (although I can't seem to find it now.)
awesome song...loved it since zodiac..
This song was used in Zodiac because the kid that was shot in that scene and lived said that it was the song the killer was playing in his car when he pulled up behind them. Creepy!
cool song but the BUTTHOLE SURFERS did a way better cover of it. sounds good while you're on nitrous too!
Beautiful song and very good movie. I hope people take advantage of this and try to listen other beautiful songs of that era.
The all time best version of this is by the Butthole Surfers
yes, zodiac may have 'popularized' this song for many of us! great song from a great artist of the 60s, with a lot of interesting rock history behind it...did u know Jimmy Page plays the guitar solo towards the end??
I ran into this song because of the Zodiac movie, i did like the movie, but looove the song, really groovy sound.
lets get this straight does jimmy page play guitar on this song or not?
I also first heard this song watching "Zodiac". Great song, great movie. Real crazy case. Kind of made me want to become a detective.
The Butthole surfers did an excellent cover of this song off locust abortion tech
ThIs iS dEfiNiTeLy a cOoL sOnG... i fIrSt hEaRd iT on "ZoDiAc" then on "BobBy".. ReMiNdS mE oF tHe 60's & 70's..m/
to the zodiac, you sure got what you wanted, who will be next to step up.
Hurdy Gurdy Man is an alltime psychedelic classic, so much so I am using some of the lyrics in my second book.
Donovan rules.
i guess we all have zodiac minds... hehehehehehe..
i keep singing songs of love hurdy, gurdy, hurdy, gurdy, hurdy i sang i feel like the zodiac
Downloaded this song as soon as I heard it in "Zodiac"...Now I m really mesmerized by this song..Its truly magical.
This song is one of the best of its era and an amazing era it was.Here are more songs that you might like."apocalyse now", and "the end " by "the doors" this band also has that phychedelic rithum to there music,Bob dylan "blowing in the wind",janis joplin,jimi hendrix the jimster,The mamas and the papas "california dreaming",the jefferson airplane "white rabbit" is amazing.
I suggest all of you seek out and find Steve Hillage's version of this song from the album 'L', featuring Utopia as the backing band and Todd Rundgren producing.
the hurdy gurdy man is scary...
wikipedia discusses the musician line-up; the question as to who actually played guitar;page or parker and drums; bonham or cattini.....while page has at different times claimed yes or no, donovan has repeatedly insited that it is page and as far as the drums go, that it was bonham... regardless of what has been claimed, i tend to agree with that position because while the guitar sound can't neccessarily be pegged to him alone, it does sound like page and he was an active session player at the time of the start-up of zeppelin and the drums sound a LOT more like bonham than cattini who was the drummer for the tornadoes (telstar) and on some of joe cocker's "a little help from my friends"....none of what he does sounds like what bonham does on hurdy gurdy....which my 3 1/2 year-old twins love, by the way
i loved this song since the first time i heard it and i heard it back on zodiac and its just amazing!
I love it too, i heard it on the commercial for Zodiac, since then i adore it, and am learning it on Guitar.
Zodiac powa!
Would be better with less "no singing" part :P
"by arthur leigh allen on 9/2/2008 5:42am
give me a fucking break!
i was just gonna ask those kids for a light and then i heard this song playing and flew into a rage........"
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
JOHN BONHAM - JOHN HENRY BONHAM!
THAT'S JOHN HENRY BONHAM!JOHN BONHAM - JOHN HENRY BONHAM!
THAT'S JOHN HENRY BONHAM!
JOHN BONHAM - JOHN HENRY BONHAM!
THAT'S JOHN HENRY BONHAM!
JOHN BONHAM - JOHN HENRY BONHAM!
THAT'S JOHN HENRY BONHAM!
this thread is quickly making me dislike the zodiac film which i now have no interest in watching
This song got my attention when i was watching "The Zodiac" on cable. I immediately searched it on youtube and found several videos. Very nice song and the movie as well!
Song has a completely different take in the film "L.I.E." Who'd have thunk? ;)
great tune, cant get enough
I am The Zodiac
This is a rubbish song
I never really saw this song's genius till it was used in Zodiac.
The song is truly a piece of art. Especially when in Zodiac, when he's shooting the kids and the song in the back ground, very insane.
This is an LSD driven composition, plain and simple. If Donovan never dropped a hit of acid, this song never would have been written. I was about 15 years old when I first heard this master piece. I loved it then when I was tripping my ass off.
I still love it today.
I was 16 when I heard it for the first time in the movie "Sleepers" (1996).
Donovan tried to get Hendrix to play on the recording, but he was on tour and unavailable, as was Jimmy Page who was out of the country touring with The Yardbirds. Instead the job went to a young British guitarist, Alan Parker. It is possible Jimmy Page did play on other tracking sessions for The Hurdy Gurdy Man LP, although this is unlikely, as the remaining guitar parts were acoustic only and played by Donovan except on "Tangier", which features Bert Jansch. John Paul Jones played bass with Clem Cattini on drums.
Havent seen Zodiak ... sounds Heavy man . I guess I'll have to watch it now .. . I'm sure it's Rad-e-cool-Trippy but Donovan and Friends really created a Shaman's mantra for the times and it wasn't just to blow minds . Thats some real hippy love shit goin' on there ! Peace
really freekie last comment was dated 6/11/2010, well f me it is only 24th july 2010. any answers please.
Hey Mary, previous is even more freaky, 5/26/2010!!! Oh wait...
haha I HEAR THIS SONG IN ZODIAC AND I LIKE SO MUCH I WAS LIKE CRAZY FOR HEAR IT
That's JimmY Page! no way it's anyone else...:)
All thats fine...bt can anyone tell me...who he's referring to as d 'hurdy gurdy man'?wats d inner meaning behind d song?
Oh my god!!!! what a masterpiece!!...
I heard this song in another masterpiece "Zodiac"...
who is this "hurdy gurdy man"??
my boyfriend...absolutely! ;-)
The song tells of a time in the cycle of history when the basis of life is hidden. Suffering of humaity brings on the hurdy gurdy man, who brings out a technique to restore balance in life. At this time Donovan has lent his talents to describe what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has been teaching. Take a look, this really is the truth.
heard this when I was 12 (1969) on Physcodelic Shack, never forgot it, still have the 45, never tried to anaylize it, just enjoyed it...Physcodelic Shack was a syndicated sunday night radio program where I first heard Journey to the center of your mind, White Room, and Ball of Confusion; among others...ROCK ON!!!!
what does this song say to you?
it is tripped out
I was 7 at the time this song was on am radio, it always brings me back there every time I hear it. Look at the talent that was involved in this toataly amazing.
This is a beautiful song...
I love it since I heard Donovan singing with David Lynch. Great song, and album
Every time I hear it, Hurdy Gurdy transports me to a hot city summer and the tender age of seventeen . A magical sense of personal and societal transformation abounding to the sweet voice and psychedelic music of Donovan at his best.
Thanks to the gentle troubador for all you've given to our generation. The right artist at the right time.
this songs suits on the psyco who go 4 killing
Zodiac was a super hyped movie that was fairly mediocre. Robert Downey's supporting character pretty much steals the show. IMO: the best part of the movie and the only real reason for seeing it. Hurdy Gurdy man, however, IS the real deal AND should be recognized as the classic that it is. I tend to agree that the song deals with enlightenment (even if you achieve it on LSD), and that it is basically Zeppelin (w/out Plant.) I want to say I read that in a book called "Hammer of the Gods" about Zep. Peace and love to the haters:)
As freaky as Hurdy Gurdy Man, is Riki Tiki Tavi (Jungle Book) reference. Listen to it read lyrics. Donavaon under-rated composer.
if you want to hear hurdy gurdy man in another movie, check out sleepers. it is the perfect song at the perfect moment. just like sunshine of your love in goodfellas
I heard this in 6th choir.
The Hurdy Gurdy Man is the bringer of truth
Makesmewanttokillagainandagain!
Toute ma jeunesse, c'était la meilleure du moment et plus de 40 ans aprčs, elle me fait toujours de l'effet...
Grew up in the 60's, Loved Donavan, Steve Edwards just did a special on him, guess he is going to be inducted into the hall of fame and deservingly so. Season of the
witch is also a great psychodelic song.
BEST
SONG
EVER
Am watching Zodiac n remembered what a great song it is.
I remember loving the Butthole Surfers cover too!
My dad used to listen to it and then i heard it in Zodiac and now i now it's one of the greatest songs ever... like baker man or mellow yellow
When the music's over turn out the light's
Back in the Day, this Song Kicked Ass and still does. Folks that missed the "60's really missed s weird time that changed the World--
Kenboy
Zodiac is shown again on dutch tv now.
I love this song
The first time I heard this song was probably the summer of 1967 or 68. What a great time for music! I just saw Zodiac and it jogged my memory.
Great but you're missing one additional gurdy in each chorus.
Listening since way back, when words were prophetic, friendly. Miss those days. His collaboration with several great artists, Harrison et al) gave us great music when it was needed the most.
Who is the Hurdy Gurdy Man Is he Jesus Christ or the Maharishi?
Great song! Loved it when it first came out
Makes me wanna kill !!!
This song is utter crap
It's ok to like a song, but let's not have a wet dream, shall we? Amazing some retard regurgitated this song for a movie it had nothing to do with and people think that is genius - more like cheap marketing. The song has nothing to do with zodiac, the movie or anything else for that matter. Just the ramblings of a fucking hippy tripping on acid. Cool sound, spooky....blah blah blah. Just a fucking song.
Love it....
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