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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

Comments/Interpretations
by dan on 5/19/2008 9:59am love it in lie
by BeeRyan on 5/23/2008 12:33am When the truth gets buried deep Beneath a thousand years asleep Time demands a turnaround And once again, the truth is found
by Paul Avery on 5/31/2008 3:00am 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.
by Jeff Segarich on 6/8/2008 2:34am I heard it in Zodiac too! Love this song now, it's one of my favourites
by izz on 6/12/2008 1:10pm This songs amazing, same with cmnt above, loved since Zodiac :)
by Maggie on 6/18/2008 10:37pm It's got great lyrics and the song altogether is very psychedelic.
by Rich Bondie on 6/21/2008 10:15am A great song long forgotten. Pulled up and out of my memory bank thanks to Zodiac.
by Jellybum-inc on 6/22/2008 10:56pm 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
by Jellybum-inc on 6/22/2008 10:57pm Also.. I heard the Butthole Surfers cover of it the other night.. shocking, absolutly shocking
by chris on 7/4/2008 9:20pm song was great for L.I.E.
by Tbilisi on 7/5/2008 6:10pm Zodiac is the great movie and this is the greatest song!
by Dianne on 7/10/2008 8:28pm Donovan sang this song around the same time he also sang "Atlantis", another haunting song. . . It was a long time ago
by Dim on 7/14/2008 9:00am i heard this song in the movie "Man of the year" and completely fell in love with it. it's such a grat song.
by gerrry on 7/20/2008 2:41pm 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!!
by Zodiac on 7/20/2008 10:53pm this song really rocks!!!
by hill10003 on 7/21/2008 2:02pm First heard this song in movie Zodiac. Awesome.
by alice on 7/24/2008 1:16pm 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.
by rob on 7/27/2008 2:46am donovan Jimmy Paige John Paul Jones John Bonham all in this song need i say more?
by This is Zodiac Speaking on 7/31/2008 2:20am i love this song!
by Zodiac Killer on 8/1/2008 1:20am Original...
by snape on 8/1/2008 9:57pm No sooner than i heard the first of the song in the movie, i have fallen love with it for grim death
by the on 8/10/2008 1:41am 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.
by Bounty Hunter on 8/12/2008 9:39pm Classy reply there "the". Why don't you enlighten us about Donavan Leitch oh masterful one? Low-life.
by nihili on 8/15/2008 8:35am 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
by derek12753 on 8/15/2008 9:35am 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
by Dave P on 8/24/2008 10:27pm 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;
by Scott on 8/28/2008 1:54am 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....
by Scott T on 8/28/2008 2:36am 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.
by Hans K. on 8/28/2008 2:38pm First time I heard this song was in Zodiac. Great movie.
by GORDON on 8/30/2008 7:59pm 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 ...
by Dave D. on 9/2/2008 12:42am 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! :)
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........
by The Remnant on 9/6/2008 7:41pm Awesome song, Trippy!
by Jeff on 9/7/2008 12:07am CHILDREN ALL! Hell, kids, I was in college having already been in the navy. ;-)
by Glen Sherman on 9/14/2008 6:39pm 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!
by Patrick on 9/23/2008 3:40am 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.
by Pam on 9/27/2008 8:11am 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.
by Robby on 10/12/2008 10:20am This song would be great in a last part for a skate vid.
by I am not Paul Avery on 11/1/2008 4:49pm lols, nice song
by geoffroy on 11/6/2008 12:02am I love this music.
by Mackenzie Mae on 11/10/2008 7:55am This song always reminds me of what I thought Jesus was. Now I just think it's about hippies. I still love it.
by A.L.A. on 11/10/2008 10:58pm hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdyman....U'll Never Catch me...
by Adriano on 11/29/2008 3:48pm 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.
by Nocares on 12/2/2008 12:45am Nice. They didn't get him by the way. Sorry
by tr on 12/3/2008 9:13am The use of the song in Zodiac, as some sort of demented anthemn for the killer is pure genius.
by Greg on 12/10/2008 8:45pm 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.)
by neo xavier on 12/24/2008 12:31am awesome song...loved it since zodiac..
by Mike D in Indy on 12/29/2008 4:50pm 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!
by kelly on 1/2/2009 12:43am cool song but the BUTTHOLE SURFERS did a way better cover of it. sounds good while you're on nitrous too!
by john on 1/3/2009 10:32am Beautiful song and very good movie. I hope people take advantage of this and try to listen other beautiful songs of that era.
by steven on 1/8/2009 3:27pm The all time best version of this is by the Butthole Surfers
by Vez J on 1/12/2009 1:42am 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??
by Hannibal on 1/12/2009 11:04am I ran into this song because of the Zodiac movie, i did like the movie, but looove the song, really groovy sound.
by brian on 1/16/2009 8:18pm lets get this straight does jimmy page play guitar on this song or not?
by Rick Marshall on 1/20/2009 9:04am I also first heard this song watching "Zodiac". Great song, great movie. Real crazy case. Kind of made me want to become a detective.
by ItsMezigz on 2/7/2009 11:49am The Butthole surfers did an excellent cover of this song off locust abortion tech
by LeD on 2/18/2009 1:15am ThIs iS dEfiNiTeLy a cOoL sOnG... i fIrSt hEaRd iT on "ZoDiAc" then on "BobBy".. ReMiNdS mE oF tHe 60's & 70's..m/
by caidoz on 2/23/2009 6:36am to the zodiac, you sure got what you wanted, who will be next to step up.
by Luke Mitchell on 2/26/2009 4:43am Hurdy Gurdy Man is an alltime psychedelic classic, so much so I am using some of the lyrics in my second book.
by Don on 2/26/2009 12:24pm Donovan rules.
by arkham29 on 3/7/2009 2:57am i guess we all have zodiac minds... hehehehehehe..
by arkham29 on 3/7/2009 2:59am i keep singing songs of love hurdy, gurdy, hurdy, gurdy, hurdy i sang i feel like the zodiac
by JasonBrown on 5/2/2009 9:13pm Downloaded this song as soon as I heard it in "Zodiac"...Now I m really mesmerized by this song..Its truly magical.
by yah a hamburger on 6/1/2009 1:27pm 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.
by VeMan on 6/9/2009 7:38pm 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.
by borker on 6/19/2009 10:37am the hurdy gurdy man is scary...
by aardvark on 7/18/2009 6:18pm 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
by zodiac XD on 7/27/2009 2:47pm i loved this song since the first time i heard it and i heard it back on zodiac and its just amazing!
by Leila on 8/2/2009 10:32pm I love it too, i heard it on the commercial for Zodiac, since then i adore it, and am learning it on Guitar.
by Dave on 8/12/2009 7:40am Zodiac powa! Would be better with less "no singing" part :P
by annonymus(who cares for spellings!) on 8/13/2009 11:17am "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
by JOHN BONHAM on 8/19/2009 6:38pm 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!
by mart�n on 10/12/2009 5:30am this thread is quickly making me dislike the zodiac film which i now have no interest in watching
by Leeboy (philippines) on 10/17/2009 2:44am 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!
by BJ on 10/22/2009 7:48am Song has a completely different take in the film "L.I.E." Who'd have thunk? ;)
by Danno on 11/12/2009 4:38am great tune, cant get enough

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