Syd Barrett – 1970

Lyrics/Muziek: Syd Barrett

De song werd begin van deze eeuw gebruikt als jingle bij de Franse radio
voor het programma “Radio Nova” dat een mengeling aan jazz, blues, electronic en zelfs rock muziek liet horen. Ze hadden een voorkeur voor Radiohead en Pink floyd.

Terug te vinden op:

Barrett
Syd Barrett
The Peel Sessions
Crazy Diamond
Wouldn’t you Miss Me
The radio One sessions
An Introduction To Syd Barrett

Songtekst:

An Effervescing Elephant
with tiny eyes and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next June he’d die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam.
The little one said: ‘Oh my goodness I must stay at home!
and every time I hear a growl
I’ll know the tiger’s on the prowl
and I’ll be really safe, you know
the elephant he told me so.’
Everyone was nervy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippo-plankton food
and tended to ignore the word
preferring to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
And all the jungle took fright,
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain, because, you see,
the tiger came and said: ‘Who me?!
You know, I wouldn’t hurt not one of you.
I’d much prefer something to chew
and you’re all to scant.’ oh yeah!
He ate the Elephant