![]() ![]() That was before the hippie scene in San Francisco went bad because of the money everyone was making off drugs, et cetera. G G7 A A7 I'm just mad about Saffron.she's just mad about me. We stuck out like sore thumbs, but everyone was really cool and it didn't seem to matter that we weren't dressed like all of them. D G D A Ab G I'm just mad about Saffron.Saffron's mad about me. Difficulty: intermediate: Capo: no capo: Author Neckwringer a 273,811. The music mix was done by the Dust Brothers. Nothing could have been further from the truth. In 1999, 'Mellow Yellow' was sung by a group of young adults, among whom were then-unknowns Alex Greenwald, Rashida Jones and Jason Thompson, in Gap's 'Everybody in Cords ' commercial directed by Pedro Romhanyi. Just remembered that we even went to the extent of making our own peace sign pendants from thin copper rods and solder in Metal Shop so we might fit in to the crowd. What a fantastic period to have lived in. Quite an eye bulging experience for 3 - 17 year-old guys at the time! Sure wish someone would organize one more love-in just to have the chance to relive that day. Jazz Ensemble Sheet Music by Donovan Leitch: Mellow Yellow (Medium Swing). Some of them were so high on other drugs they never realized it when the sheets fell off. Will never forget the beautiful girls walking around with nothing but a white sheet wrapped around them. Well, besides rasping our lungs out, it didn't do a thing, but we sure had a great time. So we thought, "What the Heck! Let's try it!". When we arrived at Golden Gate Park sure enough, all of the hippies were smoking what they called "Mellow Yellow"! We asked one guy what the high was like and he said it just mellowed you out and it was perfectly legal to smoke it. The REAL lyric : I like treacle banana The mishering of this. All right reserved by Epic Records, a division of S. ![]() So one day we loaded up one of our buddy's cars and headed out for San Francisco from LA during the Easter Break. I spoke to Donovan just 3 years ago and he loves to tell the story of his banana reference. Provided to YouTube by Epic/LegacyMellow Yellow DonovanThe Essential Donovan Originally released 1966. When this song first came out we thought it was about smoking the white stuff scraped from the inside of banana peels, too. ![]()
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