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"Mellow Yellow"

— by Donovan Leitch

My mother was just so absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt certain, that this song HAD to be about drugs. "They're smoking bananas!!" she would scream to me. And so, out of spite, I would sing this song — often.

When this song came out in 1966, there was a widespread rumor that it was about getting high on banana skins. The idea was that you scraped the fibers off of a banana skin and cooked them over a low fire. This was supposed to release the hallucinogenic qualities. Of course, it was never true! The song was in truth, inspired by the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine." Donovan was good friends with The Beatles and did some recording at Abbey Road studios helping out with the writing of "Yellow Submarine." It was Donovan who came up with the line, "Sky of blue, sea of green." In kind, Paul McCartney provided some of the whispering on "Mellow Yellow" as thank-you.

I'm just mad about Saffron
Saffron's mad about me
I'm just mad about Saffron
She's just mad about be

They call me mellow yellow
Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow
Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow

I'm just mad about Fourteen
Fourteen's mad about me
I'm just mad about Fourteen
She's just mad about me

They call me mellow yellow
Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow
Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow

Born high forever to fly
Wind velocity nil
Born high forever to fly
If you want your cup I will fill

They call me mellow yellow
Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow
Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow

So mellow, he's so yellow

FAVORITE QUOTE

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." — Berthold Auerbach

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The star on my pages was a graphic that I made personally in 1994 when I was first learning how to do animations. This star has been a standard on my Rattt Trap pages since their creation in 1994; specifically my newsletter pages, The Back Fence.