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Mellow Yellow Lyrics
Artist: Donovan
Mellow Yellow
Donovan
I'm just mad about Saffron
Saffron's mad about me
I'm just mad about Saffron
She's just mad about me
{Refrain}
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
{Refrain}
Born high forever to fly
Wind velocity nil
Wanna high forever to fly
If you want your cup our fill
{Refrain}
(So mellow, he's so yellow)
Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase
They call it mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Saffron -- yeah
I'm just mad about her
I'm just mad about Saffron
She's just mad about me
{Refrain}
(Oh so yellow, oh so mellow)
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I love this song!
i freakin love this song...its my showcase dance
i love this song!! my father's group play it. it's very nice
i luv this song!!
your lyrics are wrong.:)
THE CALL ME MELLOW JELLO!
no, they call you mellow faggot. Don't try to change the lyrics on such a good song you suck ass
Donovan blows!
dude you don't know what the fuck you are talkin about this song is awesome. you probly like the crap.
you can't spell crap without rap.
This is my favorite song!!!!I also play it on the piano!!!!!Its so fun!!!:) <3
The big Yellow electric banana is a vibrator....da.
Good song though
heh heh... I used to listen to this song on the jukebox at a coffee shop when I was 14. Smoking cigarettes and grooving with my friends over a cup of java.
In case you youngsters don't realize it... this era was the musical Renaissance of the past few decades. I'm so blessed to have grown up during that period.
Donvan and real rock rules hip hop and rap have no soul. New songs use the music from older songs because their is a lack or talent or soul music
is dead
the song is cool, i just dont understand what it means!!!!!!
Thanx for the memories. God, what a time we had. Itchycoo Park and all that!
This song is pretty nice, but why is he singing about electric bananas?
Shop-rite does the can-can..........I won't be back.So do as you like''''''''''''
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The song's all about a vibrator. I learned about it in my History of Rock 'n' Roll class in college.
I THINK THE REFRAIN SHOULD GO:
{Refrain}
They call me mellow yellow
(RIGHT'S RIGHT'S = LEFT)
They call me mellow yellow
(RIGHT'S RIGHT'S = LEFT)
They call me mellow yellow
i uvv this song i get high to it and stairway to heaven allll he time
uhhhhh donovan already admitted to this song being about a yellow vibrator
They call me Mellow Yellow :)
its so inbarising wen my mum sings the song
i love this song beceuse my dad allways sings it to me
Electrical Banana is a group that Donovan discovered playing in some club in England was the story that came out at the time. They recoded a few songs on some label.
a magical song that is quite rightly loved.and Donavan lives in Castlemagner.good for him.
I drink Mellow Yellow.
Lyrics close, except for this verse:
Born high forever to fly
Wind velocity nil
Born high forever to fly
If you want your cup I'll fill
Bit of an egotistical song :-)
awesome song! that's paul mccartney whipering, "quite rightly".
bitchen song!!
A song that I like very much
Where did some of you people learn to be so rude. Obviously not brought up, but DRAGGED up. Do you think it is SMART! Very deluded if you do. Have some respect for your fellow human beings!
i just freaken love mello yello
I've heard different explanations for the lyrics.
1. People experimenting with smoking banana peels.
2.Electric viberator
3. A small band called 'Electric Banana' Donovan saw in a small night club and can be found on Youtube.com playing in Vietnam. A garage band at best !
there is a very nice coffee shop in Amsterdam that has been there since the 70's named Mellow Yellow after the song...
Back when it came out, we were told it was about smoking banana peels so some tried it. Not a good idea.
I also believe Saffron was a drug reference but wasn't into that scene. Loved the music though.
I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT SAFFRON IS
A VERY EXPENCIVE SPICE FOR I WORK
AT A GROCERY STORE AND WE SELL IT
BUT HOW THEY GOT THE LYRICS TO THE
SONG DONOVAN MUST OF BEEN STONED
The time from late summer 1966 to early summer 1967 - the period that begins with the Beatles release of Revolver and ends with Sgt.Pepper - was the real high point of the Sixties
The time from late summer 1966 to early summer 1967 - the period that begins with the Beatles release of Revolver and ends with Sgt.Pepper - was the real high point of the Sixties, and Donovan was flying as high as he says in the song then.
I always thought the refrain was, "Quite right, slick!' Hahahaha Cool old song
they call me smello Jello
Donovan stated "This song is for all the blondes out there." before he sang the song Mellow Yellow at the FREE Syracuse NY Jazz Fest at Jamesville Beach State Park on June 23, 2012. He was awesome!!! I was told he sings for free. He is definetely not "all about the money." He didn't sell anything. He signed fans' t-shirts and album covers after the concert. I love you Donovan!!!
No the reference to the electrical banana is definitely to do with smoking banana peels. The earlier references were correct. That was indeed the buzz of the day when that song was current. Sorry to disappoint the pervs! The rumour was that a "Beatle" (Lennon was most mentioned) had slipped into the studio and said "quite right, slim" during the recording. I don't quite believe it, but at least the phrase sounds closer to what was uttered than "quite rightly". That is simply not what's said.
The song is about a vibrator, or dildo. Meaning, figuratively it´s a dildo who is singing.
And Donovan really rocks, mind you.
wow love the song but i am sure if someone out there knows Donovan personally maybe they could just ask the man what the heck this song was referring to. just saying!! please someone out there help with this one
correction to lyrics . last line of verse 3 is
'if you want to cop how I feel'
cop meant understand
To cop is to grasp. To cop a feel is to grasp a feel. But, grasp is also referred to understanding. To grasp a subject. :P
Isn't the lyric: -
"I'm just mad about Fonteyn"
... as in Dame Margot ?
First of all, I still don't know what it means, but wouldn't it be a great name for a Yellow Lab (dog, that is...)?
I thought the second item he was mad about was 'Fontain' and at least once in the song he states, ' quite rightsly '.
Easy kiddies,
Electrical banana is an elec guitar.
And isn't "fourteen" Fountaine, a female name?
They call it mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
If I remember correctly, it is:
They call it mellow yellow
(quite right slick)
Fourteen is supposedly a yellow(mellow) cheese called fontine but I like fourteen better :: )
I'm 65 years old and I've always had my suspicions about this song, thanks to a lot of you I know now what I've been thinking is probably correct. Just a thought
Donovan was, in a way, paying tribute to his teeny bob fourteen year old groupie girls. He was 'mad' about them and the things they would temp him to do.
The rats, the rats, get them off me, get them off me. Lee Decker, Good Friday, 1984.
I’m a child of the 60s...it’s totally about drugs, drugs, drugs. Smoking banana peels was a faze (didn’t work) back then. Saffron, reds and yellows.
I still remember the yardley makeup company using wear your love like heaven on tv commercials!