Lyrics to San Francisco Be Sure to Wear Flowers in your Hair

San Francisco 

Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair 

Lyrics

"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is an American pop music song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie that is redolent of the 1960s, anti-war / give peace a chance, flower power and the hippie subculture. 

The song was produced and released in May 1967 by Phillips and Lou Adler, who used it to promote their Monterey International Pop Music Festival held in June of that year. John Phillips played guitar on the recording and session musician Gary L Coleman played orchestra bells and chimes. The bass line of the song was supplied by session musician Joe Osborn. Hal Blaine played drums.

McKenzie's version of the song has been called "the unofficial anthem of the counterculture movement of the 1960s". The song is credited with bringing thousands of young people to San Francisco, California, during the late 1960s.

In Central Europe, young people adopted "San Francisco" as an anthem for freedom, and it was widely played during Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring uprising.

The song has been featured in several films, including Frantic, The Rock, and Forrest Gump. Episode 2 in season 1 of "Getting On (U.S. TV series)" featured the song, as it was sung by one of the patients and was used over the episode's closing credits. It was also played occasionally by Led Zeppelin as part of the improvised section in the middle of "Dazed and Confused". U2's Bono also led the audience in singing this song during their PopMart performances in the San Francisco Bay Area on June 18 and 19, 1997.

San Francisco - the Lyrics

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there.

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Should you want to have a sing-along of some of these old favorites - here are the words to the lyrics: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/forrestgump/sanfranciscobesuretowearsomeflowersinyourhair.htm

In case you're too young to remember it, or forget it - here is an audio track of San Francisco to jog your grey cells: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ow10_scott-mckenzie-san-francisco_music

You can get a copy of Scott McKenzie singing this classic at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/San-Francisco-Scott-Mckenzie/dp/B000007224/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1392331628&sr=1-1&keywords=San+Francisco










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HAIR Lyrics of the theme song from the famous musical of the same name

"HAIR" 

Lyrics of the theme song from the famous

musical of the same name

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. 

A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. 

After an Off-Broadway debut in October 1967 the show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, including a successful London production that ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including the 3 million-selling original Broadway cast recording. Some of the songs from its score became Top 10 hits, and a feature film adaptation was released in 1979. A Broadway revival opened on March 31, 2009, earning strong reviews and winning the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for best revival of a musical. (1)

"HAIR" (2)

(Lyrics of the theme song from the famous musical of the same name, one of a number of famous songs from the musical. The lyrics were by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and the music by Galt MacDermot)

She asks me why, why I'm just a hairy guy.
I'm hairy noon and nighty night night, my hair is a fright.
I'm hairy high and low, but don't ask me why, cause he don't know.
It's not for lack of bread, like the Grateful Dead.
Darlin'

Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair.
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen.
Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer hair
Here baby, there, momma, ev'rywhere, daddy, daddy.

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair. Flow it, show it, long as I can grow it, my hair.

I'd let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees, give a home to the fleas in my hair.
A home for the fleas, a hive for the buzzin' bees,
A nest for birds, there ain't no words for the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of my:

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it, long as I can grow it, my hair

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty,
Oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, streaming, gleaming, flaxen, waxen,
Knotted, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, braided,
Powdered, flowered and confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled and spahettied.

Oh say, can you see my eyes? 
If you can, then my hair's too short.

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair.Flow it, show it,
Long as God can grow it, my hair

They'll be ga-ga at the go-go when they see me in my toga,
My toga meade of blond, brilliantined, biblical hair.
My hair like Jesus wore it, Halleluja I adore it, Halleluja Mary loved her son,why don't my mother love me?

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it, my hair

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair
Folw it, show it
Long as God can grow it, my hair

HAIR

(1) The full wiki on the musical HAIR is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_(musical)

(2) For this and other lyrics, see:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/hair-lyrics-hair.html

You can get a copy of the musical through Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Hair-John-Savage/dp/B001549RMW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392253061&sr=8-1&keywords=Hair+musical

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