That was before the hippie scene in San Francisco went bad because of the money everyone was making off drugs, et cetera. To call the album electric is probably a little misguiding, as many. 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. Mellow Yellow was Donovanss second electric album, and his second produced by Micky Most. G G7 A A7 Im just mad about Saffron.shes just mad about me. Nothing could have been further from the truth. D G D A Ab G Im just mad about Saffron.Saffrons mad about me. 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. The REAL lyric : I like treacle banana The mishering of this. What a fantastic period to have lived in. I spoke to Donovan just 3 years ago and he loves to tell the story of his banana reference. 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. Offline access to music scores with MuseScore App. One subscription across all of your devices. Some of them were so high on other drugs they never realized it when the sheets fell off. Download and Print scores from huge community collection ( 1,630,884 and growing) Advanced tools to level up your playing skills. Will never forget the beautiful girls walking around with nothing but a white sheet wrapped around them. 'Mellow Yellow' was the name of Donovans hit single released the previous November. G G7 A A7 I'm just mad about Saffron.she's just mad about me. Well, besides rasping our lungs out, it didn't do a thing, but we sure had a great time. D G D A Ab G I'm just mad about Saffron.Saffron's mad about me. 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. So one day we loaded up one of our buddy's cars and headed out for San Francisco from LA during the Easter Break. 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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