Album: Velvet Gloves and Spit (1968)

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• La la la
  Pot, pot gimme some pot
  Forget what you are,
  You can be what you're not
  High, high I want to get high
  You never give it up
  If you give it a try...
  La la la la
  (teenage vocals)
  La la la
  Pot, pot gimme some pot
  Forget what you are,
  You can be what you're not
  Do, do take a family cruise
  You with your grass,
  Mom and Dad with their booze
  Ooo ooo
  La la la la
  (teenage vocals)
  La la la
  Pot, pot gimme some pot
  Forget what you are
  You can be what you're not
  Tough, tough the world is so tough
  And when it gets harder,
  You can try stuff ,uh uh
  (teenage vocals)
  La la la
  Pot, pot gimme some pot
  Forget what you are,
  You can be what you're not
  Hip, hip you want to be hip
  You're no one at all
  If you don't take a trip
  Pot pot gimme some pot
  Forget what you are,
  You can be what you're not
  Hip, hip you want to be hip
  You're no one at all
  If you don't take a trip Writer/s: DIAMOND
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

• Kiyup2 from Sw FlHaha I remember my mom listening to this on her big console stereo. I couldn’t have been more than 3-4, as it was before we moved out of the house she shared with my Dad. My mom was a huge Neil Diamond fan, having attended the same performing arts school as him and Barbra Streisand- Erasmus Hall Performing Arts School in Brooklyn, but mom was in the theatre program
• David from Youngstown, OhThe Velvet Glove and Spit album, Neil's first on the Uni Record label, is one of his best and definitely his most underrated. Commercially it was a flop and a disappointment to the label because Neil had several hits - Cherry, Cherry; Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon, Thank the Lord for the Night Time - before the signing. The album includes several great songs such as Two-Bit Manchild, Brooklyn Roads and Shilo. The Pot Smoker's Song is not one of them. It's one of Neil's worst. The chorus, sung by Neil and some background female singers, is catchy, but this isn't a song you enjoy when you hear it.

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