The Pot Smoker's Song

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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