Vegetable Man

Album: The Early Years 1965-1972 (1967)
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  • In yellow shoes I get the blues
    Though I walk the streets with my plastic feet
    With blue velvet trousers, makes me feel pink
    There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
    In my paisley shirt I look a jerk
    And my turquoise waistcoat is quite out of sight
    But oh oh my haircut looks so bad
    Vegetable man, where are you?

    So I change my gear, and I find my knees
    And I cover them up with the latest cut
    And my pants and socks are bought in a box
    It don't take long to buy nylon socks
    The watch, black watch
    My watch with a black face
    And a date in a little hole
    And all the lot is what I got
    It's what I wear, it's what you see
    It must be me, it's what I am
    Vegetable man (where are you?)

    I've been looking all over the place for a place for me
    But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere
    Vegetable man, vegetable man
    Vegetable man, vegetable man
    Vegetable man, vegetable man
    Vegetable man
    He's the kind of fella you just gotta see if you can
    Vegetable man Writer/s: Syd Barrett
    Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
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  • Luxxury from LaI discovered this gem when The Jesus and Mary Chain released a cover as a B side to their single "Upside Down" - pure weird magic!
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