DANDELION
(Jagger/Richards)
I don't know how to label the parts of this song (verse, chorus,
bridge), as the structure's pretty unique. In need of additions
- especially the break before the final verse - and probably some
other changes.
Bb C7
Prince or pauper, beggarman or king
Bb C7
Play the game with every flower you bring
Bb Gm
Dandelions all tell no lies
Eb C7
Dandelions will make you wise
Bb Gm
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Eb C7
Blow away dandelion
1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, 5
Dandelions don't care about the time
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
Eb G7
Blow away dandelion
(G7) C C7 G
So you're holding out just the same
C C7 G
You can play the dandelion game
C F7
When you're finished with your childlike prayer
Well you know you should wear it
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor's life
Rich man, poor man, beautiful doctor's wife
Dandelion won't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
Blow away dandelion
Little girls and boys come out to play
Bring your dandelions to blow away
Dandelion won't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
Eb Bb
Blow away dandelion
submitted by:
Ted Hermary
czth@musica.mcgill.ca
TAIL SPIN roller coaster DandiLion Park, Muskego Beach, WI
Formally known as Muskego Beach, DandiLion Park was located just SW of Milwaukee on the southern shores of Muskego Lake. The Tail Spin coaster opened in 1968 after two previous coasters were damaged in severe wind storms. Unfortunately, the parks business started fading after nearby Marriott's Great America opened in Gurnee, Illinois in 1976. DandiLion ended up closing in 1978, and the Tail Spin was eventually demolished in 1983. Another sad ending to a once great coaster.
videographer: Clarence Hinze,
music: Dandelion by The Rolling Stones
WE LOVE YOU - a Subterranean Cinema short film
A short film I created using one of the Rolling Stones greatest songs. Special thanks to the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Tommy Chong, Danny Bonaduce, Andrew Meyer, Walter Mellon, Snide TV, Chris Crossland, Ryan Reznick, Jay Howell, Roger Thomas, Jason Reiner, and Brian Jones.
COMING SOON - "BANNER" (Jimi)
THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG
"We Love You" was first released as Decca single F12654 in the UK by The Rolling Stones on August 18, 1967, with a B-side of "Dandelion" (notice my allusion to that in the opening and closing credits). It went top ten in Britain, peaking at #8, but only made it to #50 in the United States. This single and its flipside would be the final Stones recordings receiving a production credit for band manager Andrew Loog Oldham.
The song is a droning Moroccan influenced anthem of defiance. Outwardly, it was a message from the band to its fans, expressing appreciation for support in the wake of their recent drug busts. It was also an ironic, tongue in cheek slap in the faces of the police harassing them and the Stones' true feelings about it, putting on a cooperative and friendly face while inside they were seething with anger and indignation (as is represented by Brian Jones' unforgettably surreal Mellotron in the background). "We Love You" is a psychedelic collage of jail sounds, Nicky Hopkins' foreboding piano riff, and otherworldly tape delayed vocal effects, featuring a visiting John Lennon and Paul McCartney on high harmonies.
Allen Ginsberg was in London for a pro-marijuana rally in Hyde Park. He met Mick at Paul McCartney's house, and Mick invited the Beat poet to that night's session with Paul and John to record backing vocals for "We Love You". Ginsberg, waving his Shiva beads and a Tibetan oracle ring, conducted the singers from the other side of the studio glass to the tempo of the stuttering Mellotron track. "They looked like little angels," he wrote later of the Stones and the Beatles, "like Botticelli Graces singing together for the first time."
Written in the aftermath of the drugs arrests faced by Jagger and Richards at the Redlands country home of the latter in Sussex that year, the single opens with the sounds of entry into jail, and a cell door clanging shut. The draconian nature of the sentences handed down to the two Stones relative to the charges prompted a stern editorial by The Times in protest. The song's lyric, seemingly an echo of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" broadcast from earlier in the summer, on closer examination espouses a strong anti-establishment posture, proclaiming "we don't care if you hound we and lock the doors around we" and "you will never win we, your uniforms don't fit we."
The band produced an accompanying promotional film for the single (such shorts at this time not yet called videos ), re-enacting the 1895 indecency trial of Oscar Wilde. Firmly connecting the past scandal with the present circumstance, the film had Jagger and Richards, along with Marianne Faithfull, respectively portraying Wilde, the Marquess of Queensbury, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Stones guitarist, Brian Jones also appears heavily under the influence of marijuana in the video (taken from stock footage of rehearsals).
The single was not added to the 2002 reissue of Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) by ABKCO, even though its B-side "Dandelion" is present; it is available on three other compilations, More Hot Rocks, the Singles Collection: The London Years and Rolled Gold+: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones. The remastered version of this track released on the More Hot Rocks collection omits the snippet of "Dandelion", but instead we are treated to the sound of an engineer stopping tape.
LYRICS
We dont care if you only love we
We dont care if you only love we
We love you
We love you
and we hope
that you will love we too
We love they
We love they
and we want
for you to love they too
Ahhhh ...
We dont care if you hound we
and lock the doors around we
Lock us and our minds up
We love you
We love you
You will never win we
Your uniforms dont fit we
We forget the place were in
because we love you
We love you
Of course we do
I love you
I love you
And I hope that you won't prove wrong too
We love you
We do
We love you
We do
Ahhhh ...
Dandelions
Some dude enjoying a skip in dandelions.
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Dandelion Live At EP - Kemang (18 Oct 08)
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