Country Joe And The Fish - Happiness Is A Porpoise Mouth Lyrics






The white ducks fly on past the sun
Their wings flash silver at the moon
While waters rush down the mountain tongue
My organs play a circus tune
I dance to the wonder of your feet
And sing to the joy of your knees
The cold white dress on the mountain breast
Paints the frozen trees.

The maple plants patterns in the sky
Its leaves to kiss the wind
While scores of glittering bugs and flies
Dance polkas on her limbs
I whistle symphonies of your face
And laugh for your hair so fine
In startled greens of playground grass
A child jumps rope to rhyme.

Reeds and brass, the marching drums
Make a joyous sound
Trees bend low with nuts and plums
Then fall to find the ground
I hunger for your porpoise mouth
And stand erect for love
The sun burns up the winter sky
And all the earth is love.





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  1. H.... R....

    Lotta acid c.1968

  2. D.... I....

    66 Brugata. Vanguard Stereolab, Imported by Halvard Kvåle(RIP) Dag

  3. �.... �....

    а есть песня про старика Кабаева ,который всех граждан России "сзывает заняться любовью в кусты" ?

  4. G.... M....

    Can never get enough of this. It's been like 7 years. Always keep coming back.

  5. B.... M....

    "I hunger for your porpoise mouth and stand erect for love"?
    What 's the deep, hidden meaning?

    B.... M....

    Need You Ask?

  6. T.... C....

    One of my all-time faves.

  7. S.... ....

    This music will make you happy if you listen to it every day :)

  8. M.... J....

    It’s always crazy to be reminded this song is only 2:51 the place it takes me always thinks otherwise, every time

  9. R.... B....

    Amazing !!!

  10. v.... ....

    the music ever

  11. M.... ....

    Памяти Станислава Говорухина! Царствие Небесное!

  12. M.... C....

    Sure ........I ran from Juvey [juvenile detention] a few thousand miles....... I was 16 when I hit Cal. Haight was too greasy . Camped at big Sur. The next guy down the beach named Elliot showed me a pack sack full of grass told me to help myself. The little pockets on the outside had blue cheer on the left and orange barrel sunshine on the right.
    Walking around the beach enlightened with "Ice plants" going sqush sqush between my toes. Went north. Dropped in at Keseys farm outside Eugene. Must have been 67........I remember it well

    M.... C....

    That's cool lol

  13. 5.... ....

    This was the music of my childhood, yes, this song. Priceless.

    5.... ....

    Being born in 94, music from my day was not so great. No one I know is into this stuff. It makes me sad. I can only talk to people who are 45 or older about music I like.

  14. 5.... ....

    The Vietnam War was raging when this song came out. When I hear this, I think of the Great War that almost got me.

  15. e.... b....

    wow, haven't heard this in about 100 years!

  16. C.... C....

    I really love good poetry!!!...)O(

  17. S.... P....

    I know. It's only rock 'n' roll. But imagine, if you will, being a 15-year-old boy – wide open to the world – 500 miles north of San Francisco, not far from Kesey's farm East of Eugene, a college & logger's town, at the height of the civil rights movement and just as the nation’s sentiment began to turn against the war in Vietnam. Along with the Rev. Dr. King’s and Oregon U.S. Senator Morse’s indictments regarding race and Vietnam, the fundamental legitimacy of the established order had never in our history been questioned on such a scale – and that questioning seems to be reflected in songs like “Porpoise Mouth” which dropped like a pebble into our pool of collective consciousness, songs, it seems, in stark contrast to the flat, starch-white dominated and heavily utilitarian, disenchanted society against which some sixties youth seem to rebel. Like Lennon’s “Strawberry Fields Forever,” Hendrix’s “The Wind Cries Mary” and Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man,” Country Joe and the Fish’s “Porpoise Mouth,” not so much its lyrics but its melancholy melody, stands in stark contrast to the inauthenticities and hypocrisies of American society. Such songs evoke a search among (some) sixties youth for a society worth living in and working for, or so it seems. Like poetry, music at its best tells memorable stories and it's only through listening to those stories that listeners learn important facts about themselves, about who and what they are, about what it is to win and what it is to be defeated (Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain"); what it is to be at home in the world and what it is to find oneself a stranger (e.g., Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"); what the ties of friendship (e.g., Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here") are and what it is to be condemned to friendlessness (e.g., Lennon's "How Do You Sleep?"); and about what we owe to the living and to the dead.

    S.... P....

    👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

    S.... P....

    And what the hell happened to all those idealized young rebels who were going to change the world? My god, you were lit like stars, as wise as Dylan, as sweet as incense, girded for civil war and human rights and gender/racial equality but instead we got... MacDonalds and Jerry Springer and Survivor, Dancing with the Stars and the consummate American Psycho, Donald Trump. Answer for yourselves. The world is waiting.

    S.... P....

    How come I didn't know about this song when I was doing Acid.

    S.... P....

    Send your comment to The New Yorker. You write, right?

  18. J.... S....

    This is the music that shaped my growing awareness that something was terrible wrong in America.

  19. M.... ....

    You gotta just love this: beat poetry to early psychedelic rock. The Fish were a very talented band and the times then were themselves 'electric'.

  20. G.... A....

    Had this album back in the day...Thanks for posting

    G.... A....

    Still have it - and I cherish it, even with all the nicks, scratches and beer stains on the cover. Should have bought two!

  21. t.... ....

    вот жеж - старик Козлодоев)))

    t.... ....

    музыка похожа

    t.... ....

    даже не музыка, а мотив

    t.... ....

    RobinHood прослушай на скорости 1,5.

    t.... ....

    Просто БГ упер мотив

  22. C.... ....

    My favorite Country Joe and the Fish song. Beautiful lyrics and music, great to dance to! Saw them first in the Panhandle in the Haight on April 14, 1967. CBS ( against my permission AND I had been asked AND replied why I was saying no ) filmed me at that concert and inserted the footage into the infamous The Hippie Temptation" and the footage was edited into footage of the Grateful Dead. But it had been a Country Joe and the Fish concert that I had been to ( though, for the record, I had been lucky enough to see both bands several times ).

    C.... ....

    +CydnotCharrise1 tell me you dance it like walch with your wife / housband... ^_^

    C.... ....

    Me too and the girl next to me, l🐱

  23. a.... b....

    one of the best songs ever, such an underrated singer songwriter

    a.... b....

    а есть песня про старика Кабаева ,который всех граждан России "сзывает заняться любовью в кусты" ?

  24. 1.... H....

    I love this song~

  25. A.... A....

    God I love this song.  It's the song that runs through my head when I can' t sleep and makes me feel young.  I love you Joe Mcdonald!!!

    A.... A....

    This is pretty much the prettiest love-song there ever were!

  26. e.... e....

    сползает по крыше старик козлодоев

  27. p.... h....

    Released the same day as Sergeant Pepper, a real classic; love it.

  28. S.... B....

    Brilliant

  29. n.... ....

    Brings me back to San Francisco in the 60's where I saw them for free in the park. Thanks for posting this song.

  30. �.... �....

    im in love :)

  31. G.... F....

    love this.

  32. t.... ....

    will never tire of this tune!

  33. E.... G....

    love this song

  34. s.... ....

    more cowbell!!!

  35. l.... ....

    really creepy. thanks for posting.