Donovan - Superlungs Lyrics

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Thanks for sharing. It answers a lot of questions I had about this song!

As I recall from ,any years ago Donovan wrote this for Terry Reid.

Thank you dear Lama ;) Love this version, with dedication to all beings.. tashi delek..

Superlungs = grass

Recorded December 1965. Compare this with the music of just 3 years earlier. What a difference!
The British Invasion

This needs a matching video of super lunged females to match its lyrics

You see this kind of chick in every town
Whenever there's a scene she's always hanging around
She's so naïve and innocent,she looks at you with awe
She's only fourteen but she knows how to draw
Superlungs,superlungs
Superlungs,superlungs
Superlungs,She's my supergirl and I love her
Superlungs,She's my supergirl and I love her
Superlungs,She's my supergirl and I love her
Superlungs,She's my supergirl and I love her
She doesn't get involved with blowing her cool
She's too busy getting high with her classmates in school
The people they ignore her,they would if they could
She ain't quite grown up yet but her credence's real good
Superlungs,yay c'mon she's my supergirl,She's my supergirl and I love her
Superlungs,She's my supergirl and I love her
Superlungs,She's my supergirl and I love her
Superlungs,She's my supergirl and I love her

Jontoots Taboots "she is fourteen" exactly why this is a banned version.

Jontoots Taboots it’s ‘BREATHING’ not ‘credence’ 😂

😂 No. the ‘FOURTEEN’ lyrics remained in the version that WAS released and was a global hit record.
This early version was banned because of the references to drugs and ‘getting high’ !

I cant believe how long it is between weed spottings...i hear people go bout, party and even get high...but I've come to believe its just bs. Nothing like USA.

I might be the only one 1998-born peep listening to this.
Ima kms

11/15/98 bitches.

'96 is the best year. It can be translated into '69 when you flip it over, under, sideways, down.

Not the only one

Man I wasn’t even born in the 20th century. It’s not that unique my dude. Plenty of people listen to Donovan

that's great!  Hilarious, really.  makes my lungs hurt just remembering those days.

yes,yes I luv this superlung's song ,,,, ;)

Donovan leitch. Would please release the album 'love is only feeling' on cd!!! Thank you.

Donovan leitch. Would please release the album 'love is only feeling' on cd!!! Thank you.

This version is lightyears better than the one on the Original album....with the organ solo and the terrific outtro.

you are not wrong

This isnt rare
or banned
it was just an outtake from an album that was re-recorded for a different album

I thought it was banned by the record label, and that Donovan intended it as a single.

Seeing as when he finally released it on the Barabajagal LP he changed the lyrics to 'Supergirl' and 'painting sky with her classmates in school', it was probably being blocked by the record lables because of the references to drug use. It was a very conservative time and nobody had written songs like this before

@Serotoneuk 'she knows how to draw' was taken as reference to oral sex, giving point to the 'superlungs' title.

@ray s not at all... 'draw' is in reference to "taking a drag" or "drawing" off a spliff, which is where 'Superlungs' fits in.

like the barabajagal version much better

i don' t why people are saying Terry Reid 's version is better, its almost a completely different song than this one.

Yes , it is the same song. Donovan wrote it but Terry's version is much better in my opinion..they were friends and shared the same record producer, Mickie Most. Terry also does a version of Donovan's "Season of the Witch"

This version doesn't appear on his 1868 LP which I still have

1968!!!

Is there any connection with a certain Terry Reid, who had a whole album of this name?

love this version! cheers for posting!

@doglips1958,
This is the first version from the Sunshine Superman sessions that first appeared on the Troubador 2 CD collection from 20 years ago now, man...time flies! On the latest deluxe reissue of Superman you'll find an alternate longer version as well. A third version was recorded and found as bonus tracks on the most recent Mellow Yellow reissue.
The song however never appeared officially until 1969, in its fourth version (rec 1968), on the 'Barabajagal' LP.

twenty-five years ago?  God help us.

That's where I first heard it too! Oh Donovan, this is a amazing recording/song, could the girl been older though? This might have been written when he was still a teen himself. He was very young when he made it big!

Donovan sings this about ME! :)

there are actually 4 known versions now...with the latest 2011 reissue of Sunshine Superman, we get to hear an alternate and longer version of this, which is the very first version, an absolute stormer recorded in April 1966.
It was done again in November 1966 according to the info on the 2005 reissue of Mellow Yellow, another cool version...then we have the one released only in 1969 on Barabajagal. and yeah, lyrics certainly played a part for this not being released...

I like this version :-)

hadn't heard this version. dig it.

she's too busy getting high with her classmates in school :)