Elton John - Solar Prestige A Gammon Lyrics






Oh ma cameo molesting
Kee pa a poorer for tea
Solar prestige a gammon
Lantern or turbert paw kwee

Solar prestige a gammon
Kool kar kyrie kay salmon
Har ring molassis abounding
Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin

Cod ee say oo pay a loto
My zeta prestige toupay a floored
Ray indee pako a gammon
Solar prestige a pako can nord





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  1. j.... ....

    Never understood this jam, even as a kid, but ALWAYS grooved on it! To this day, I have so many fav's of Elton's, but this one.......definitely rockin'! 12/22/19 PEACE & LOVE

  2. T.... E....

    I think this is his most brilliant song because it's in gibberish.

  3. T.... E....

    "Cod de sayo payalotto" IM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF

  4. b.... ....

    i was today years old when i realized that this song means absolutely nothing! my dad too! either way, this has to be one of the most underrated elton songs

  5. g.... ....

    Could you love Bernie and Elton any more? lol

  6. M.... P....

    Forse il peggior album del periodo d'oro di Elton John

  7. M.... P....

    They are crazy

  8. S.... J....

    I just giggle the whole time this is playing 😂

  9. K.... M....

    Makes more sense than most of the people I know.Nothing 🤔

  10. C.... ....

    Groovy!

  11. P.... K....

    I started singing this today for no reason. Then found it and I still know all the 'words'.

  12. A.... P....

    Gammon, salmon, sardines, herring, molasses, flounder, more of a shopping list lol 😎👍

  13. S.... J....

    While listening to this I can never ever be sad.

  14. S.... B....

    Loved this as a teenager ... still love it at 45

  15. C.... S....

    It's hilarious that people think the song has meaning, or that it is being sung in another language. I was a teen when it was released. At that time, I think everyone who liked EJ knew it was gibberish and just a goofy, fun song!

  16. M.... W....

    I love singing this out loud. People think I'm speaking Spanish or something. lol

  17. J.... D....

    Great song🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

  18. S.... G....

    LOL fan 1969 gibber jabber, love it, you can sell anything! Lucky kids!

  19. M.... R....

    I just love this silly song.

  20. L.... R....

    Oh ma cameo molesting
    Kee pa a poorer for tea
    Solar prestige a gammon
    Lantern or turbert paw kwee

    Solar prestige a gammon
    Kool kar kyrie kay salmon
    Har ring molassis abounding
    Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin

    Cod ee say oo pay a loto
    My zeta prestige toupay a floored
    Ray indee pako a gammon
    Solar prestige a pako can nord

  21. m.... w....

    I think i'll teach this song to my 6 year old!!

  22. C.... ....

    Taupin's lyric was inspired by these pseudo-foreign lyrics from The Beatles' "Sun King":
    Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carazón
    Mundo paparazzi mi amore chica ferdi para sol
    Questo obrigado tanto mucho que canite carousel

    C.... ....

    no sorry, that was Klaatu

  23. j.... ....

    It is amazing how lyrics come back after decades. I loved this silly song and loved singing it. :)

  24. E.... ....

    Maybe it was thru endless playing of this song at age 13 when it came out that when I went to college I became a foreign language major !!!!!

  25. b.... ....

    Osca da buta...oota oota...osca da buta...oota ay yo...osca da buta...oota oota...booska, booska, booska bay yo...

  26. d.... L....

    sound french?

  27. D.... M....

    Lighten up bitches brilliant

  28. S.... M....

    I remember how much Bernie Taupin's lyrics were dissected at that time. I figured this was his "I Am The Walrus".

  29. S.... M....

    The most profound and moving lyric written by Taupin

  30. D.... B....

    Beautiful Music! Give Them HELL ELTON😋

  31. K.... ....

    "OH MY, CARRY ON MOLESTIIIIING!"

    K.... ....

    Oh my gooooddd ahahaa

    K.... ....

    actually, it's "oh mah cameo molesting"... i have the original album cover with the lyrics on it :)

  32. r.... ....

    The point Sir Elton was making here is very simple. He could put music to even gibberish lyrics and it would be a Hit. I love Elton, but, this is pure nonsense. Solar Prestige a Gammon. It actually inviolates the effort Bernie Taupin puts forth. You have to put the work in. There are no short cuts.

  33. J.... ....

    Perfect song for John Lennon.

  34. B.... B....

    when I was 14 years old i thought it was a celtic dialet..... ahahahah

  35. T.... ....

    Here is what Elton himself said about this song in an interview from 1990: "We have so many people dissecting our songs in so many ways, thinking that we're anti-religious, anti-Semitic, and all this rubbish! So when we got to Caribou, which was not the best of our albums, we were so fed up with it. I said, 'Bernie, go write any old meaningless rubbish!.' So he wrote 'Solar Prestige A Gammon,' but little did I know, the swine, five fishes were mentioned in it. So we then had all these other religious maniacs coming and saying, 'But there are five fishes...'"

    So it was kind of a sly jab at people (probably critics, mainly) who over-analyzed the lyrics of their songs, searching for Emily Dickinson-like hidden meanings. So Taupin writes a nonsense song basically saying "Have fun with trying to interpret this garbarge." Chicago also fired back at their critics in the 70s with a song called "Critics Choice" on the Chicago VI album.

    T.... ....

    Indeed not their best efforts.
    Though the "Saucers" is one of my fave songs by them.

  36. S.... ....

    This is what an English language song sounds like to somebody who has never learnt English.

  37. K.... ....

    I had this album on eight track. Imagine my surprise then I found it had thirteen.

  38. L.... ....

    Not sure what brought this album back into my memory but I had to take a listen again. All the words come back to me as I listen to the music. Amazing how the human brain works.

  39. K.... K....

    Tis is how you would get the French on board...and yes -like LDQo'H Just said...OMG since the 60's(est. 1963{hot wheels @7})fricken'Grimsby!!!

  40. W.... ....

    ELTON JOHN

  41. J.... R....

    In Elizabeth Rosenthal's biography "His Song: The Musical Journey of Elton John", it is revealed that this song was inspired by "Sun King" from The Beatles Abbey Road album. Elton said: "I thought it would be great to write a song with English words that didn't mean a thing, but that sounded fantastic when put together..." 

  42. I.... S....

    This song just popped into my head, so I look it up. Now I'm listening to it, and remember every useless word of it from my childhood! Brilliant! 

    I.... S....

    ME TOO..REMEMBERED EVERY WORD!!

    I.... S....

    Me Too! I can't believe I remember all the silly words!

  43. h.... ....

    Only just discovering the more obscure music on the Caribou album and I like it. (That awful cover always put me right off, to be honest.) This track sounds very much like something Procol Harum might have knocked out for a laugh circa Grand Hotel. Still good though!

  44. m.... b....

    totally brings back some great memories!

  45. t.... ....

    ALWAYS LOVED THIS TUNE!!!!

  46. k.... ....

    The song's meaning is this: don't molest fish! Lol!

  47. D.... M....

    song made up of non existent words--only bernie taupin could do this and make it work

    D.... M....

    Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll?

    D.... M....

    Ever hear of John Lennon?
    He did the same thing with non sequitur lyrics many times with the Beatles.
    I am the Walrus
    Come Together
    Sun King
    Happiness is a warm gun

  48. H.... 1....

    'My zeta prestige toupay a floored' always makes me smile. Fun track from a great Elton album. I was just listening to this last night! :-)

  49. R.... H....

    This song was very weird to say the least, but there is just something about it that makes you like it

  50. j.... ....

    I was shocked as well by one of his songs. My mom and I bought the "Captain Fantastic" album right when it was released (I was 15). Her brother was visiting at the time, and though not a prude, he was very intellectual. So mom asks him if he liked Elton John, and he said "sure I like him." So on goes the record. It plays through all the songs until it gets to "Someone Saved..." with the passage "it's 4 o'clock in the morning damn it" and I was shocked. "Did they hear that?" I asked myself...LOL.

    j.... ....

    I was at my grandmother's house when this album was hot and I had WLS on the radio in the basement and heard the opening licks to "The Bitch Is Back" and managed to get to the volume and turn it down before she heard it....

  51. j.... ....

    Songwriting excellence! (tongue in cheek) I think I remember Elton mentioning somewhere that Bernie wrote this while perusing the dictionary. Probably the easiest way to write a song, considering Elton could write a tune for something as weird and bizarre as this one. I remember getting this album for my birthday in 1974, seeing this title and trying to make sense of it.

  52. T.... M....

    Elton could put a catchy tune to a cooking recipe. and Bernie could make it rhyme. They were the best duo ever.

  53. f.... ....

    Oh jeeze! I always thought this was Italian or French! I knew a beautiful girl in HS who LOVED Elton John. She did a lip-sync for our HS drama class and sold it.

    One day I hope to see her -- for a moment to tell her that her love was just.

  54. O.... W....

    The chorus of this is now in 'Black Icy Stare' on the album Elton did with Pnau.

  55. J.... D....

    This prooves, yeat again, that Elt really CAN put anything into tune<3 Love him<3 And god bless Bernie!

  56. s.... y....

    when I was in the forces this song baffled me, speaking speaking German, I asked what's the language and was told it,s no language it,s mash of gobble de goog, still love it.

  57. f.... ....

    Totes made up!

  58. R.... L....

    Elton John lives forever!!

  59. d.... ....

    ME TOO!! I love this silly song. It is my FAVORITE Elton song. I never knew if this was a real language or something Bernie made up.

  60. B.... B....

    I agree. For Christmas many years ago, all I received were Elton John albums, I think I had the whole library to date, at the time. My ex wouldn't give my my albums when we divorced. And he doesn't ever listen to the same music as me. Oh well, Youtube fixes many things. lol

  61. s.... ....

    In fact it's a bit fishy. *lol*

  62. T.... B....

    i am a child of the '60s'....i've seen them all...when EJ hit the sceen...it was an epitome....he will always be the best

  63. A.... ....

    Elton lost his willingness to experiment after a while. Forget "Bitch is Back" or "Don't Let The Sun..." this is the standout track on Caribou! At least for me =p

  64. V.... ....

    Besides the awesome wordplay, the song has beautiful French sounding music.

  65. h.... ....

    Elton never really loved the Caribou album, but I think it's one of his best !!!

  66. r.... ....

    Strange, but catchy!!

  67. D.... L....

    solar prestige a gammon! hella ya!

  68. C.... F....

    I hated this song the first time I heard it back in 1974. Hated it with the passion of a thousand burning suns. For the past over 30 years it hasn't existed in my mind. I never included it with the CDs or mp3s I made to play in my car or include on my iPod Touch. Well, somehow I came upon this on YouTube and well, damn, I actually like it now. Elton, I'll never doubt you again!

  69. E.... ....

    @45spindle thats a cool story :)

  70. W.... M....

    herring, molasses abounding! awesome

  71. W.... M....

    herring, molasses abounding!

  72. S.... S....

    guys this a language. its old welsh!!!

  73. R.... W....

    My Wedding Vows

    Oh ma cameo molesting
    Kee pa a poorer for tea
    Solar prestige a gammon
    Lantern or turbert paw kwee
    Solar prestige a gammon
    Kool kar kyrie kay salmon
    Hair ring molassis abounding
    Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin
    Cod ee say oo pay a loto
    My zeta prestige toupay a floored
    Ray indee pako a gammon
    Solar prestige a pako can nord

  74. E.... ....

    If this really isn't in a language it's the ultimate example that Elton doesn't even have to try to sound amazing. Just like that oven song too xD

  75. W.... ....

    Elton said he wished he never made this song

  76. 1.... ....

    Cool, Clever ,Catchy .

  77. s.... ....

    It's a bit of a foodie song. Gamon, herring, molasses, sardine, salmon....they're all there. I love this song.

  78. t.... ....

    Around the middle of doing it, today I realized I was singing this really loudly down my University halls.

  79. J.... ....

    I was a big Elton fan back when I was a kid / teen. I bought this LP back in 1974, brought it home, slapped it on my parents' record player, and cranked it up. When "The Bitch is Back" came on, my mom looked shocked and my dad gave kind of a disapproving "what are these kids listening to now" look.

    Then it got to "Solar Prestige." My dad was cracking up, along with me. That song broke the ice and made the album OK in my parents' eyes (ears). Well, except for that "bitch" song. :)

  80. E.... S....

    this song is hott

  81. r.... ....

    Elton John turned out a little strange, but he is definately one of the great songwrites and performers of all time.

  82. t.... ....

    honestly...this song kicks butt.

  83. t.... ....

    Oooh mah cameo molesting...

  84. W.... ....

    I always loved this song :)

  85. W.... ....

    @45spindle

    Aww that sucks that you never ended up together.

  86. a.... ....

    in an interview he said if he wished he hadn't wrote a song it would be this one

  87. d.... ....

    such a weird little tune :D
    Viva La Solar Prestige A Gammon!!!!

  88. k.... ....

    OK, just sang along with it three times again. Thanks for posting!

  89. 5.... ....

    Complete gibberish yet one of my fav Elton tunes.

  90. o.... ....

    Sry about the comments.. I was having trouble getting them to go through... :p

  91. o.... ....

    I found some very neat info on this song. It was actually inspired by the Beatles "Sun King" on their Abbey Road album. Elton said: "I thought it would be great to write a song with English words that didn't mean a thing, but that sounded fantastic when put together..."
    Go take a listen to "Sun King," have a giggle and then look up the meaning behind Sun King on Wiki. ;) Then you will def understand Solar Prestige A Gammon! Well, sorta.. tee hee

  92. o.... ....

    I absolutely love this song and I think I took it as everyone else, not to put much thought into it. BUT- I happened to come across some very neat info about it!! This song was inspired by "Sun King" from The Beatles Abbey Road album. Elton said: "I thought it would be great to write a song with English words that didn't mean a thing, but that sounded fantastic when put together..."
    Go take a listen to Sun King. Made me giggle. ;)

  93. k.... ....

    My favorite from the album. I LOVED that it had ridiculous lyrics and enjoyed singing along with it back in the day. I like how CRIMSONDYNAMO put it "A musical and lyrical cartoon. Enjoy it and don't read too much into it"

  94. o.... ....

    And that goes with many Elton John songs. Example: Burn Down the Mission. He admits it doesn't make sense. He's also said that people read too much into his songs. Even Daniel doesn't make a lot of sense, but he nixed the most important part of the song for some reason. lol. There are so many more that I can't think of right now, But Solar Prestige A Gammon gets me giggling every time!. This truly shows that Elton can write a song to anything! hah!!

  95. V.... Z....

    Thank You For Posting; This song's lyrics are such fun, they sound as if Bernie Taupin wrote a list of the names of fish for sale in a market in Liverpool.
    Cheers!
    Valkyrie Ziege Mourne

  96. I.... ....

    This song is about fish. Listen carefully, and you can hear the names of several of them: Turbot, Carp, Salmon, Herring, Sardine, Flounder, Cod...He also mentions something about "Molasses Abounding" and his toupee falling on the floor. I'd love to know what the hell was going through Bernie's head when he was jotting down all this gibberish.

  97. T.... J....

    It's sounds like French for me. I was very surprised when I heard this song :)

  98. w.... ....

    Well I like it!!!

  99. G.... ....

    There is a meaning to this song, there must be:-) it can't be just a haphazard string of Spanish-sounding English words, but I just can't understand it; however, the song is very nice in itself.