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Mingus, mellow, fantastic?

17 Oct 00 - 07:15 AM (#320692)
Subject: Mingus, mellow, fantastic?
From: The Shambles

Can some kind soul put me out of my misery and tell me what song these lines come from?


17 Oct 00 - 07:24 AM (#320694)
Subject: RE: Mingus, mellow, fantastic?
From: Margaret V

Sunny Goodge Street; believe Donovan wrote it, Judy Collins sang it. Margaret


17 Oct 00 - 11:08 AM (#320855)
Subject: RE: Mingus, mellow, fantastic?
From: LR Mole

The only other line I remember is " A violent hash eater shook a chocolate machine." Being around fifteen years old and in New England I remember being puzzled as to whether the chocolate machine was made out of chocolate or dispensed them. I sorta knew the term "hash eater" wasn't about breakfast, though .Goodge Street??


17 Oct 00 - 11:21 AM (#320866)
Subject: RE: Mingus, mellow, fantastic?
From: JTT

Sunny Goudge Street by Donovan. About the Goudge Street underground station in London. Why it should be sunny, now that's another question.


17 Oct 00 - 01:41 PM (#320962)
Subject: RE: Mingus, mellow, fantastic?
From: The Shambles

"My my they sigh"......

That's it. Thank you all.


17 Oct 00 - 04:00 PM (#321095)
Subject: RE: Mingus, mellow, fantastic?
From: Margaret V

Yeah; I remember my startled sense of deja vu when I finally went to London and found myself in the Goodge Street tube station getting a Cadbury bar from out of the little vending machine. When I learned the song I certainly had no idea Goodge Street was a real place, or that there might be a chocolate machine underground; it just seemed like an interesting surreal fantasy of a song. Margaret