Hippies Call It STP - Holy Modal Rounders, Steve Weber

nce a friendly stranger said to me,

Hippies call it STP

You’re a friendly stranger, I can see,

Take a whiff on me

Have a revelation, the first one’s free

Soon you’ll be addicted to eternity

We’ll be pushers, cosmic style

It’s too late to stop now,

You’re a Nova Cop now

Hippies call it STP

Look at all them hippies do their thing,

Hippies call it STP

Trying to be the next week ripoff king,

Take a whiff on me

Seems he was a flower child just last week

Now he’s got the clap and he’s a needle freak

Good thing love’s all you need

Brand new generation,

Brand new explanation

Hippies call it STP

Meanwhile in a headshop in Provincetown,

Hippies call it STP

A gentle, soulful cat’s putting soldiers down,

Take a whiff on me

Soldiers getting salty, but the cat don’t mind

Getting soldiers salty helps the cat unwind

He’s a narc on a lark

Busy as a beaver

Just a gay deceiver

Hippies call it STP

(refrain, both parts done simultaneously)

Going to the country where everything’s free

Going to the country, and you can’t catch me

I can’t stand that bad city

All I do there is shoot junk

(and)

Gong around, gong around

Keep on kicking that gong arond

Tears me up, brings me down

But I gotta keep kicking that gong around

Be my flower child, little girl, Hippies call it STP

Lemme be your guru for awhile,

Take a whiff on me

'Splain dat to me Kingfish, it ain’t too clear

King it to me, 'splainfish, said the engineer

Now you know why I veer

Yummy yummy yummy

Sucking off a mummy

Hippies call it STP