![]() Search for: Follow This, That, and the Other on WordPress. Written for this weeks Thursday Photo Prompt from Sue Vincent.Īnd, in case you were wondering, here’s Donvan’s song. So its about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene - which were ladies vibrators. John Lennon and I used to look in the back of newspapers and pull out funny things and theyd end up in songs. “Pass me that joint, brother,” Ronald said. They call me Mellow Yellow, Im the guy who can calm you down. They were just appearing on the scene at that time.” “Well,” said Donald, “I heard that the ‘electrical banana’ in the song is about women’s battery-operated vibrators. “Well I heard that the song is about being cool and laid-back.” “I don’t know, but I heard that mellow yellow refers to a rumor back in the sixties that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins,” Donald said. “Who is Saffron, anyway?” Ronald asked Donald. “I’m just mad about Saffron, Saffron’s mad about me. I’m just mad about Saffron, she’s just mad about me. They call me mellow yellow (quite rightly). They call me mellow yellow (quite rightly).”īy the time they finished singing those words, Ronald and Donald were doubled over with laughter. ![]() The young men then started singing together. ![]() ![]() As the brothers walked down the path, yellow tipped flowers growing in abundance on both sides and nearly as far as the eye could see, Ronald suddenly started humming the old Donovan song, “Mellow Yellow.”ĭonald got a broad smile on his face and uttered the words, “quite rightly.” Both of them cracked up. ![]()
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