Lemon Pipers, The - Green Tambourine Lyrics

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Stoke up ✌

Is it just me or is the guys tambourine not green?

1:43 “what da fuk man!? Why you hit me wif yo verde tamorine yo?”

I'm glad I happened onto this video: I thought for sure, that this was a "Beatles" song! I've never heard of the "Lemon pipers".

Great song, love to go back to the 60s and be a teenager again

I think it was there Only hit. It was a HUGE Hit. I was in JR High then this and Insence & pepperment were very popular

You must not listen to The Beatles very often

@Nick Foles Super Bowl 52 MVP There are a lot of bands, that sound so much alike, that it's very easy for me to confuse which band is doing a song.

Rest in peace.. Bob Nave

Great song, transport me back to the 60s

Fun fact:
The composer of this also composed the song na na na na na na na na e e e goodbye

Yes, Paul Leka co-wrote "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" for the band Steam.

I also went in 71 to nam as a helio pilot with the 101st AA. I got the chance to visit the area were so many of Americas finest died needlessly in that festering hellhole. I stand in awe of there sacrifice every waking hour of my life.

Thanks for serving. I joined the Marine Corps right after you. Helped a little with the Evacuation of Saigon April 1975, total chaos. We lost 2 Embassy Marines in a firefight at Tan Son Nhut AFB.

God bless you for your sacrifice. You made it back but I know a part of you stayed. My father was there and there it stays. I know little of his time there and I can't blame him for that. May God bless you all.

Another war started by a lie.

The lead singer went on to later enjoy a movie career with such diverse roles as Momma from Throw Momma From the Train and Momma Fratelli from The Goonies.

@Casey Smith Wow. Hilarious. 🙄

Hahaha. Good pull. “Owen DOESN’T HAVE ANY FRIENDS....”

They got Sam Kinison to sing on this?

If you claim to remember 1968, you weren't even there.

Scott Ouellette I am so sorry Scott 💕

@bobberguy1 Thankyou for your service bobberguy...WELCOME HOME SOLDIER.

@JayE Gee Thanks J.G.

Was there a 1968?

I was 12 years old in 1968 and I remember it like the back of my hand.

Some LSD must have been going around that made people see lots of green. I know 3 bands right off my head that sung about green.

Victor Serkiavic Lmmfao yeoooooo 😭😂😭😭😂😂💯💯💯💯

Victor Serkiavic
Give me more names with green before my trip is goner

@Dor Ben Baruch The Green Manlishi, pink floyd has a song named green and unrelated to the era The liquid color company

Quite possibly the worst song ever. Especially the tambourine part.

That was the most offensive comment ever especially the part with the tambourine

@Dor Ben Baruch everyone is entitled to their opinion. I however like the song. Especially the tambourine solo at the end.

It's not the absolute worse. But it is one that you'd have to pay me to listen to it more than once.

TAMBOURINE SOLO!!!!!!!!!

Love to go back to the 60s.

Go hug a tree

RIP Bob

◔◔..thank you◦༄◦°˚°◦.¸¸彡彡

1:34 The guitar player is a cross between a young Bill Gates and Joey Ramone.

So basically like a young John Denver lol

Reminds me of guitarist in 'Black Betty' song too...

The lead singer looks light in the loafers

I've always heard homosexuals can easily spot another. Is that true Michael?

@Joseph Jakubec look who's talking cupcake

Dudes! You're embarrassing yourselves.

It wouldn't matter to me whether the lead singer was gay or not.

Great times but totally delusional.

Yeah, this whole society.

The band actully hated that song! Their management wanted them to be poppy, causing issues with the band...

Thank You for this interesting music fact. I will put this in my notebook.

i can see why.

CLICK BAIT FROM THE 60'S...I waited all video for a green tambourine!

Gotta love all of the One Hit Wonders of that era.

The was a lot of the one hit wonders in the 60s

A very young John Denver

Was my favorite song when i was 5

William Duckworth same here.

With its cool base line and tech, I wouldn't consider this tune bubblegum. If this was released 18 months or so prior, it would have fit in with some of the songs other bands were putting out (e.g. Beatles, Who). And that's kinda the problem - by Nov. '67 this sound was already passe and, perhaps by that time, considered bubblegum. The music was changing rapidly during this period and Green Tambourine was late to the party.

Same, I came here from the "Bubblegum" wiki page because I couldn't remember this tune having the vibe that it describes.. a pleasant enough song, but it's not nearly as super-upbeat as "Sunshine Day", etc xD

Haven't seen this in years.

The singer is definitely using autotune.

It was lipsyncing?Then..Auto tune came wayy...later...anyway great song.

Lol. There was no such thing as autotune in the 60's. What you hear is the studio recording and what you see is lip syncing.

The errors in the video are many as well as being off sync with the music. That said it’s still great.

Hey I was 13 too. Great record I knew something was happening to music around this time- but of course I didn't realise it was , shall we say , substance related and influenced. I recently listened to the 2 albums this band made and some of the tracks are still excellent. Happy days.

That mishap at 1:43 looked unplanned and unappreciated.

Looks like the tambourine man did it on purpose.

No electricity.

Rest In Peace, Bob Nave

r fernandes great guy. Met him last summer.

What happened to these guys?

blue aba dee abba die came out (also The Beatles too)

Keyboardist Bob Nave just passed away today. Bill lives just outside of Oxford Ohio... singer Ivan lives in LA

Bill also went on to sing and play for Ram Jam, best know for their hit "Black Betty".

Ryan Moore he actually recorded Black Betty with his band Starstruck. When he joined Ram Jam they basically just edited the song. The other guys in Ram Jam didn’t play on the record

@Rodney Owens Good to know, thanks for the correction.

CLASSIC!!

Groovy man!

A lot of Nice songs in the 60

Is this guy high

High as fuck!

And loving it man LSD was legal when this was done

I love the remake from the "Recess" cartoon...

Yep, it was Robert Goulet singing.

THE SINGER SMACKS THE GUY IN THE HEAD WITH THE TAMBOURNE. LOL

THANKYOU FOR THE LIKES. COULD NOT MISS THAT ONE. LOL

If you remember this song, then you are lucky because you grew up in a great era of life and music.

I was 12 years old when this came out. It was so simple that it stuck in yer brain, i was too young and dumb to try to make sense of the lyrics.

Of course the times were simpler also. I didn't have a care in the world other than being in 7th grade. Still watching cartoons but the females of our skool was taking up more of my thoughts.

I'd noticed them for quite a while but now they were developing these curious bumps on them that required more investigation. So i became sherlock holmes and began a full time inquiry into what they were, looked like, and most of all just what did they feel like. I'm 63 now and my quest continues.

As they say, "the difference between men and boys is the size and price of the toys". Damn if they ain't expensive, but that's the price of knowledge. If you've seen one ya gotta see them all.

i wish I had a dollar for every Les Paul guitar sold. i'd be richer than Bilbo Gates

Somehow I dont think over 100 BILLION of them have been sold.

Who is Bilbo Gates???
Bilbo left for The Undying Lands along with Frodo.

@Doc MacLaren's Tinkering that was my other question but I figured I'd give someone else a turn lol

have you ever heard lemon pipers song rice is nice

How about The Shoemaker Of Leatherware Square, Shoeshine Boy, Blueberry Blue. They didn't like the Green tambourine and Rice is Nice and Jelly Jungle stuff, they preferred rock. Well, I'm glad their record company forced them to make "bubblegum". they were great at it.

More co wbells ...

Needs more tambourine

Loved this song.

piss off,
George Harrison needed more sitar. Janis Joplin needed more kozmic blues.
LOL.

Lead singer would have been better served if he had just put a sock in his pants.

He may have, with a small tater in there for balance.

Hard to tell from the grainy video, but I had a pair of pants exactly like them in the late 60's-early 70's. They had a thin red stripe between the dark and light gray stripes. Good old bellbottoms!

wonderful to find this one!

DROP THE MIC TIME LYRICS r off the Charts 4-SURE,🎤

These country hillside wight boys were lit the fuck up. High as Jefferson Airplane. Dayum! Nice bass line too. The wight boys jammin but can't move or jam with their own jammin music. Good Got Dam wight people.

This was #1 on the charts during your lifetime. Is this your first time hearing it?

Kinte-Rashayah @7LAMPSofFIRE why you gotta make it a race thing??

did not need drugs back then.amen.

lmao What the fuck?

sure beats any of the crap that's out there today.

Groovy baby!😎😎

Right! Thanks,Vintage

Synthesizer before they were synthesizers

"We aaaaall prisoners, chickybaby. We aaalll locked in."

The guitar player is the man who discovered the Eddie's Van Halen technique!

@Fausto Martinez You mean Eddie Van Halen discovered guitar player Bill Bartlett's technique. (as Van Halen was only 13 at the time, lol.)

check out black betty by ram jam the guitarist will look familiar

@Richard same gene pool

@Richard that's a damn fine song itself. Most of the covers I've heard of have been.

Check out a high-quality recording of this song the bass line is so clever is off the hook

So anyone else here because of Recess: School’s Out?

Fargo season 1 for me

I've never saw that Recess movie. Was Green Tambourine featured on it?

Melissa Cooper it was played in the ending credits

Melissa Cooper it was played in the end credits

lip sync it baby, to bubblegum music you didn't like but that paved the way for you.

1:43 Ha!

caljn 1 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Guitar player Bill Bartlett became later world famous with the mega hit "Black Betty " by the group Ram Jam as guitar player and singer.

Back when people were free to dress how they wanted without judgment just love and peaceful vibes. Great trippy song tho

Added to my 60's Psych/Garage Playlist:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNINWcxxj9hFitjPlihu9ZXfLEM6_KAdo

Wow, I had hair like that way back when. And dressed in big bells and puffed sleeved shirts. Thought I was REALLY cool! Yes I did. Now, I realize I looked like a Coke bottle...

My older sister was a teenager in the 1980s and she wore her hair the way most of them wore it back then: big and frizzy. When she reached her forties she looked at her old high school picture and thought "What was I thinking?!"

This song always mesmerized me as a 7yr old kid back in the 60's....

Nice💯 I wasn't even born til 74 lol

UB40 cover up

Flares didn't suit everyone...killer song though...

Recess School's Out!

one of the coolest songs ever recorded

These people are so stoned.

I'm envious

jeff buesing for college students

Is that a problem?

@ARJE MANN doesn't appear to be. Did I say it was?

💭💭💭✌💭💭

My green submarine

Recess anyone??

That tambourine is not green. Fake news!

Thanks for the laugh.

Marijuana?

The Lemon Pipers were another 'One Hit Wonder', with "Green Tambourine'. After several subsequent releases failed to become hits, they were dropped by their label, Buddah Records.

Still glad to see it here, had forgotten it.

@Cpt. Ahab_it In the 1970s it appeared on several novelty song LP collections. I first heard it on a 1975 LP called 'Fun Rock'. Another 1970s 'Greatest Hits' compilation LP had a Lemon Pipers song called 'Rice Is Nice', but that hit(?) is pretty much forgotten.

@ADAM ANTMAN I was 12 when that video was made, i remember lots of good music i never got the names of. I loved rock since seeing the beatles on ed sullivan

@Cpt. Ahab_it All four appearances of The Beatles on Sullivan are available on DVD. The episodes are complete, including original commercials. I have them all and they're great.

Their song " Rainbow tree " is also good

Ace Frehley on the Les Paul.

I was noticing that myself....chicken or egg situation....need a bong hit!

He went on to sing with a band called Ram Jam. You may have heard of em'.

Now listen while I play...my green battleship.

The wages of sin is death ....just so you know

John Bundy al capone

This is pure acid

Bubble Gum music. Great. Takes me back to my childhood.

Light up and listen to this song. you will see his green tambourine.

O yeah Def drug's

Question: was the sitar or electric sitar used when this was recorded...does anybody know?

@William... According to the song's Wiki page, an electric sitar was used.

Yep. It’s an electric sitar. I just bought one and this is the first song I learned. Then Paint it Black.

@surfcollector Norweigen Wood was my first...

Shame they never did anything else.

@Adam 'Rice is Nice' & 'Jelly Jungle' were very minor hits.

Just so you know, Bill Bartlett (the guitarist) went on to be in a band called Ram Jam with one quite notable song called 'Black Betty'.

You need to listen to their Green Tambourine LP. The rest of it has some really great tracks... nothing like this bubblegum.'Were through' is a mind tripper ! of psych proportions.

The guitar player has a kind of Ace without makeup look.

Damn this music is so terrible. There is a playlist on Spotify that I used to love which I had to unfollow only because of this song. Now I came here for the dislike, done.

You unfollowed for one song?😂😂 bruh wtf

Gave this comment a dislike, am I doing it right?

@Optimalillusion You are, but for some stupid reason, YouTube doesn't show the 'thumbs down.' I've asked them Why have it then? Makes no sense. 🙄

60s70sVintageRock .... I’ve heard they add it to your likes, so dislike all you want f*ckers

Idiot with absolutely no musical taste whatsoever.

How many groups in today's music have a tambourine man? 0 🦄😎🦄👍

Clarence Erickson - Greta Van Fleet does! Josh Kiszka!

Mostly bands from the Middle East

Brian Jonestown Massacre

@alleygh0st exactly

I think I like the version from Recess. Robert Goulet’s baritone gives the melody more depth.

I've always treated eerie Halloween sounds a lot like as if they were music to my ears.

Big song in high school then. Trippy!

Tamborine isn't green. Love this song though.

I always liked this song, good to hear it after all these years!

Damn dirty hippies!

Wonder how they got inspired to make this song. Cool melody, interesting chord progressions, like something you might have heard in a dream...

Drugs hahaha jk idk

@Francisco Rp I was gonna say the same thing. I'm sure LSD, Shrooms or peyote were involved.

Someone told me that the lyrics were written by a woman.

@E Price You're right and Google is your friend! https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-lemon-pipers/green-tambourine

Been ages since I heard this

A gold bar from the amazing goldmine of the 60s

I love that song what do you play my green tambourine oh yeah now that’s for music with music.

The Guitar player, Bill Bartlett, went on to be in Ram Jam and made the song "Black Betty" famous.

WOW I keep finding songs that got me into Rock and Roll.