| | Monterey Lyrics Artist(Band):The Animals
Eric Burdon & The Animals (Burdon, Weider, Jenkins, McCulloch, Briggs) Album- The Best Of Eric Burdon And The Animals Original release A side December 1967 Polygram Note: Song ref: Monterey Pop Festival June 16-18 1967 For a good Live Performance audio: refer to Rhino 4 Disc CD - Vairous Artists 'The Monterey International Pop Festival' Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com (Anita W. Cantor) The people came and listened Some of them came and played Others gave flowers away Yes they did Down in Monterey Down in Monterey Young gods smiled upon the crowd Their music being born of love Children danced night and day Religion was being born Down in Monterey The Byrds and the Airplane Did fly Oh, Ravi Shankar's Music made me cry The Who exploded Into violent light (yeah) Hugh Masekelas music Was black as night The Grateful Dead Blew everybody's mind Jimi Hendrix, baby Believe me Set the world on fire, yeah! His majesty Prince Jones smiled as he Moved among the crowd Ten thousand electric guitars Were groovin' real loud, yeah If you wanna find the truth in life Don't pass music by And you know I would not lie No, I would not lie No, I would not lie Down in Monterey Hu! huh-huh! Alright! <Instrumental> Three days of understanding Of moving with one another Even the cops grooved with us Do you believe me? Yeah! Down in Monterey Down in Monterey, yeah Down in Monterey Down in Monterey, yeah I think that maybe I'm dreamin'! Monterey! Monterey-yeah! Down in Monterey Did you hear what I said? Down in Monterey That some music Monterey FADES- I said Monterey, Monterey, Monterey Yeah-yeah, hey-hey-hey A-ay, a-ay, a-ay-a-ay ~ If you find some error in Monterey Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Barry for submitting the lyrics. Review about Monterey My world would never be the same | Reviewer: Dave | 6/19/09 Where and how old were you June 1967? I was 18 in L.A. I got a contact experience through this perfect song,stoked when it came on the radio. Wally, it's about the picture not the poetry, the energy not the meter, the breakthrough, not the train wreck. Though I did not attend I made up by visiting the central coast for decades before eventually moving to MONTEREY (and I'm not dreaming). Peace and Understanding | Reviewer: Bill | 11/8/07 Monterey, one of the great freedom rock songs, extols the virtues of a wondrous period of time and the music that was such an integral part of it. If you weren't there, you should work to understand it. Peace. Great Nastalgia | Reviewer: George | 10/21/07 Everyone knows about Woodstock. Relativly few have herd of the Monterey Pop Festival that took place two years earlier, in the summer of love. Yes, 1967. Learn about this event in just 2 minutes! When Eric Burdon wrote this, it was a pretty good song. Today, it sounds dated. Cliche' if you will. But that's the beauty of it. A trip down memory lane for over the hill hippies. Especially those who live on the west coast! Monterey | Reviewer: kerry | 7/8/07 You are right; the lyrics in this song are not the best. But this song is so energetic and fun in capturing the essence of the Monterey Pop Festival where some of the best bands played. Any band and any song played and/or written for this festival is amazing. Possibly The Worst Song Review Ever Written | Reviewer: Tim Henry | 6/1/07 Anyone by the name of 'Wally' should not be allowed to review any song. What parent would humiliate a child with such a name? Wally Cox must have had too many psychedelics in the 1960's since the song does not start off with "in the beginning" Wally never heard of alliterative verse, a metrical pattern involving varied numbers of syllables but a fixed number of strong stresses in each line of a verse. Possibly The Worst Song Ever Recorded | Reviewer: Wally Van Riper | 2/22/07 Everytime "Monterey" comes on the radio my first instinct is to change the station. But, somehow it's like passing a train wreck and not being able to look away. It's so bad I have to listen. The lyrics make me cringe. Whoever wrote this song apparently had never heard of "poetic meter". Can someone explain to me why Eric Burdon whispers "In the beginning......." at the start of the song? It makes no sense. The instruments sound like some non-musicians came into the studio and began playing with them. I'm a fan of The Animals but this song should never have been written or recorded. Monterey! | Reviewer: anya | 1/12/07 I was living in Hawaii at the time this song came out and I remember being so excited by the passion and energy of my favorite singer, eric Burden. The song captures the whole era in a way that none of the flaky psychedelic songs do. Review the song Monterey The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "The Animals" Music | |
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