164. The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine

The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine

Always loved this song though didn't have a copy of it forever. 

When punk just got started their were only a few bands around. My band the Fiction being

one. The Babeez were another but they were so far ahead both in music and attitude. I was at a party in Richmond one night when they played this song. Brilliant cover of the song especially Jarryl Wirth's guitar playing. I never realised it had so much power or even such an identifiable riff. There were lots of parties where the punks of 76 and 77 would meet up. I mean there wasn't that many in Melbourne really. The Boys Next Door and The Babeez were the top bands on the scene. The Babeez changed there name to The News and graffitied the town. The whole of Melbourne had News spray painted on bus shelters for years. 

Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies I'll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

Watch the jingle jangle start to chime
Reflections of the music that is mine
When you drop a coin you'll hear it sing
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine

[Instrumental break]

Drop a dime before I walk away
Any song you want I'll gladly play
Money feeds my music machine
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine