So it’s about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene, which were ladies’ vibrators.” ‘They call me Mellow Yellow, I’m the guy who can calm you down.’ John Lennon and I used to look in the back of newspapers and pull out funny things and they’d end up in songs. A-she's just mad about me, They call me mellow yellow, They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly), They call me mellow yellow, Born-a high forever to fly, A-wind-a velocity nil, Born-a high forever to fly, If you want, your cup I will fill, They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly), They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly), They call me. Asked what the song was actually about, Donovan said, “Quite a few things. Most of these interpretations concerned drugs, but there were even rumors that the song was about abortion. According to Donovan’s notes accompanying the album Donovan’s Greatest Hits, the rumor that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumor three weeks before “Mellow Yellow” was released as a single.ĭonovan set out to capture the mellow vibe of the ’60s with this song, adding what he called “cool, groovy phrases.” These phrases were interpreted in ways he never imagined, as people came up with lots of ideas as to what the song meant. They call me Mellow Yellow (What do you mean) They call me Mellow Yellow They call it Mellow Yellow So mellow, you're so Oh, hell, no I gotta tell you, kid I'm not too excited about this They. This was supposed to release the banana’s hallucinogenic qualities, but that aspect of banana skins has since been debunked.
THEY CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW LYRICS SKIN
Back in the 60s, it was believed that dried banana skins could be turned into a hallucinogenic drug by scraping the fibers off of a banana skin and cooking them over a low fire. According to Wikipedia, the song was rumored to be about smoking dried banana skins. It reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. “Mellow Yellow” was written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan.
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