[00:00.39]"Stoned Soul Picnic" was a song from 1968.
[00:00.73]The most known version of the song was recorded by The 5th Dimension,
[00:01.08]and was the first single released from their album of the same title.
[00:01.34]It was the most successful single from that album,
[00:01.64]reaching #3 on the U.S. Pop chart and #2 on the Billboard R&B chart.
[00:01.90]The song was also recorded by its composer,
[00:02.23]Laura Nyro,
[00:02.54]and released on her Eli and the Thirteenth Confession album in the same year.
[00:02.81]The word surry,
[00:03.14]used frequently in the lyric
[00:03.40](e.g. "Surry down to a stoned soul picnic"),
[00:03.73]is a neologism by Nyro; its meaning is unclear.
[00:04.03]The verb surry is spelled differently from the noun surrey
[00:04.35](an old-time carriage).
[00:04.59]When asked by producer Charlie Calello what the word meant,
[00:04.81]Nyro told him, "Oh, it's just a nice word."
[00:05.08]The British pop group
[00:05.36]Swing Out Sister
[00:05.64]recorded a cover version on their 1997 album,
[00:05.90]"Shapes and Patterns".
[00:06.22]It was covered by Julie London on her 1969 album
[00:06.48]"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy";
[00:06.72]and by the New York Voices on their 2007 album
[00:06.98]"A Day Like This".
[00:07.23]It also appeared on the 2004 album
[00:07.48]"Don't Talk",
[00:07.75]recorded by British jazz singer Claire Teal.
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[00:41.60]Red, yellow, honey, sassafrass and moonshine
[00:49.35]Stoned soul
[00:51.73](Stoned soul)
[00:57.60]C'mon, c'mon and
[00:58.81]Surrey down to a stoned soul picnic
[01:03.87]Surrey down to a stoned soul picnic
[01:09.04]Rain and sun come in again
[01:14.25]And from the sky come the Lord and the lightning
[01:19.30]And from the sky come the Lord and the lightning
[01:27.05]Stoned soul
[01:30.19](Oh stoned soul)
[01:33.97]Surry on, soul
[01:37.98]Surry, surry, surry, surry
[01:49.48]There'll be trains of blossom
[01:51.98](There'll be trains of blossom)
[01:54.56]There'll be trains of music
[01:57.35](There'll be music)
[01:59.39]There'll be trains of trust, trains of golden dust
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[02:12.88]Can
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[02:17.90]Surry down to a stoned soul picnic
[02:23.00]Surry down to a stoned soul picnic
[02:28.11]There'll be lots of time and wine
[02:33.21]Red, yellow, honey, sassafrass and moonshine
[02:38.64]Red, yellow, honey, sassafrass and moonshine
[02:43.52](Moonshine)
[02:45.64]Stoned soul, yeah
[02:52.98]Surry on, soul
[02:57.04]Surry, surry, surry, surry
[03:07.17]Surry, surry, surry, surry