Lyrics?
Anyone have any idea of the lyrics to the theme song by Harper's Bizarre? I would really like to have them, I have tried to make them out but maybe I need a few of Alice's brownies before attempting to interpret them!!
I can't find any lyrics to it either -- I'm guessing you've tried too. I don't have a copy of the movie on hand, but what I can remember, the chorus of the oft-played theme is:
"ILYABT!
And so does Gertrude Stein [sometimes "Harold Fine"]
ILYABT!
I'm going to change your name to mine."
I also recall, in the verse, "sweet cannabis sativa, sweet sativa", "sentimental nutmeg" (itself also a psychoactive, but recommended by practically no one who's tried it), and a mention of coriander. It seems to be a list of the ingredients in the inedible-sounding hashish fudge recipe reprinted in The ABT Cookbook (submitted not by Alice but a male painter friend of hers, himself a friend of William Burroughs). The back story on that:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a940225.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/14/1026185139209.html
The original recipe is here:
http://www.trunkrecords.com/kitchen/recipies/release1/hasch_fudge.jpg
(Note that the cookbook was originally published by Harper's -- hence H. Bizarre, or just coincidence?)
If you want a copy of the song you can find it in Harpers Bizarre: Extended 4. I also heard that a band called Blades of Grass did a cover of it back in the day.
Jane-Lane's post was pretty hip.
I think the 'Blades Of Grass' did a groovier job on this one than HB.
More info here:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-blades-of-grass-i-love-you -alice-b-toklas/