This song is one in a collection of songs from the long-awaited 2015 release of Chet Nichols' CD, "Beetles Are Coming", which includes ALL-NEW HD/HiFi-quality restoration, re-mixing and re-mastered tracks from Chet's ground-breaking first album, "Time Loop".
Please support this independent artist and purchase the music tracks available here to add to your personal music library.
Signed copies of this CD are available upon request.
lyrics
"The Beetles Are Coming"
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Lyrics and Music by Chet Nichols
Copyright 1969/2015 by Chet Nichols (ASCAP)/Magic Garage Music (ASCAP)
chet@chetnichols.net :: http://www.chetnicholsmusic.com
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
You dress yourself up to look like an elf
And you walk around this place
With a sign against the rat race
And you go get wood to cover the fire
Then you reverently place it down upon yourself
So, you'd better get your hoe
And clean up your garden
Because the beetles are coming
The leaves are enough to turn you on
You know this, so you start a collection
There are greens, reds, yellows, golds and candles
But, what will happen to them
Once they've dropped their bomb
So, you'd better get your hoe
And clean up your garden
Because the beetles are coming
So, you go and get a big brown shopping bag
And in it you place your hair your roaches and part of your life
And you drop it from the long shoestring bridge by the ocean
An silently wave goodbye as it sails for Japan
The you turn to look one last look at The City
Then start to thumb to the world that's, oh, so gritty
So, you'd better get your hoe
And clean up your garden
Because the beetles are coming
from Beetles Are Coming,
released January 1, 2023
Lyrics & Music to all songs by Chet Nichols
Instrumentation and vocals by Chet Nichols
Produced & Recorded by Stephen Barncard
Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio in San Francisco, CA
finished at the International House of Cubes in Sebastopol, CA.
houseofcubes.com
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