Nova Slum Goddess
The Lower East Side of New York was an epicenter of hippie culture in the sixties. The Fillmore East concert hall presented the likes of Greatful Dead, Santana, The Allman Brothers Band, Iron Butterfly, and Janis Joplin. Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable featured Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground as the resident house band. At the Astor Place Playhouse one could see The Fugs. Less known now, but a vital part of the scene at the time, The Fugs were beat poet folk rockers, featuring songs with "frank lyrics about sex, drugs, and politics" but usually with with a humorous satirical bent. (See the Fugs wikipedia page).
In celebrating the Fugs in 2007, the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love, I offer the lyrics to Nova Slum Goddess on Greatest Hits by The Fugs.
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NOVA SLUM GODDESS
The Fugs
Sherry ran away, come to live in the slums
Her parents hired detectives, they were posing as bums
Taking acid in a crash pad again
Slum Goddess from the lower East Side
Slum Goddess won't you please be my bride
She organized a commune on Avenue A
She swears the revolution's just a pamphlet away
One Big Union with peacock feather dues
Dope sex revolution pretty paisley hues
Slum Goddess from the lower East Side
Slum Goddess won't you please be my bride
It was the summer of love, 1967
She said, come lie with me and we'll check into heaven
There were 16 mattresses, a candle-wax floor
And posters from the love-in on her day-glow door
All the poets want to be with her, Sherry
Dionysus wants to dance with her, Sherry
All the pacifists want to love her, Sherry
ooo Sherry Sherry Sherry
ooo Sherry Sherry Sherry
Slum Goddess from the lower East Side
Slum Goddess won't you please be my bride
She walks through the park, all the hippie hearts melt
Her skirt's not much wider than a farrison belt
She says history's no mystery
Blast the past
It's the hour of power for Blake's sunflower
Slum Goddess from the lower East Side
Slum Goddess won't you please be my bride
Slum Goddess from the lower East Side
I'm going to make her my bride
