Intro (Bright major-key guitar riff, handclaps, and rising “la-la-la” harmonies) La-la-la-la, lemon sunbeam! Hey! Come on, everybody, feel the dream! Verse 1 Woke up this morning with marmalade eyes The kettle was singing a buttercup surprise Postman whistled a melody sweet Dropped a letter saying “The world’s at your feet” Verse 2 Children are painting the clouds with their bikes Policemen are dancing in polka-dot stripes The baker’s got cupcakes that float in the air And everyone’s laughing without a care Verse 3 I met a girl with kaleidoscope hair She spun me around like a carousel fair We rode on a bus made of strawberry light Through peppermint streets that were glowing so bright Verse 4 The radio’s playing backwards in time Telling us secrets in nursery rhyme Elephants waltzing on top of the hill While bluebirds are paying the telephone bill Verse 5 Now the sky’s doing cartwheels and turning to gold The whole town is swinging, or so I’ve been told Grab your umbrella, it’s raining guitar Come join the party that’s never too far Chorus Lemon sunbeam, shining on me! Boogie-woogie, wild and free! Everybody’s grooving, can’t you see? In the lemon sunbeam, you and me! (You and me! You and me!) Chorus Lemon sunbeam, shining on me! Boogie-woogie, wild and free! Turn the world around, one-two-three! In the lemon sunbeam, you and me! (Yeah yeah yeah! You and me!) Bridge (Slower, dreamier, with backwards guitars and Indian sitar-like flourishes) And when the evening paints the town in violet haze We’ll float above the rooftops in a purple daze No need for money, no need for clocks Just tambourines and ticking tock-tock-tocks… Outro (Full band explosion, fading with layered harmonies and tape loops) Lemon sunbeam… boogie on… La-la-la-la, keep on keeping on… Hey! Lemon sunbeam! (Fade with “sunbeam… sunbeam…” harmonies and joyous laughter)
