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Vegetable Man

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Syd Barrett Canonical path: /syd-barrett/vegetable-man Related lyric paths: 6
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Vegetable Man

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In yellow shoes

I get the blues,

So I walk the street with my plastic feet

with blue velvet trousers make me feel pink.

Theres a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers

In my paisley shirt,

I look a jerk,

and my turquoise wasitcoat is quite outta sight.

But oh, oh, my haircut looks so bad....

Vegetable man! Where are you?

So I change my gear,

and I bugger my knees

and I cover them up with the latest cuts

My pants and socks are all in a box

It does take long to find darn old socks

The watch,

black watch,

my watch

with a black face

and a date in a little hole

and all the luck,

its what I got,

Its what I wear,

Its what you see,

It must be me,

Its what I am!

Vegetable man! Where are you?

Ah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah

Hah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah - oh!

I've been looking all over the place

for a place for me

But it ain't anywhere

It just ain't anywhere.

Vegetable man, Vegetable man,

Vegetable man. Vegetable man,

Vegetable man, Vegetable man,

He's the kind of fella you just gotta see if you can,

Vegetable man.

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