| As I was walkin' down | |
| Rubadub Square | |
| Not a chill to the wind but a nip to the air | |
| From another direction she was caught in my eye | |
| It could be an illusion but | |
| I might as well try, might as well try | |
| She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes | |
| And I knew without asking she was into the blues | |
| She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls | |
| I knew right away she was not like other girls, like other girls | |
| Well I ain't never been right as | |
| I ain't never been wrong | |
| As heaven works out the way it does in this song(Hey) | |
| Because once in a while you get shown in the light | |
| In the strangest of places if you look at it right | |
| It was the summer of love and | |
| I thank the stars above | |
| Because the woman took a lovin' over me | |
| And just to gain her trust | |
| I bought a microbes | |
| Because I sold off all my personal property | |
| A tight tye-dye dress she was a psychedelic mess | |
| We toured to the north, south, east, and west | |
| We sold some mushroom tea, we sold some ecstasy | |
| We sold nitrous, opium acid, heroin, and | |
| PCPAnd now | |
| I hear the police comin' after me | |
| Yes now I hear the police comin' after me | |
| The one scarlet with the flowers in her hair | |
| She's got the police comin' after me | |
| But there ain't nothin' wrong with the way she moves | |
| All scarlet begonias and a touch of the blues | |
| And there ain't nothin' wrong with the love that's in her eye | |
| I had to learn the hard way just to let her pass by, let it pass by | |
| Oh just let her pass by |