Cover art for The L.S. Bumble Bee by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
Jan. 27, 19671 viewer

The L.S. Bumble Bee Lyrics

[Intro]
There is a little insect
Not many people see
He's known to all the insect
As the L.S. Bumble Bee

So when you hear him coming
Just throw away your tea
That psychedelic humming will mean you'll soon be free

Oh druggy druggy
Freak out baby, the bee is coming
Oooh

[Verse 1]
I can hear the hum
Of the bubbly L.S. bum bum bumble bee
Now is time to fly
Out of your mind and into the sky with me

[Chorus 1]
I fly through the land where my hand can see
Where my eyes can walk and the mountains spoke with me
I fly through the land where my hand can see
Where my eyes can walk and the mountains spoke
I hear with my knees, run with my nose
Smell with my feet, my heart is a rose
Aaah, aaah

[Bridge]
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum bum, oh
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum bum, oh

Now this week's bum bum bumble is for Al Pherber
And his Marijuana Brass and their hit waxing 'Spanish Bee'
Oooh

[Verse 2]
I can hear the hum, I can hear the hum
Of the bubbly L.S. bum bum bumble bee
Take a little sip, take a little sip
From the tasty lips of the L.S. bumble bee
Aaaaah

[Chorus 2]
I hear with my knees, run with my nose
Smell with my feet, my heart is a rose
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah

[Outro]
L.S. bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bumble bee
Oh that's better

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Cook and Moore perform their faux Beatles diddy, “The L.S. Bumble Bee,” a song described by the 365 Days Project thusly:

The story goes that a few DJs played the record, “The L.S. Bumble Bee,” claiming that it was an unreleased Beatles’ track, or else an advance from their forthcoming, highly anticipated masterpiece “Sgt. Pepper’s.” True or not, the song managed to sneak its way on to several Beatles bootlegs throughout the 1970s, convincing many more that it was an authentic outtake.

In a letter from December of 1981, Moore offered a bit of insight: “Peter Cook and I recorded that song about the time when there was so much fuss about L.S.D., and when everybody thought that “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” was a reference to drugs. The exciting alternative offered to the world was L.S.B.!, and I wrote the music to, in some ways, satirize the Beach Boys rather than the Beatles. But I’m grateful if some small part of the world thinks that it may have been them, rather than us!”

But what really sticks with you is how perfectly this song captures the lollygaggery of the wondrous hippie fantasy machine that was the late 1960s. Its sparse instrumentation, with distant shimmering pianos, screaming babies, and jangly, seagull-like guitar effects set it apart from other psychedelic satires, but it goes further still. Its inviting lyric is more genuinely hallucinogenic than much of what has been labeled “psychedelic” throughout the years.

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January 27, 1967
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