[00:00.39]"Stoned Soul Picnic" was a song from 1968.

[00:00.73]The most known version of the song was recorded by The 5th Dimension,

[00:01.08]and was the first single released from their album of the same title.

[00:01.34]It was the most successful single from that album,

[00:01.64]reaching #3 on the U.S. Pop chart and #2 on the Billboard R&B chart.

[00:01.90]The song was also recorded by its composer,

[00:02.23]Laura Nyro,

[00:02.54]and released on her Eli and the Thirteenth Confession album in the same year.

[00:02.81]The word surry,

[00:03.14]used frequently in the lyric

[00:03.40](e.g. "Surry down to a stoned soul picnic"),

[00:03.73]is a neologism by Nyro; its meaning is unclear.

[00:04.03]The verb surry is spelled differently from the noun surrey

[00:04.35](an old-time carriage).

[00:04.59]When asked by producer Charlie Calello what the word meant,

[00:04.81]Nyro told him, "Oh, it's just a nice word."

[00:05.08]The British pop group

[00:05.36]Swing Out Sister

[00:05.64]recorded a cover version on their 1997 album,

[00:05.90]"Shapes and Patterns".

[00:06.22]It was covered by Julie London on her 1969 album

[00:06.48]"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy";

[00:06.72]and by the New York Voices on their 2007 album

[00:06.98]"A Day Like This".

[00:07.23]It also appeared on the 2004 album

[00:07.48]"Don't Talk",

[00:07.75]recorded by British jazz singer Claire Teal.

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[00:41.60]Red, yellow, honey, sassafrass and moonshine

[00:49.35]Stoned soul

[00:51.73](Stoned soul)

[00:57.60]C'mon, c'mon and

[00:58.81]Surrey down to a stoned soul picnic

[01:03.87]Surrey down to a stoned soul picnic

[01:09.04]Rain and sun come in again

[01:14.25]And from the sky come the Lord and the lightning

[01:19.30]And from the sky come the Lord and the lightning

[01:27.05]Stoned soul

[01:30.19](Oh stoned soul)

[01:33.97]Surry on, soul

[01:37.98]Surry, surry, surry, surry

[01:49.48]There'll be trains of blossom

[01:51.98](There'll be trains of blossom)

[01:54.56]There'll be trains of music

[01:57.35](There'll be music)

[01:59.39]There'll be trains of trust, trains of golden dust

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[02:17.90]Surry down to a stoned soul picnic

[02:23.00]Surry down to a stoned soul picnic

[02:28.11]There'll be lots of time and wine

[02:33.21]Red, yellow, honey, sassafrass and moonshine

[02:38.64]Red, yellow, honey, sassafrass and moonshine

[02:43.52](Moonshine)

[02:45.64]Stoned soul, yeah

[02:52.98]Surry on, soul

[02:57.04]Surry, surry, surry, surry

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