The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes R&B, Soul, and Jazz, best-known during the late 1960s and 1970s for popularizing hits of songwriters like Jimmy Webb, Laura Nyro, Burt Bacharach, Ashford & Simpson, and others, and helping to popularize "flower power" music with both white and black middle-class Americans.
They are best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up
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...STONED SOUL PICNIC... by The 5th Dimension ------------------------.....................
*from 'Stoned Soul Picnic' (1968)*
*CAPO 2nd FRET*
(Original Key: E)
Intro:
Dmaj9Gmaj7/A (x4)
Bridge 1:
Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Can you sur -ry, can you picnic? Woah. Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Can you sur -ry, can you picnic? Come on, come on and...
Verse 1:
Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Surry down, to a stoned soul picnic, Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Surry down, to a stoned soul picnic.
Chorus 1:
Gmaj7F#m7Em7G/A There'll be lots of time and wine.
Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Red yellow honey, sassafras and moonshine, Dmaj9Gmaj7/AGmaj7F#m7Em7G/A Red yellow honey, sassafras and moonshine, (moon-shine).
Break:
Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Stoned soul, stoned soul. Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Woah... Come on, come on and...
Verse 2:
Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Surry down, to a stoned soul picnic, Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Surry down, to a stoned soul picnic.
Chorus 2:
Gmaj7F#m7Em7G/A Rain and sun come in a-kin.
Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A And from the sky, come the Lord and the lightning, Dmaj9Gmaj7/AGmaj7F#m7Em7G/A And from the sky, come the Lord and the light-ning.
Gmaj7D/F#Em7Em7/A Surry on soul. D7G/AD7G/A Sur-ry, sur-ry. D7G/AD7G/AD7G/A Sur-ry, sur-ry.
Middle 8:
Dmaj7G/ADmaj7G/A There'll be trains of blossoms, (there'll be trains of blossoms), Dmaj7G/A (There'll be trains of blossoms), Dmaj7G/ADmaj7G/A There'll be trains of music, (there'll be mu -sic).
Dm7Am7 There'll be trains of trust, trains of golden dust, Come along and surry on. Emaj7Dmaj7Emaj7 Sweet trains, Amaj7Am7Gmaj7 Of thought, surry on down. F#m7Em7Gmaj7F#m7Em7Em7/A Can you surry, can you sur.........ry?
Verse 3:
Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Surry down, to a stoned soul picnic, Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Surry down, to a stoned soul picnic.
Chorus 3:
Gmaj7F#m7Em7G/A There'll be lots of time and wine.
Dmaj9Gmaj7/ADmaj9Gmaj7/A Red yellow honey, sassafras and moonshine, Dmaj9Gmaj7/AGmaj7F#m7Em7G/A Red yellow honey, sassafras and moonshine, (moon-shine).
Break:
Dmaj9Gmaj7/A, Dmaj9Gmaj7/A Stoned soul... Dmaj7Gmaj7/AGmaj7F#m7Em7G/A Yeah, surry on soul.