Donovan - Summer Day Reflection Song

From album "Fairytale".Live performance on The Big TNT Show.
PLEASE NOTE: Found and edited by psychedelic yogi.

[@MemphisBlueAgain]

Few says this so I'm gonna say it: Donovan is a genius. You can see it on his early acoustics, on Sunshine superman and on his double "A gift from a flower to a garden"

[@holyspacemonkey]

Yes indeed!

[@kevanbrown7620]

His album Fairytale, which this track came from is full of classic tracks. It should be reissued,as you can't get it now. It's hard to get even Sunshine Superman. All the record shops have is Donovan compilation's. I want to buy Fairytale on cd it's a classic.

[@fin3590]

@@kevanbrown7620 thing it’s sold on his website

[@mikemarinacci7161]

3,000 Beat-group loving American teenyboppers witness the birth of Psychedelia. One of his best songs!

[@A_Pa-Plainjane]

He was extraordinary, and wrote so many great tunes.

[@Airhockeylirare]

Enchanting song, but what else can one expect from guid ol' DOnovan

[@EllieBates96]

Can't stop listening to this

From his early "Fairytale" album. Pure poetry.

[@JohnSmith-cy8hq]

"freak feelings of guilt" what a great lyric.

[@SansRedGoddess]

Donovan - Summer Day Reflection Song Lyrics: Cat's a-sleeping in the sun Eyes take heed the colours call Sunlight patterns touch the wall Red kerchiefs sail and fall Cat's a sleeping in the sun Dragon kite in the sky Wheel and turns, spin and fly Attacked by rooks and never fail To cry the sound of fairy tales The cat is walkin' in the sun All the pebbles I have seen Precious stones for Colleen Every minute I pass through With the grooves spent with you The cat is yawning in the sun Jewelled castles I have built With freak feelings of guilt And the words stab to the hilt Pick the flower and it will wilt Cat's a-shifting in the sun Marionette dangles death Insensitivity is fed By the TV wizard's wand Once in the spell you're conned Cat's a-smiling in the sun Cat's a-smiling in the sun Eyes take heed the colours call Sunlight patterns touch the wall Red kerchiefs sail and fall Cat's a-smiling in to me

[@paulprivateer6073]

Marionette dangles dead (not death)

[@mickigoe]

Don't try and tell me that music wasn't better back then .

[@TheCacrouch]

It's a wonderful song,but there's great modern folk artists around too eg. Weyes Blood,Joanna Newsom,Fleet Foxes,Sufjan Stevens.Great art isn't exclusive to a single era.

[@holyspacemonkey]

Check out Johnny Flynn!

[@karenlee9028]

Loved this song then and now.

[@Kaitipoo]

This transports me elsewhere and brings back a lot of memories.

[@rivlax]

Though he does not use the technique on this song, Donovan was one of the best flat pickers there ever was. His flat pick work on the "Catch the Wind" album and on several songs on "Fairytale" is as good as it gets.

[@emilloffler1216]

A classic song I remember, from a classic album of great note.

[@sz3rd]

thank you, looked for thos for a long time its one of the most beautiful song's that blend music an words, thank you again..

[@kevanbrown7620]

Great track 👍 I don't think you can get it now, but his album Fairytale was a truly underrated classic album. This track is on it, and the full album is all great songs. It should be reissued.

[@IVIIIVV]

I had heard this as a kid and thought it was on "Sunshine", but it wasn't. Took me years to find it and so glad I did.

[@Voitground]

thats as simply as great- a "blaupause" for all songwriters after his appereance. easy chords , a unique style- true expressionism.and my cat is smiling in the sun also.

[@whittingham4665]

one of my favs on fairytale along with maybe oh deed i do and er the rest of the album

[@brownpatfred]

so good you will listen again and again ,i never tire of listening saw him live in the 60s

[@carlosantuckwell]

Very advanced for 1965. I reckon that (and his "Jersey Thursday" - recorded at the same time) was the start of psychedelia (along with The Beatles' "If I Needed Someone" - also late 1965).

[@Pogo-qo1ob]

I believe Sunny Goodge Street was 1965 as well

[@hippiegypsygirl]

I love all three of those songs you mentioned

[@19HurdyGurdyMan46]

A lovely Bert Jansch song played beautifully by Donovan.This album is so wonderful.If you don't know that much about Donovan start with his early stuff it'll blow you away.

[@truthismyfriend4196]

A lovely Donovan song lyrics written by Donovan.

[@19HurdyGurdyMan46]

@@truthismyfriend4196 Quite true, couldn't of been concentrating at the time, or had too much Bert on my mind. Thanks for the correction.

[@Dansull123]

WOW that chick at 1:25 is really starting to feel it

[@robotechian23rd]

hes so amazing wicked style ive been listening to his song and most of them have a little orchestral break perfect for sampling

[@palexandersquires]

This Is One Lovely Song, my cat likes it as well! she is listening in the sun.

[@Dansull123]

OMG Cherry Sunburst Gibson J-45, that guitar was so handsome....

[@alexcunliffe1167]

Just Fabulous...that's all! ...Thanks Garry.

[@camgalloway691]

Used to play Donovan a great deal in cruising cars and portable speakers when I was fifteen. Haven't fully listened to this track in roughly a year or so. Came back to it after watching Jake Bugg perform a cover. Never gave too much thought to the lyrics but always imagined brightly vignetted summer days, much like the ones I used to spend in early high school. Anyone care to share their interpretation of the lyrics on this one?

[@jorgejuarez8928]

Cam Galloway I actually discovered this song through Jake Bugg, my new favorite, and I think of a summer where I hung out with a cat often which enjoyed being outside until dawn :)

[@thierrylebrun2140]

C'est lui qui m'a donné envie de jouer de la guitare !!

[@nicholas70paul]

1965... years ahead..

[@mlandsman1]

I heard this in the sixties while high on LSD. I have not heard it again until today

[@GarryLoc]

Thanks Karen

[@Dansull123]

VERY awesome video

[@tbooks2483]

These beautiful women just fucking VIBING..

[@elizabethwiley2984]

Long ago, played this song, and sang with sister in the park in San Francisco while there for a Human Be In in support of no draft and no more war...........good memory.

[@jimrock63]

i like the lyrics.

[@chreynest]

I believe Donovan here dreamed of the future day he'd be singing his hit songs to large audiences like this that all knew them, instead of this where nobody's familiar at all. But unfortunately he did get exactly what as he dreamed

[@DolbroDan]

that's a great upload thanks!! hear the screams of them? Do you mind if i leave a link to my Donovan cover...? ok :)

[@marijatomic5703]

Love this song, croatia

[@Raymantico]

on day like today Don's crystal visions

[@whittingham4665]

@lotus21 whats bert got to do with summers day reflection song ( pure donovan ) the only song on this album by jansch was oh deed i do!

[@pavelponec5285]

Donovan seal with the kiss

[@neutrolino]

Sounds like an enchanted sunny day with the cat smiling and why does the red kerchief sail and fall? Is it a cat toy?

[@hippiegypsygirl]

Good question

[@quietthunder]

Very true!

[@19HurdyGurdyMan46]

@whittingham4665 Quite right my friend, I'm not sure myself how I slipped up here, unless it was something to do with not being computer literate and being new to KZbin. I've had the albumn for over forty years so yes I definately am aware Donovan wrote this song along with most of the other songs on this fantastic albumn, which I can't recommend more highly.

[@whittingham4665]

@19HurdyGurdyMan46 its you sir that does not know much about don -donovan wrote this song! the only song on fairytale that jansch wrote is oh deed i do!

[@vizualnoize]

this sends tingles thrume body...mmm

[@HeseQ]

@rivlax Do you happe to know what pickin' technique he's usin here?? I just can't figure it out....

[@HeseQ]

@si james Haha Thanks!! Had completely forgotten about this tune

[@sydneymoody8654]

i love donovan

[@Amano266]

so short, so good, so.... don know

[@whittingham4665]

you dont have to apologise you obviously love dons music thats all that matters !

[@pavelponec5285]

Donovan summer

[@maevemcmahon4286]

Originally dubbed "the British Dylan", Donovan was actually so very much more. his finger picking style was all his own, and he actually taught The Beatles how to finger pick. His songs were heart felt, although I confess to not really liking the vibrato in his voice.

[@victorchen856]

Can anyone tell me what the song is about?

[@jerryjohnson28]

Victor it's just about tripping thru the day man kinda stoned you know😎

[@GarryLoc]

@grabbitphonya You're welcome ;)

[@Raymantico]

so bonny a laddie

[@BS1965able]

@gibsonvolume Aint she just

[@tashwhimpey8114]

0:24

[@supersondessixties]

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[@psychonautpsychosis]

Sigh... :)

[@epiphaniesjuxtapozed]

That girl looks a lot like Judy Collins.

[@redcrowdemon]

Seems, even a maharishi-worshipping, Dylan copyist can have a moment of pure magical genius. Wonderful!

[@lenp00]

Hardly a Dylan copyist.

[@bloodletter3400]

Nigel Longhurst Wrong Donovan even in his 64 65 phase still was close to Dylan but not on the verge of copying him

[@monkey2352]

I don't know what that girl has taken but I'll pass thanks.

[@sydneymoody8654]

its called true love!