Unfortunately, it’s their prettiest song. So many really pretty songs in the 60s turn out to have sexist lyrics, the worst being Jack Jones’ “Wives and Lovers,” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
For a nicer song, I think Johnny Rivers’ “Summer Rain” hits all the buttons. It’s set during the Summer of Love, but the woman he loves want to leave for Colorado, which is where lots of hippies fled to for a more bucolic life. And it will be permanent.
She wants to live in the Rockies
She says that’s where we’ll find peace
Settle down, raise up a family
One to call our own, yeah
We will have a home
Can’t get more hippie than this album cover either.
