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Haight Ashbury Song Book
by Ashleigh Brilliant, 1967

[image: Ashleigh Brilliant Haight Ashbury Song Book cover. Used with permission. Copyright, Ashleigh Brilliant. All rights reserved.]

Haight Ashbury Song Book by Ashleigh Brilliant, 1967. "Songs of love and haight." Used with permission. Copyright, Ashleigh Brilliant.

From Haight Ashbury Song Book

"Haight-Ashbury The Beautiful"
(tune: "America the Beautiful")


O beautiful for hairy beard,
For psychedelic smiles,
For lava-lamps and costumes weird
And run-away juveniles.

Haight-Ashbury, Haight-Ashbury,
America unbound!
Within thy good old neighborhood:
The rising underground.

O beautiful for hippie feet
That walk without mishap
Through tourist trash on every street
And piles of canine crap.

Haight-Ashbury, Haight-Ashbury,
Your own conclusion draw--
Collapse entire or die by fire,
But never go bourgeois!

Ashleigh Brilliant, Artist and writer, creator of pot-shots cartoons, famous for their 17-word limit. Since 1967, Brilliant epigrams have influenced us all.
Also see: Ashleigh Brilliant Pot Shot Post Card




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