Tritter wrote:

I'd always liked this song, but had no idea what the hell the lyrics were. So, I found this at about.com:

www.about.com wrote:

So it's another drug song.

masterhead wrote:
uhhhh me toooo and i remember clear as the day when I was a kid....MAN...but what does dig that pearl mean, anyway???!!

I don't care if I ever hear this song again. I didn't like it 20 years ago and I still don't like it...

Angloray wrote:
Well, There is a latin and soul music combination that is extremely appealing to me...I can feel this song all the way down to my belly bottom.. I know it is not an intellectual description

Boogie Nights :)

RParadise wrote:

just so you know, you're not alone.

Gregorama wrote:
I hear dig that girl too..hummm
Who else...?

Gregorama wrote:


OMG! So did I! 8O

And I thought it was "Spill the wine, dig that girl!"

I guess it IS pearl. Just goes to show you-you can learn something every day.

aharamanx wrote:

I coldn't have said it any more eloquently! Right On!

Here you go!
"Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl"

I remember this as a kid, but had no clue what he was saying in the chorus, "Two one! Get that girl!" Actually I'm still not sure what comes afterwards the Spill the Wine bit. Can anyone help me out?

Timeless classic - keep dusting them off, Bill.

Bomberklad. Well put, bubba!

The weakest song on the album - but still pretty fine. "Eric Burdon Declares War" is what really opened my eyes to blues. Especially after I got the sheet music and saw what the harp and sax players were doing in the "hard" blues songs (64th notes!).

I normally can't stand these 'talking over the song' songs, but this one's pretty groovin' (pimp)

You either know how to 'slow burn', or you don't...... (pimp)

Oh, this is just hard on the ears. I have to turn down my speakers every time he launches into the chorus...

SHE'S MINE! ALL MINE, YOU HEAR???? (pimp)

Anton...this one's for you!

Wow, how does one explain the appeal of a tune with such grove about a sexy latin girl in a summer afternoon fantasy? Perhaps you need to get out of your car and 'spill the wine' yourself? :)

Growing up in the white suburbs, this was the first easily accessible song that had a foreign language in it ("Frere Jacques" not withstanding). The Latin flavor, the cool imagery of the grass, the dreaminess, the wine, the chick in the background - this just opened up a HUGE door in the world of music.

The song itself is pretty simple, but what it represented and how it pointed the way - well, that's another story entirely.

This song was always playing at parties....
fun song; trying to remember the parties :D
pbm
8^)

I want to have glorious, endless sex with the chick in this song...

Excuse me while I lay down in a big field of tall grass.........

I LOVE this song...

very cool.

leaping gnomes (pimp)

I was still riding my bike when this came out, but I'll try - Think of the spoken parts as proto-rap, and enjoy the sung parts for the way the singer and the flute inventively play off the rhythm. I also like the peek into the secret inner life of "overfed long haired creeping gnomes."