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Pick Me Up (Hitchhiking Song)

from Earth People Fair by Formidable Vegetable

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about

Written on the side of the road whilst trying to get a ride. Hoping it comes on the radio just as someone is approaching a friendly hitchhiker and it inspires the driver to pick them up!

lyrics

Well, here I am out in the weather
Thumb is out and thanking you in advance

Won’t you pick me up
Please pick me up
Come on pick me up and give me a chance

Whether you’re a hippie in a van
Or a dude in a ute
If you’ve got a spare seat
And we’re on the same route
Won’t you pick me up
Please pick me up
Just pick me up and give me a chance

C’mon, pick me up
c’mon pick me up
I’m not just standing here to sing and dance
Won’t you pick me up
Please pick me up
Just pick me up and give me a chance

Well, I refuse to believe you want to be cruel to me
Maybe it’s just all new to you
But right now it’s 42 degrees so please

Won’t you pick me up,
Just pick me up,
Come on pick me up and give me a chance

I’m not gonna hurt you
I won’t disturb you
Won’t say a word to you if you really don’t want me to
I just want you to pick me up
Please pick me up
Come on pick me up and give me a chance

I said, pick me up, pick me up
I’m not just standing here to sing and dance
Won’t you pick me up, please pick me up
Come on pick me up and give me a chance

Just as I’m about to call defeat
There you are offering me your seat, yeah

And you picked me up, well you picked me up
Just as my mood began to hang in strands
Well, it picked me up, it really picked me up
When you picked me up and gave me a chance

Yeah you picked my up
Thank you for sharing this significantly better circumstance
When you picked me up
You picked me up
You just picked me up and gave me a chance

Well you picked me up
You picked me up
Well, you picked me up and gave me a chance

credits

from Earth People Fair, released March 15, 2019
Written by Charlie Mgee & Formidable Vegetable.
Recorded at Hairy Back Marron Studio, Margaret River WA & Chez Mal, St Kilda VIC. Mixed by James Newhouse at Real2Reel, Bunbury WA. Mastered by William Bowden.

Charlie Mgee: ukulele, vocals
Kylie Morrigan: violin, ocarina
Tim Bennett: bass
Michael Boase: drums
Alex Burkoy: guitar

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Formidable Vegetable Denmark, Australia

Permaculture funk-swing for a changing world.

With a wheelbarrow full of dirty electro radish-beets, crusty jazz ukulele, swingin' strings and hyperactive horns, Formidable Vegetable are here to sow the garden of your mind with seeds of future-resilience in the funkiest way possible.

"So infectious that the most ardent climate sceptic would have trouble staying still"- Sydney Morning Herald.
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