Since radio in this town sucks, I spend a lot of time flipping around the stations. I had it on the oldies station today while we waited in line at the car wash when Judy in Disguise came on. Except Chris and I didn’t hear Judy in Disguise. We heard something else and even though we know this song both of us have always thought they were singing “Judy in the skies”.
Instead of just bopping along with the bubble-gum tune, we actually listened to the lyrics. Those are wacked out lyrics. What the Hell does “Cantaloupe eyes come to me tonight” mean?
What’s even worse is that I googled Judy in the Sky with Glasses all this time thinking that was the title.
Okay, wow. I knew the song title was Judy in Disguise, but I’ve never bothered to listen to the lyrics before. I’m not even sure I’ve ever actually listened past “Judy in disguise, yeah that’s what you are.” Those dudes must have been into some serious hallucinogenic drugs.
I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s some deep, veiled imagery about government or something going on.
Nah. They must’ve been on drugs.
You know, now that I think about it, I remember doing the exact same thing with the opening theme of the cartoon The Transformers which contained this line: The Transformers, Robots in disguise.
Robots in the skies? I mean, it did show them all flying, so it could have been, right?
Oh, wow. I just learned, right now, that it ISN’T Judy in the Sky with Glasses.
I was reading an obit for the guy who recorded this song. It said the song was a parody of the Beatle’s song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” That makes more sense to me than saying they were on drugs. In fact, it was the Beatles who were on drugs with LSD (Lucy/Sky/Diamonds).