Sherlock Holmes

Lyrics

Sherlock Holmes is on the case The soiled glove on your hand gave him a clue Give it to me And act as if nothing had happened

Fat, fat, why tell me that? What in the world Can I do?

Flowers growing in the garden Footprints on the path show him a way Give it to me And take this bag of spare ribs

Fat, fat, why tell me that? What in the world Can I do?

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Chronology

• God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
  • Mayo Thompson - vocals, guitar, piano?
  • Steve Cunningham - bass
  • Tommy Smith - drums
  • ? - additional vocals

Retrospectives

Mayo Thompson, 2023

[Steve] Cunningham and I were both Sherlock Holmes fans. We read all of the stories. You know, I had a book this thick that was my mother's book. I lost it and paid for it, in various ways. But we read all that stuff and we loved, we loved Sherlock Holmes. [...]

We didn't work everything out. We had some ideas and we would start playing. A lot of that record [...] was made up on the fly. And that particular tune is maybe the third take of our second or third try at something.

Interpretations

• Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes

Cover versions

	Artist
1982	Manos Hadjidakis	Part 1, Part 2
2023	Tyson Brinacombe	YouTube

Various artists compilations

• 2000: Sounds Psychedelic (Germany)
• 2004: Psychedelic Chemistry (Germany)