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68 Playmate

from Battle of Flowers by Buttercup

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from Buttercup's "Battle of Flowers" album on Bedlamb/Palo Santo Records

lyrics

i went shopping at the salvation army store
looking for some hip duds maybe I could make that retro grade
buy a pair of bellbottom pants and a polyester shirt
it was yellow tag day but nothing would fit
and i still look like i shop at the gap

just when i was walking out of the store
with nothing in my hand
a pretty, pretty picture did catch my eye
a glossy magazine was taking me back
i was going back
i was going way back to 1968
and for two dollars i had me a date

my 68 playmate

she had big blonde hair with beehive flair
red stockings in the bowling alley
she’s my succubus on a yellow love bus
in the flower generation
i wanna hold her i wanna feel her
false eyelashes against my face
but alas at the time i was only negative three
i would do anything i would do anything

i’d wear white pants white shoes
pinstripes turtlenecks
double-breasted polyester
british wool-twill all semester
i’d drink high class top shelf whiskey in a glass
like peter sellers at the party

my 68 playmate

so where oh where is my little twiggy?
where oh where where could she be?
is she a hula hooping down to a psychedelic beat?
if i get my math right
i add it up i count it down
one! two! three! and four! you’re back it seventy-two
you add a score and some more and she’s sixty four

my 68 my 68 playmate

i want retro i wanna erode
i wanna go i wanna go back

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from Battle of Flowers, released April 14, 2017

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