“Talkin’ Keep Austin Weird” tells about the time back in 1969 when I hitchhiked 2,000 miles to Austin, Texas from San Francisco. I was on a mission to bring a new era of love, peace, and happiness to our troubled planet. Once I arrived the most amazing turn of events brought me to a profound realization of the highest truth and how that truth can unlimitedly benefit and transform our entire planetary civilization.

Talkin’ Keep Austin Weird (written in Vrindavan, India-April 2015)

LYRICS

Yep. (pause) (Laugh) Back in 60’s guitar in hand
Hitchin’ to Texas from Hippie Land, San Francisco Haight Ashbury, You dig?
Thumbin and a strummin’ 2,000 miles
serenadin’ my drivers makin’ ’em smile. (Laugh) Flyin’ translove airways all the way to good old Austin

Yeah, Things in Austin pretty bleak
They’s tearin’ down the trees on Waller Creek
Regent Erwin’s plan such a disgrace
Chop down the oaks to make more space. For what? a football stadium?
Yeah. Who needs those beautiful old oak trees anyway?
They’s just blockin’ progress. Woo!

So the hippies decide better do somethin’
Get down there and block the cuttin’
Climb the trees. Cops pull us down
Erwin applauds when every oak comes a crashin’ Keece Boom to the ground. Yippee!
Calls us a bunch of Dirty Nothings. Woo!

Yeah, its not cool to be weird in Austin
Regent Erwin says you’re dirty nothin’
But don’t be afraid wherever you go.
Those rednecks can’t kill your bullet proof soul
And you know they’ve got a big billboard down there in downtown Austin. It says,
“Beautify America, give a hippy a haircut.” Woo!

Cuttin’ down trees’ no solution.
Gotta have a love-Peace revolution.
Hate filled world needs a cure-all.
So I head out every day to the University of Texas South Mall, ya’ll
Singing and a strummin’, blowin’ on my blues harp. (harmonica riff) There it is. (harmonica riff) There it is agin.
Serenading the world at the George Washington statue

Now with no permit the university’s gonna kick me away.
But they decide hey he’s not amplified, aaah what the heck let him stay.
Daily Texan paper calls me the minstrel.
Crowds come every day smiling and blissful.
Campus sensation sending you to the higher destination, Woo Hoo!

Yeah, the world’s such a mess I just can’t stand it.
Lookin’ for THE message to save the planet.
Prayin’ for the answer, the truth is revealed.
So now to the world I make my appeal.
I become a devotee, you know, one of those mystic bhakti yogis, to push forward this mission: global bhakti transition
World will be saved. Yeah!

You know something? I mean, do you really want to know something? What I’m trying to say is that I really want to tell you something. What I’m saying is this: Every decent song has a moral and uh uh uh “uh oh”…Oh Yeah!… this bein’ a decent song. you see, it must also have a moral. That makes sense. Doesn’t it. Well, (long drawn out well) here it is…. Are you ready? Are you really ready? Are you really, really ready? Okay, let’s go!

So if you want to be valid and not a goofball
You’ve got to serve the Supreme, and the ultimate welfare of all
Even the animals and plants (Remember those beautiful old Waller Creek oaks.)
And don’t mind it a bit if you get jeered because in Austin, Texas, USA, Planet Earth my friends, you are super cool if you are weird
So whata you say? Let’s keep Austin weird and turn on the whole planet to higher consciousness.
This is Sankarshan Das signin’ out from www.Turnontheworld.com. I thank ya’ll for tunin’ in. Yeah!