Song Name: Grantchester Meadows Artist: Pink Floyd Album: Ummagumma (Disc Two) Run Time: 7:26 Year: 1969 Track Number: 5 Sung By: Roger Waters Written By: Roger Waters Info:
* The song features Waters' voice accompanied by an acoustic guitar and the sounds of different types of birds. The lyrics describe a pastoral and dream-like scene at the Grantchester meadows in Cambridgeshire, England. This is where fellow band member David Gilmour grew up. Interestingly, considering the song's idyllic setting, a fly can be heard being swatted and killed at its end.
* "Grantchester Meadows" was incorporated into The Man And The Journey as "Daybreak."
* The song was to be on Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd, and would have been the only song from Ummagumma to be included on that compilation.
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| - Song Name: Grantchester Meadows Artist: Pink Floyd Album: Ummagumma (Disc Two) Run Time: 7:26 Year: 1969 Track Number: 5 Sung By: Roger Waters Written By: Roger Waters Info:
* The song features Waters' voice accompanied by an acoustic guitar and the sounds of different types of birds. The lyrics describe a pastoral and dream-like scene at the Grantchester meadows in Cambridgeshire, England. This is where fellow band member David Gilmour grew up. Interestingly, considering the song's idyllic setting, a fly can be heard being swatted and killed at its end.
* "Grantchester Meadows" was incorporated into The Man And The Journey as "Daybreak."
* The song was to be on Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd, and would have been the only song from Ummagumma to be included on that compilation.
- It was here that Roger Waters and his boyhood friend Syd Barrett came, once upon a time, to bask in the sunshine of a by gone afternoon, half-submerged in shallow water along the riverbank, their bodies smeared with feces and urine (commonly thought to cure acne), and talk about that thing the other Hobbits do with their corncob pipes (but never themselves do it). Syd found in a box of Crackerjack a plastic diamond ring, whereupon Roger's eyes became wide with greed. "I wants it," he said, "It's my birthday." Here our story ends. No one ever saw the ring again. Syd checked into a local clinic complaining of intestinal problems due to ingestion of raw sewage. Roger would go on to metamorphize into a Gollum creature and remained oblivious to his character deformation, seeing his reflection o
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| - It was here that Roger Waters and his boyhood friend Syd Barrett came, once upon a time, to bask in the sunshine of a by gone afternoon, half-submerged in shallow water along the riverbank, their bodies smeared with feces and urine (commonly thought to cure acne), and talk about that thing the other Hobbits do with their corncob pipes (but never themselves do it). Syd found in a box of Crackerjack a plastic diamond ring, whereupon Roger's eyes became wide with greed. "I wants it," he said, "It's my birthday." Here our story ends. No one ever saw the ring again. Syd checked into a local clinic complaining of intestinal problems due to ingestion of raw sewage. Roger would go on to metamorphize into a Gollum creature and remained oblivious to his character deformation, seeing his reflection only in pools inside of dark caves.
- Song Name: Grantchester Meadows Artist: Pink Floyd Album: Ummagumma (Disc Two) Run Time: 7:26 Year: 1969 Track Number: 5 Sung By: Roger Waters Written By: Roger Waters Info:
* The song features Waters' voice accompanied by an acoustic guitar and the sounds of different types of birds. The lyrics describe a pastoral and dream-like scene at the Grantchester meadows in Cambridgeshire, England. This is where fellow band member David Gilmour grew up. Interestingly, considering the song's idyllic setting, a fly can be heard being swatted and killed at its end.
* "Grantchester Meadows" was incorporated into The Man And The Journey as "Daybreak."
* The song was to be on Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd, and would have been the only song from Ummagumma to be included on that compilation.
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