Incense and Peppermints
Strawberry Alarm Clock
(Ed King - John Carter)

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time

  Who cares what games we choose?
  Little to win but nothin' to lose

Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around

  Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, yeah
  Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, yeah, yeah!

To divide this cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothing is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view

  Who cares what games we choose?
  Little to win but nothin' to lose

------ instrumental break ------

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time

  Who cares what games we choose?
  Little to win but nothin' to lose

Incense and peppermints
Incense and peppermints

Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la    [fade]

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- from Andrew's Ace Tabs:

    OK, this has always been credited to John Carter and Tim Gilbert, but
    according to the SAC article in _Goldmine_ #359 John Carter wrote lyrics
    to SAC (and future Lynyrd Skynyrd) guitarist Ed King's instrumental
    track, 'The Happy Whistler'; Tim Gilbert had written other songs with
    John Carter before (most notably the Rainy Daze 'That Acapulco Gold',
    which hit #70 nationwide before program directors found out what
    'Acapulco Gold' was) and was apparently co-credited by mistake.