Pot Pourri
Van Dyke Parks * Track #12 On Song Cycle
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Album Song Cycle
- #1Vine Street
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- #2Palm Desert
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- #3Widow’s Walk
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- #4Up Laurel Canyon
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- #5The All Golden
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- #6Van Dyke Parks
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- #7Public Domain
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- #8Donovan’s Colours
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- #9The Attic
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- #10Down Laurel Canyon
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- #11By The People
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- #12Pot Pourri
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Pot Pourri by Van Dyke Parks
Performed by
Van Dyke ParksProduced by
Lenny WaronkerWrited by
Van Dyke ParksAbout
This quiet coda to Song Cycle sees Parks reminiscing on war, peace, and the history of Japan. The singer watches a Nisei gardener tending peacefully after a purple arbor and struggles to reconcile this moment of serenity with the atrocities committed by Japan in the second world war.
This is not th...
Pot Pourri Lyrics
A Southwester in the yard invested with the garden and camped in concentration of a tall lilac to peel the rust off purple arbor
Time is not the main thought from under the rain wrought from roots that brought us coots to hoot and haul us all back to the prime ordeal
Dust off Pearl Harbor time
Pot Pourri Q&A
Who wrote Pot Pourri's ?
Pot Pourri was written by Van Dyke Parks.
Who produced Pot Pourri's ?
Pot Pourri was produced by Lenny Waronker.