Happiness Runs in a Circular Motion

[qua...@ix.netcom.com]

As I remember that old Donovan song, that was the lyrics. I think it was
just repeated over and over again.

Bass wrote:

> Well, after a vacation of about a year from living room tours (my living
> room, that is), I started singing again the last few nights. I was
> singing to my daughter an old song, I think I had picked up at a camp in
> the early seventies. For some reason I associate it with Donovan. These
> are the only lyrics I know or remember:
>
> Happiness runs in a circular motion
> Love is like a little boat upon the sea
> Everybody is a part of everything anyway
> You can be anything if you let yourself be
>
> Happiness Runs, Happiness Runs
> Happiness Runs, Happiness Runs
>
> Does anybody remember any other verses or for that matter the origin of
> the song?
>
> All you campers out there, please help a middle aged folkie.....
>
> Nostalgically,
>
> Gary Bass
>
> > > Work like you don't need money,
> > > Love like you've never been hurt,
> > > And dance like no one's watching

[Bass]

[Jean Katherine Rossner]

Your powers of association are fine (unless mine are totally gone!);
it *is* a song by Donovan. I don't know much of his stuff, but this
one also appeared on the Mary Hopkin album "Post Card" (anybody know
whether this one ever became a CD?)--the one with the big hit of
"Those Were the Days".

As I recall, it started out something like this,
"Little pebble upon the sand
You are lying here in my hand
How many years have you been here?
Little human upon the sand
I am lying here in your hand [that line may be entirely off]
You to me are but a passing [?breeze??]."

and then repeated several times the chorus you gave. Hopkin, at
least, added a verse of "la la la"s.

Katherine

[Tom King]

To Jean Katherine Rossner:

From RISE UP SINGING

Little pebble upon the sand

Now you're lying here in my hand

How many years have you been here?
Little human upon the sand

From where I'm lying here in your hand
You to me are but a passing breeze.
The sun will always shine where you stand
Depending in which land
You may find yourself
Now you have my blessing, go your way.

(round)
1. La la la (4x) La la la (3x) la

2. Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is but a little boat upon the sea

Everybody is a part of everything anyway

You can have everything if you let yourself be

3. Happiness runs, happiness runs (4x)

4. Why-o?, Because! (4x)

5. Da-dum, dee-dum, da-dum-dee (2x)

6. Happiness runs in a circular motion

Love is like a little boat upon the sea

All our souls are deeper than you can see
You can have everything if you let yourself be.

The song is credited to Donovan Leitch. The last verse is one my wife and I
remember as a variant of the first verse. It's really fun when you get 4 or
5 people singing it all at once on different verses.

Jean Katherine Rossner wrote in message
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[Andy Alexis]

Tom King wrote in message <78jtuc$sgj$1...@remarQ.com>...

>To Jean Katherine Rossner:
>
>From RISE UP SINGING

>2. Happiness runs in a circular motion
> Thought is but a little boat upon the sea
> Everybody is a part of everything anyway
> You can have everything if you let yourself be
>

Am I crazy, but I seem to remember one of the vocal variations Donovan does
on this chorus at the end of the song is "Happy Rest Rooms, Happy Rest
Rooms".

[Ken_...@hotmail.com]

> >Does anybody remember any other verses or for that matter the origin of
> >the song?

It is on Donovan's "In Concert" album with the title "Pebble and the Man", and
on Mary Hopkin's "Postcard" album with the title "Happiness Runs". I have not
checked out Donovan's "A Gift from a Flower to a Garden" set, but I expect it
might be there too.
>

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[Joe Montgomery]

I always heard "you can have happiness if you let yourself be"

Andy Alexis <ndlxs...@calweb.com> wrote in article
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[JesiAna]

"Andy Alexis" <ndlxs...@calweb.com> wrote:

<<Am I crazy, but I seem to remember one of the vocal variations Donovan does
on this chorus at the end of the song is "Happy Rest Rooms, Happy Rest
Rooms".>>

Nope, you're not crazy...I believe he performed it with those lines on a
segment of "The Smothers Brothers," with a female singer, pretty well-known,
whose name escapes me at the moment...and when I think of it I am going to feel
pretty foolish. (As a colleague of mine says, a senior moment).

Jesiana

"If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."

[Andy Alexis]

JesiAna wrote in message <19990127011636...@ng144.aol.com>...

>"Andy Alexis" <ndlxs...@calweb.com> wrote:
>
><<Am I crazy, but I seem to remember one of the vocal variations Donovan
does
>on this chorus at the end of the song is "Happy Rest Rooms, Happy Rest
>Rooms".>>
>
>Nope, you're not crazy...I believe he performed it with those lines on a
>segment of "The Smothers Brothers," with a female singer, pretty
well-known,
>whose name escapes me at the moment...and when I think of it I am going to
feel
>pretty foolish. (As a colleague of mine says, a senior moment).
>

Hey! That's it! We used to watch the Smothers Brothers religiously. We even
went to see the taping of one of the shows; the one with Liberace, David
Frye and Hedge and Donna (obligatory folk reference).