Octopus Garden!

Dmitry and Cindy gave Dash her very first Beatles' album "Abbey Road" for Christmas last year, and Dash has been so plugged into the album since then : ) Thanks Dmitry and Cindy! :D

Dash's current favourite song for the month of Nov is "Octopus' Garden"! : ) It has such a cheery light tune especially the music at the start of the song. And one can also hear the bubbling at certain junctures of the song in-between the singing! Ahhhh! The amount of thought the Beatles put into this song :D

Everytime Dash imagines the (somehow and somewhat always slightly purplish-pink) octopus and its garden (of well-textured seashells and sleek wavy green seaweed and kombu), Dash feels uplifted! ^_^ And in Dash's imagination, the tentacles of the octopus would always surreptitiously float towards a pebble or two, and flip them over to see if there are any nice seashells for its garden collection ^_^

Octopus' Garden
by The Beatles

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus' garden in the shade

I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus' garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade.

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus' garden near a cave

We would sing and dance around
because we know we can't be found
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade

We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves
(Lies beneath the ocean waves)
Oh what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe
(Happy and they're safe)

We would be so happy you and me
No one there to tell us what to do
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden with you

(And here in a swiss town wall, Dash found is a rather annoyed octopus trying to look menacing in a poster : ) A nice contrast to his delightfully zen-ish fellow octopus in the Beatles' song : )