Monterey Track #12 4:15. Eric Burdon & The Animals. (Burdon Weider Jenkins McCulloch Briggs). Album- The Best Of Eric Burdon And The Animals. Original release A side December 1967 Polygram. Note: Song ref: Monterey Pop Festival June 16-18 1967. For a good Live Performance audio: refer to Rhino 4 Disc CD - Vairous Artists. 'The Monterey International Pop Festival'. Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com (Anita W. Cantor). . The people came and listened. Some of them came and played. Others gave flowers away. Yes they did yeah!. Down in Monterey. Down in Monterey. Young gods smiled upon the crowd. Their music being born of love. Children danced night and day. Religion was being born. Down in Monterey. The Byrds and the Airplane. Did fly. Oh Ravi Shankar's. Music made me cry. The Who exploded. Into fired light (yeah). Hugh Masekelas music. Was black as night. The Grateful Dead. Blew everybody's mind. Jimi Hendrix baby. Believe me. Set the world on fire yeah!. His majesty. Brian Jones smiled as he. Moved among the crowd. Ten thousand electric guitars. Were groovin' real loud yeah. If you wanna find the truth in life. Don't pass music by. And you know. I would not lie. No I would not lie. No I would not lie. Down in Monterey. Hu! huh-huh!. Alright!. <Instrumental>. Three days of understanding. Of moving with one another. Even the cops grooved with us. Do you believe me?. Yeah!. Down in Monterey. Down in Monterey yeah. Down in Monterey. Down in Monterey yeah. I think that maybe I'm dreamin'!. Monterey!. Monterey-yeah!. Down in Monterey. Did you hear what I said?. Down in Monterey. That some music. Monterey. FADES-. I said. Monterey Monterey Monterey. Yeah-yeah hey-hey-hey. A-ay a-ay a-ay-a-ay. ~.