Story Behind The Song

After making many jaunts into Humboldt County in the early nineties I wrote this soing because all pro-weed tunes to that point were by people who just smoked and I wanted to create a song that the most down-low growers and their peeps would appreciate. The song took off in 93 and was played on KMUD in Humboldt often and I rerecorded this version in 2003

Song Description

A super underground shout out to all the weed growers in Northern Cal by someone who knows the underbelly and innerworkings of the scene in a way no outsider can.

Lyrics

Friends From Up North (Strickler)

They call me crazy Eddy ?cuz I hang out on the fringes
The door into my mind is swingin? open on it?s hinges
I?m always on the DL ?cuz I?m so damn maney
Lay your hands on my stash, I?ll kick you in the crani-
Um, I?m hot like Uranium but don?t touch my pot plant
?Cuz yo, it?s a geranium! OK,
I?ll level with you because you?re down with the Goo
It?s my favorite strain, Northern Lights 5 and G2
In a month it will be ready, and then there will be plenty,
So hang out and find out why they call me Fatty Eddy
I can tweak on a fat riff or twist up a fat spliff
But bamboo won?t do, I need the cabaret width
You?re ready to get down with the sickness from Sonoma,
The mean green O-do that?ll put you in a coma
If you look for somethin? that?s a little bit more potent
I got friends around the way who have already grown it!

I got friends from up north and around the way
Tryin? to make the heads right in Cali-for-ni-a! (x2)

I?d love to mention names but my friends are kinda noidin?
CAMP?s flyin? over and they?re tryin? to avoid ?em
I wanna give ?em props for the fruits of their labors
But I don?t want the word to get to any of their neighbors
It?s a small world in northern cal in the summer?
& when you get to your patch and it?s gone that?s a bummer
it?s better than getting? there and findin? straight 5-oh
hangin? in the bushes and waitin? for the grass to grow
or some punk to pick it up and put it in a pickup truck
and trim the bud and dry the stuff and go down south and live it up
It?s that time of year for friends and good cheer
So twist up a fat one and pass it over here
?Tis the season for the KGB
It?s harvest time in Northern Cal and it?s Green!!!

I got friends from up north and around the way
Tryin? to make the heads right in the USA (x4)

So shouts out to Humboldt and Mendocino
Point Arena, Shasta, Eugene and Chico
Redway, Trinity, Stinson, Yosemite
Bolinas Ridge, Sunday afternoon, 420!
Up in Laytonville and out in Grass Valley
They?re stuffin? glass chillums all over Cali
With the kind, the dank and the straight up faunch
The wild green wonder with the one-hit punch
All my homies puff together, we?ree an herbal tribe
People all around the world gotta catch the vibe
So peace to all the puffers from back in the day
Who got Friends from up north and around the way

I got friends from up north and around the way
Tryin to make the heads right in the world today! (x4