Spoken:
I was once out strolling one very hot summer's day,
When I thought I'd lay myself down to rest,
In a big field of tall grass.
I lay there in the sun and felt it caressing my face,
As I fell asleep and dreamed.
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie,
And that I was the star of the movie.
This really blew my mind.
The fact that me, an overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome,
Should be the star of a Hollywood movie. Hmmm.
But there I was. Hmmm.

Sung:
I was taken to a place, the Hall of the Mountain King.
I stood high upon a mountain top, naked to the world.
In front of every kind of girl.
There was long ones, tall ones, short ones,
Brown ones, black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones.
Out of the middle, came a lady.
The lady speaks something in Spanish over the next two lines.
She whispered in my ear, something crazy,
She said,

"Spill the wine and take that pearl,
Spill the wine and take that pearl,
Spill the wine and take that pearl,
Spill the wine and take that pearl."

I thought to myself what could that mean?
Am I going crazy?
The lady speaks something in Spanish throughout this verse.
Or is this just a dream?
Now, wait a minute,
I know I'm lying in a field of grass somewhere,
So it's all in my head,
And then I heard her say, one more time,

"Spill the wine and take that pearl,
Spill the wine and take that pearl,
Spill the wine and take that pearl,
Spill the wine and take that pearl."

I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back.
As she disappeared, but soon she returned.
The lady speaks something in Spanish at certain times during
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this verse.
In her hand was a bottle of wine, in the other, a glass.
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass,
And raised it to her lips,
And just before she drank it, she said.

"Take the wine, take that pearl,
Spill the wine, take that pearl,
Spill the wine, take that pearl,
Amo, amo.
Spill the wine, take that pearl."
Take that pearl.
Yeah, it's all girl.
You gotta do it.
Spill that wine, spill that wine.
Make me feel, make me feel fine, yeah, yeah.
Oh, almost.
Spillthewine, spillthewine, spillthewine,
Fade.
Spillthewine, spillthewine, spillthewine.
Take that pearl. Ahhhh!

SPILL THE WINE
Written by: Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B. B. Dickerson,
Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar & Howard Smith
Performed by: Eric Burdon & War1-1971
Appears on: The Best of War & More-1991, Anthology-1994, The
Best of War & More, Vol. 2-1996, Grooves & Messages, Greatest
Hits of War-1999, The Very Best of War-2003, Greatfully Dead
(1964-1968)-20042

1Covered by: The Isley Brothers-1971, Jimmy Smith-1973,
Lighter Shade of Brown-1990, War (Without Eric Burdon, who left
in 1971)-1991, et al.

2It should be noted that The Animals, under that name, never
recorded, "Spill the Wine." It was recorded by Eric Burdon
& War in 1971 and War without Burdon in the early '90s. Eric
Burdon fronted the Animals until 1968, when he left them and
became the lead singer for War. You'll find the song tacked on
as a bonus track to the Albums, Greatfully Dead (1994-1968),
which is an Animals/Eric Burdon & the Animals compilation-2004
and the album, Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon's Animals/The
Yardbirds/Gerry & the Pacemakers-2007.