I Can Hear the Grass Grow

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"I Can Hear the Grass Grow"
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Single by The Move
Released 1967
Format 7"
Recorded 1967
Genre Psychedelic rock, Pop music
Label Regal Zonophone
Writer(s) Roy Wood
Chart positions
  • UK #5
The Move singles chronology
"Night of Fear"
(1967)
'I Can Hear the Grass Grow'
(1967)
"Flowers in the Rain"
(1967)


'I Can Hear the Grass Grow ' is the second single by The Move.

It is a psychedelic rock song referring to the senses blurring effects of hallucinogenics. Among the musical references are Chesney Allen's vocal underlines during the middle 8.

The song has been covered by The Fall, Jellyfish and by Status Quo on the album Don't Stop.

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