Story Behind The Song

(Melissa Attebury, vocal; Mark Mitchell, piano).?Most Americans are familiar with the character of Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith show.  You're either old enough, like me, to have watched the original series or young enough to have seen it on YouTube. The song is inspired by an episode called 'Aunt Bee's Medicine Man'.

Lyrics

I feel like I'm feelin' my age.
I'm losing my rosy complexion.
I'm hoping it's just a phase.
I need an infusion of something quite new.

There's a gentleman passing through town
And I think that he's selling what I'm pining for.

Colonel Harvey's magical elixir
Will make you feel brighter,
Fix your day and make your step lighter.
Make you feel joyous and jolly.
Colonel Harvey's philosopher stone
Will cheer up your morning, afternoon and night.
It's always the right time
For Colonel Harvey's magical drink!

Winters here are grey and humid,
Summers very hot.
The lakes are filled with eels and snakes
And slime that time forgot.

The screech of the cicada
Makes it impossible to think.
But I'm perky as a fairy.
Happy in Mayberry
With the help of a wonderful drink.

Colonel Harvey's magical elixir
Will make you feel brighter,
Fix your day and make your step lighter.
Make you feel joyous and jolly.
Colonel Harvey's philosopher stone
Will cheer up your morning, afternoon and night.
It's always the right time
For Colonel Harvey's magical...intoxicatingly beautiful drink.

Neighbors here can be quite nosy
Peering through the curtain.
They watch you come and watch you go
So they can be quite certain

That you obey the rules
And regulations that they make up.
I used to find them scary
But now thanks to Colonel Harvey
I just take a sip and then I (hiccup).

Colonel Harvey's magical elixir
Will make you feel brighter,
Fix your day and make your step lighter.
Make you feel joyous and jolly.
Colonel Harvey's philosopher stone
Will cheer up your morning, afternoon and night.
It's always the right time

The sun shines bright in Mayberry.
Nobody locks their doors in Mayberry.
The fishin's a delight,
The men are men,
The kid's do their chores in Mayberry.

Everybody smiles in Mayberry
Except for the occasional grouch.
They dance down the aisles
In the grocery store
And there's just a few kids who slouch.

Mayberry starts being great in the morning
As the Colonel and I parley.
It gets really fab by the afternoon
As we get droll and witty and gay.

With Colonel Harvey's magical, wondrous, amazing, miraculous, stupendous bundle of joys!

The heck with Mayberry!
I'm gonna go home and watch the Real Mcoys!