Marriott was dead set against this ever becoming a single - he thought it would colour his band badly and frustrate them in their attempts to be treated as a serious artistic force. It was originally written a slow bluesy song. Marriott wrote it as an album track, a piss-take, as he had had an argument with The Hollies about never singing in his own voice. So he sang this in an exaggerated Cockney voice to prove a point. It was a novelty song but in his view "we were stuck with it". Of course, it became one of the most recognisable songs in the SF's canon. Enjoy.
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