Spill The Wine   
Composer(s): Thomas Allen - Howard Scott - Harold Brown - Morris Dewayne Dickerson
Lee Oskar Levitin - Charles Miller - Leroy L. Jordan
First release by: Eric Burdon & War - 1970
Covered by multiple other artists



Spill the wine, dig that girl
Spill the wine, dig that girl

I was once out strolling, one very hot summer's day 
when I thought I'd lay myself down to rest (Excuse me) in a big field with tall grass 
I laid there in the sun, felt it caress my face as I fell asleep and dreamed 
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie (Places, everyone), and that I was the star (Three minutes, Mr. Polo) 
This really blew my mind 
the fact that me, an overfed, long-haired, weeping gnome should be the star of a Hollywood movie 
There I was 
I was taken to a place, the Hall of the Mountain King 
I stood high upon a mountaintop, naked with the world in front of every kind of girl 
There were strong ones, tall ones, short ones, brown ones, black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones 
Out of the middle came a lady 
She whispered in my ear, something crazy 
She said

Spill the wine, dig that girl
Spill the wine
Spill the wine, dig that girl
Dig that girl
Spill the wine, dig that girl
Spill the wine
Spill the wine, dig that girl

I could feel the hot flame of fire roaring in my back as she disappeared 
But soon, she returned 
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, she said

Take the wine, take that girl
Spill the wine, dig that girl 
Spill the wine, dig that girl 
Spill the wine, dig that girl