He wrote them down on a napkin and gave them to me . As it happens, I had in my mind at that moment an idea inspired by a favorite song of mine by the Lovin' Spoonful called "Summer in the City," so I asked him to show me the words. When he heard that I was a musician, he told me he had written a poem that he thought would make good lyrics for a song. In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton recalls:
Lyrically, it's a relatively factual and colorful rendering of the great Greek tragedy Ulysses". Cash Box called it a "visionary hard rock excursion." AllMusic's Matthew Greenwald calls it, "One of a few overtly psychedelic songs to have aged gracefully .
The song was the B-side for " Strange Brew" in June 1967, several months ahead of the group's second album, Disraeli Gears, which included both songs. Two weeks later, he turned up with it on the B-side of a 45 record." Sharp had written the lyrics to the melody of Leonard Cohen's song " Suzanne", specifically the Judy Collins version. He, in turn, told me he'd written some music. "I just started chatting to Eric", said Sharp, who lived in the same building. Clapton composed the music, inspired by the Lovin' Spoonful's 1966 hit " Summer in the City". The song was the first collaboration between guitarist Eric Clapton and artist Martin Sharp.
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