Peace Frog

"Peace Frog"
Song by The Doors
Album	Morrison Hotel
Released	February 1970
Recorded	November 1969
Genre	Hard Rock
Length	2:49
Label	Elektra
Writer	Jim Morrison Robby Krieger Ray Manzarek John Densmore
Producer	Paul A. Rothchild
Morrison Hotel track listing
"You Make Me Real" (3) "Peace Frog" (4) "Blue Sunday" (5)

"Peace Frog" is a 1970 song by The Doors which appears on the album Morrison Hotel. It was released on vinyl in February 1970 by Elektra/Asylum Records and produced by Paul Rothchild. The song blends seamlessly into the next track on the album, "Blue Sunday", so radio stations often play the two songs consecutively.

"Peace Frog" was originally called "Abortion Stories"; guitarist Robby Krieger gave the song its more tame title, "Peace Frog." The bloody images (There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles/There's blood on the streets, it's up to my knee, etc.) originated, like many songs of The Doors, from the poetry of Jim Morrison, including "Not to Touch the Earth" on the album Waiting for the Sun and "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)" on L.A. Woman.

The line "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind" originates from his poem, "Ghost Song," that describes an event that occurred when he was young. As Morrison described it in An American Prayer:

The opening scene of Oliver Stone's movie The Doors portrays this memory of Morrison's.

The phrase "Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven" was Morrison's reference to the police in the town of New Haven, Connecticut.^{[citation needed]} He had been arrested there while on stage for taunting them. Since the concert was abruptly ended after Morrison's abrupt departure, a riot ensued that spilled from the (now defunct) New Haven Arena into the streets.

In other media

• It is on the soundtrack of the 1992 movie Reservoir Dogs.
• The song is in the 1998 movie The Waterboy
• The song was used in Busey and the Beach, an episode of the HBO television series Entourage, originally aired on August 22, 2004.
• It is on the soundtrack of the 2005 video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
• The song also recently appeared on the television show My Name Is Earl in episode 14 entitled "Monkeys In Space" where, in a montage, Earl (Jason Lee) is trying to buy some donuts from a Dinky Donuts but finds his old ex-girlfriend with one leg (whom he stole a car from) works there.
• The song is covered by Smash Mouth.

References

• The Official Doors Website. The Doors | Jim Morrison. Accessed on May 18, 2005.
• Peace Frog Lyrics - The Doors. Accessed on May 18, 2005.

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