What were the *original* lyrics that ended up 'anna godda da vida'?

Answer 1

As to the birth of “In The Garden of Eden”, Ron Bushy lays claim to that: “I was supporting the band by making pizza,” he says. “I came home at three in the morning from working one night and Doug played me a song he was writing. He polished off a whole gallon of Red Mountain Wine as the evening wore on. He played this song on the keyboard and he was so drunk that it came out as ‘in-a-gadda-da-vida.’ I thought it was real catchy so I just wrote it down phonetically. The next morning we woke up, looked at the writing, ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,’ and decided to keep the title.” As the group became more comfortable with the song and its concept, it grew longer and longer in performance.

“We were about eight minutes into it,” recalls Dorman, “Then we got an opportunity to go on the road with the Jefferson Airplane, and by that time, “Vida”, which we called it, was up to ten, eleven, twelve minutes and moving along. When the tour got to New York, it was time to record.

“The song then took on a life of its own,” says Dorman. Although the album’s production was credited to Jim Hilton, it was veteran engineer Don Casale (The Rascals, Vanilla Fudge) who actually recorded the date. “I had a good half reel of tape left,” recalls Casale, “and Ingle said, ‘You’d better get another reel of tape.’ I said, ‘I’ve got plenty left.’ He said, ‘Trust me, you’re gonna need a new reel.’”

Executives were wary of putting a 17-minute song on an album. They wanted pop songs. “We said, ‘What are you going to cut out?’” says Dorman. “There’s only about a minute and a half of lyrics, the rest is instrumental. No way. It was like a sonata, if you will. It’s an expression of the music.”

Vida would never would have succeeded without the help of FM radio, whose free-form stoner “Ten records back-to-back for all you heads out there!” style had just taken off. The track became an “underground” sensation with the kinds of DJs and kids who thought they were smashing the system by listening to a song that was longer than three minutes. The album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida eventually stayed on the Billboard chart for 140 weeks, including 81 weeks in the Top 10. It became the first album certified as a Platinum Record for sales of more than a million copies. To date, it has sold over 25 million copies worldwide.
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A commonly repeated story says that the song title was originally "In the Garden of Eden," but in the course of rehearsing and recording singer Doug Ingle slurred the words into the nonsense phrase of the title while under the influence of LSD. The truth (according to the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation) is that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and couldn't hear correctly; he simply distorted what Doug Ingle answered when Ron asked him for the title of the song.
-Wikipedia

Answer 2

First of all it's Inna Godda Davida.
I know Iron Butterfly did it....

Answer 3

In the Garden of Eden baby

Answer 4

In the Garden of Eden (and it's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida")

Answer 5

IT'S INNA NOT ANNA!!!!!