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Live at Fillmore East, NYC, NY - November 13, 1970

Linked material:

Beat the boots II - Tengo ‘na minchia tanta

 

  1 Does this kind of life look interesting to you? {Dental hygiene dilemma}
  2 A pound for a brown (on the bus)
  3 Sleeping in a jar (with extensions)
  4 Sharleena
  5 The Sanzini brothers [Ian Underwood, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan]
  6 What will this morning bring me this evening?
  7 What kind of girl do you think we are?
  8 Bwana Dik {Duodenum}
  9 Latex solar beef
10 Daddy, daddy, daddy
11 Little house I used to live in
12 Holiday in Berlin
13 Inca roads + Easy meat
14 Cruising for burgers

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa, except as noted above.


1. Does this kind of life look interesting to you? {Dental hygiene dilemma}


[Jeff Simmons] This is the people right here. I’m sorry about the beer on you guys. This guy right here, can we have a spot on this guy? That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, does his kind of life look interesting to you? THE NEW NUMBER ONE ON THE BOSS 30!
 
Hu-tuu hu-tuu huu
Rennetehen
Rennetehen
Rennetehen
 
[Jeff Simmons] Hi, does his kind of life look interesting to you? Full employment benefits with a fake tie. Veteran approved mexi-chinks on duty. To serve you in the speech impediment lounge of the Fillmore East.
 
RENNETEHEN
RENNETEHEN
Ho-ooo-ho

2. A pound for a brown (on the bus)


[Instrumental]

3. Sleeping in a jar (with extensions)


[Instrumental]
 
Rance
 
[Instrumental]
 
[Jeff Simmons] And now, from the Harry McDuckbibe Afghan rug lounge, high atop the U.N. building. And now… ta-da-ta-ta-ta ranna-ha-ta-da, we bring you El Porko the Magnificent, ably assisted by his accomplice Birdman Fitzgerald. And the famous “your neck is my neck”.
 
[FZ] Porko’s sword is very sharp
 
Yeah!
 
[Instrumental]
 
Rance Muhammitz
 
Two times

4. Sharleena


Oooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh
 
I’m cryin’, I’m cryin’
Cryin’ for Sharleena, don’t you know?
I called up all my baby’s friends an’ ask’n ‘um where she done went
But nobody ‘round here seems to know where my Sharleena’s been
Where my Sharleena’s been
 
I’m cryin’, I’m cryin’
I’m cryin’ (Oohh!) for Sharleena, can’t you see?
I called up all my baby’s friends an’ ask’n ‘um where she done went
But nobody ‘round here seems to know where my Sharleena’s been
Where my Sharleena’s been
 
Ten long years I been lov’n her
Ten long years and I thought deep down in my heart she was mine
Ten long years I been lov’n her
Ten long years I would call her my baby and now I’m always cryin’
[…]
 
I would be so delighted, I would be so delighted
If they would just send her on home to me
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!
I would be so delighted (Sharleena!), I would be so delighted
If they would just send her on home to me
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!
Ooooh ooooh ooooh!
Send my love to Sharleena
 
Why doesn’t somebody, some second, some minute, some hour, some day, some month, some week, some year
Why don’t you, why don’t you, why don’t you, yeah
Why don’t you send her home?
Why don’t you come on and send my ever-lovin’ Sharleena home?
Send my baby home to me-eeeeeeeeee!
Why don’t you send her home to me-e-e-e-yeah?

5. The Sanzini brothers


[Jeff Simmons] Now he’s just about set. A little music, please.
Hut
Girdle rides up
 
THE SANZINI BROTHERS!
 
[FZ] In the trade that’s known as filler crap, ladies and gentlemen. We are stickin’ in there to occupy time between songs. Don’t let it worry you.

6. What will this morning bring me this evening?


[FZ] I think the next number that we’re gonna perform should be uh… No, we played that in the last show, I’m trying to give you a variety. Yeah, I know, “Louie Louie”. Let’s do the whole opera.
Hey, hut

[FZ] OK, you’ll have to imagine, across the front of the stage each one of these microphones represents a motel room (BURP - Pardon me, ladies and gentlemen). And each one of these rooms houses a potential pop-star on his way to the top, touring across America in the dingy little psychedelic dungeons , working his little fingers to the bone, tryin’ to make it big in the nookie circuit. And here we are, this little uh… underground group in a rancid town and we’re preparing to go out on a search for some nubile ginch and we’re… we’re there the day before the concert and none of the groupies in town know that we’re there at the motel, see, and so we’re preparing to go out to the local nightclub, so we can hustle. This is it, we’re putting on our English leather cologne.
[Howard Kaylan, on the right] Thirty days on the fucking road. I don’t believe it, man. I can’t believe it. Another night at a fucking Holiday Inn, another night. Aynsley ripped off my chick, ripped off Mark’s chick, ripped off Frank’s chick. I did everything. I can’t even believe it. I put on a new shirt, I sprayed my pits. I got some stuff here that’s supposed to make me really alluring. Tinsel glitter. Danny Hutton puts this on his face all the time. He’s seductive. He gets laid. I can’t stand it. I think he balls Chuck Negron, but who am I to say? He gets laid. And I don’t have nothin’. I can’t believe it. What do I… I got? Aynsley, down in the bar? I can’t stand it. I gotta get laid. This glitter has worked for others, PERHAPS IT WILL WORK FOR ME.
[FZ] Aynsley took the batteries out of my wah-wah pedal for his vibrator
[Mark Volman, on the left] The next thing you know, man, you just wanna get laid. I mean you wanna… you clean up, you go in, you’re a pop-star. Man, I can’t believe it. If I woulda gone to that hotel, if I woulda gone to that club with Frank, I woulda got recognized and maybe got laid. I haven’t gotten laid in twelve days, man. This is unbelievable. I mean, I’m a pop-star. Frank told me: “Join this group, you’re gonna be a big star”. Let me tell you, the Turtles five years, it doesn’t mean shit, let me tell you. Danny Hutton, Three Dog Night, they are a big group. They are a happening group. They get laid all the time. Tinsel glitter. I’m telling you, Three Dog Night never failed one. “Easy to be hard”. He is God. Tonight, I am gonna go to that club, and I am gonna go with Frank ‘cause they’ll recognize me, tonight. This glitter has worked for others, PERHAPS IT WILL WORK FOR ME.
 
What will this morning bring me this evening?
What will this morning bring me this evening?
Some local hot action before we are leaving
 
Go to the club or the bar or wherever the pussy is found in the town your band been booked to play in
It’s always a little bit harder to score if it’s just your first time in a town you never hit before
 
If you played in it once and got laid
You’ve got it made
OHHWWW, GOT IT MADE
If it’s just your first time
Then you know it’s no fun to go back to a plastic hotel all alone
So you gotta…
Go to the club or the bar
Go to the club or the bar
Go to the club or the bar
Or wherever the pussy is found
 
A partial list of clubs and bars to go get laid while you’re on the road!
Nobody’s” (New York City)
Paradisio” (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Club Voom Voom” (Smatz, Austria). Ah, Smatz in the spring
The Navy Club” (San Antonio, Tejas)
“The Whisky a Go Go” (City of the angels)
Max’s Kansas City” (New York City)

7. What kind of girl do you think we are?


What’s a girl like you doin’ in a place like this?
I left my place after midnight and I came to the club
Me and my girlfriend, we came here lookin’ for love
You came to the right place, this is it
This is the swingin’-est place in New York City
No shit!
 
How true that is!
How true indeed
Me and my girlfriend, we come here every Friday an’ Saturday night looking for the hot romance we need
We like to get it on. Do you like to get it on, too?
Well, what did you have in mind?
Well, listen
Well, I get off bein’ juked with a baby octopus or spewed upon with creamed corn
Aaaah unh!
An’ my girlfriend, she digs it with a hot Seven-Up bottle while somebody’s yellin’:
CORKS AN’ SAFETIES, CORKS AN’ SAFETIES OOHOOOO”
 
Gets me so hot I could scream:
CORKS AN’ SAFETIES, CORKS AN’ SAFETIES OOHOOOO
CORKS AN’ SAFETIES, CORKS AN’ SAFETIES WOWWWW
You two chicks sound real far out and groovy. Ever been to a Holiday Inn?
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaa

Magic Fingers in the bed , wall-mounted TV screens
Coffee-Host plugged into the bathroom wall, Formica’s really keen!
 
What kind of girl?
What kind of girl do you think we are?
What kind of girl?
What kind of girl do you think we are?
Don’t call us “groupies”, that is going too far
What kind of girl?
We wouldn’t ball you just because you’re a star
These girls wouldn’t let just anybody… spew on their vital parts
They want a guy from a group with a big hit single in the charts!
 
Funny you should mention it: our new single made the charts this week with a bullet!
With a bullet!
Just let me put a little… little more tinsel glitter on my face right now, and you can show me how a young girl such as you might be THRILLED and overwhelmed by me
What Holiday Inn did you say you were staying at?
Wanna split right away?
Not so fast, you silly boy. There’s one thing we gotta say:
 
We want a guy from a group who’s got a thing in the charts
We want a guy from a group who’s got a thing in the charts
We want a guy from a group who’s got a thing in the charts
We want a guy from a group who’s got a thing in the charts

8. Bwana Dik {Duodenum}


And if his dick is a monster…
If his dick is a monster…
If his dick is a monster…
They will give him their hearts
 
Hold it, hold it, hold it, God!
Stop the music
Why didn’t you say so before?
 
I’ve got the thing you need
I am endowed beyond your wildest
Clearasil-spattered fantasies
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
 
Girls from all over the world
Flock to write my name on the toilet walls
Of the Whisky a Go Go
For I AM BWANA DIK
HE IS BWANA DIK
HIM BWANA DIK
ME BWANA DIK
 
My dick is a monster
Give me your heart
Bwana Dik is a legend, enormous thou art
My dick is a Harley
You kick it to start
Bwana Dik speaks, the heavens will part
My dick is a dagger
I’ll force it to fit
My dick is a reamer
To scream up your slit
STEAM IT! STEAM IT! REAM IT! CREAM IT!

9. Latex solar beef


You can hear the steam
You can hear the screaming steam
As the reamer steams up the lake
To the snake and the black velvet crystal
 

HOT ROD ELECTRIC, QUADRAPHONIC, PANCHROMATIC , […] BATTERY OPERATED STEAMROLLER!
 
Help me, help me, help me, help me!
 
Feel the steam

See the steam
Hear the steam
Heal the steaming hot black screaming
Iridescent Naugahyde python’s gleaming
Steam roller
 
All groupies must bow down
In the sacred presence of the Latex Solar Beef
 
The steam is coming out
The steam is coming…
OWW OWW OWW OWWWW
 
LISTENNNNNN! THE STEAM IS WHISTLING

10. Daddy, daddy, daddy


She’s such a dignified lady
She’s so pretty and soft
You can’t call her a groupie
It just pisses her off
She got diamonds and jewelry
She got lotsa new clothes
She ain’t hurtin’ for money
So that everyone knows…
 
That she knows what she wants
Knows what she likes
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Look out, she’s got her eyes on you
 

She left her place after midnight
La la la la la
And she drove to the club
La la la la-ee-ah!
You know that her and her partner
La la la la la
Came here lookin’ for love
La la la la-ee-ah!
They want a guy from a group
La la la la la
That’s got a thing in a charts
La la la la-ee-ah!
IF HIS DICK IS A MONSTER…
IF HIS DICK IS A MONSTER…
IF HIS DICK IS A MONSTER…
THEY WILL GIVE HIM THEIR HEARTS
 
‘Cause they know what they want
Know what they like
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Look out, they got their eyes on you
 
Sky Saxon blues band
 
They spotted George Duke at the end of the bar
They go up and say “hi” and ask if he has a car
He says he don’t, they say they do
They say: “Let’s get it on
By a half of a minute and you know they are gone
 
‘Cause he’s got what they want
He knows what they like
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Awright, you got ‘em screamin’ all night
 
One mo’, one more
 
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Daddy, daddy, daddy, oooh!
Awright, you got ‘em screamin’ all night
La la la la la
Screamin’ all night
 
Now you’ll just have to use your teen-age imagination and picture…

11. Little house I used to live in


One, two, three
 
[Instrumental]
 
Penis dimension
Penis dimension
Penis dimension
Penis dimension
 
Ooh!
 
They want a guy from a group with a thing in the charts
If his dick is a monster they will give him their hearts!
 
Aynsley Dunbar!
 
His penis is a monster
His penis is a monster
His penis is a monster
Monster dick, monster dick, monster dick, monster dick
 
His penis is a monster
His penis is a monster
His penis is a monster
Monster dick, monster dick, monster dick, monster dick
 
HOOPLA!
La la la laaaa
 
WHOOLA LA LAAAA
 
[Instrumental]
 
My penis is a monster
Your penis is a monster
Our penes are all monsters
Penis dimension is calling me, calling me
 
My penis is a monster
Your penis is a monster
Our penes are all monsters
Penis dimension is calling me, calling me
 
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
Mud shark
 
Mud shark!

12. Holiday in Berlin


La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
 
Ance Muhammitz
Snats Muhammitz
Frank Muhammitz
Vance Muhammitz
Rance (Mud shark) Muhammitz
Ruth Underwood
Leona Nichols
 
Went on the road for a month touring
What a drag! You gotta go
Even if you’d rather be at home
Flaked out in Hollywood
 
Drove to Inglewood and then we dumped
All our shit into the plane at five-o-three
What’s it gonna be?
Chicken, beef or turkey?
Yes
La la la la
Crab salad, shrimp salad
Little ham hocks with names
 
Look at all the Germans
La la la la la la
Watch them follow orders
La la la la la la
See them think they’re doing something groovy in the streets
Rance
 
See the student leader
La la la la la la
He’s a rebel prophet
La la la la la la
He’s fucked up, he’s still a Nazi like his mom and dad
 
Played for a night in Berlin
That afternoon we set up our shit and rehearsed
 
Half a dozen phony student rebels in the hall
Came to see if I could find a way to help them all
 
“What is your desire?”
La la la la la la
“Help us start a fire
La la la la la la
In the Allied Center, round the corner down the street”
 
And then we began to play
A bunch of punks arose from the crowd
Student rebels, their flags of red
Began to chant “Ho Chi Minh
“Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh
Threw tomatoes
 
And the next thing we knew we were under siege
 
[Instrumental]

13. Inca roads + Easy meat


[Instrumental]

14. Cruising for burgers


[Instrumental]
 
I must be free
My, my oh my fake I.D.
Freeeeeees me
 
Gotta do a few things to make my life complete
(SURE!)
I gotta live my life (Where?) out on the street
 
The difference between us is not very far
Cruising for burgers in daddy’s new car
 
My phony freedom card brings to me
Instantly
Ecstasy
Ecstasy!
ECS-TA-SYYYYY!


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