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You can’t do that on stage anymore Vol. 4

 

Disc 1
  1 Little rubber girl [Denny Walley, Frank Zappa]
  2 Stick together
  3 My guitar wants to kill your mama
  4 Willie the pimp
  5 Montana
  6 Brown Moses
  7 The evil prince
  8 Approximate
  9 Love of my life - Mudd Club version
10 {The hook +} Let’s move to Cleveland solos (1984)
11 You call that music?
12 Pound for a brown solos (1978)
13 The black page (1984)
14 Take me out to the ball game [Albert Von Tilzer, Jack Norworth]
15 Filthy habits
16 The torture never stops - Original version

 

Disc 2
  1 Church chat
  2 Stevie’s spanking
  3 Outside now
  4 Disco boy
  5 Teen-age wind
  6 Truck driver divorce
  7 Florentine Pogen
  8 Tiny sick tears [Rudy Martinez, Frank Zappa]
  9 {The hook +} Smell my beard [Frank Zappa + Frank Zappa, George Duke]
10 The booger man [Frank Zappa, George Duke, Napoleon Murphy Brock]
11 Carolina hard core ecstasy
12 Are you upset?
13 Little girl of mine [Morris Levy, Herbert Cox]
14 The closer you are [Earl Lewis, Bobby Robinson]
15 Johnny darling [Louis Statton, Johnny Statton]
16 No, no cherry [Little Caesar, John Gray]
17 The man from Utopia [Donald Woods, Doris Woods]
18 Mary Lou [Obie Jessie]

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa, except as noted above.


Disc 1

1. Little rubber girl


[FZ] Thank you! OK, sit down. Some more raw, unbridled buffoonery for you and yours, during this festive holiday season.
 

A year ago today was when you went away

But now you come back knockin’ on my door

And you say you’re back to stay

But I say…

 
I don’t need you
I don’t need you
I don’t want you
I don’t want you
I don’t need you
Oh, you treat me so bad, baby
I don’t love you
Oh, you treat me like a piece of shit
I don’t need you
Oh, you know that’s not it
I don’t want you
I can’t use you
Gotta get a rubber girl
Need a rubber girl
Rubber girl
Send me up a little rubber girl
Y’know I can put it in the back
I got a rubber girl
I get one with a 69 dollar battery pack
Here comes my rubber girl
The little rubber girl
A little rubber girl
She loves to do anything I want
Little rubber girl
My little rubber girl
My little rubber girl
I pull the string and she do anything
I know she loves me
I can put it in the back
I know she loves me
I can put it in the front crack
Know she loves me
I can push her tonsils down her throat
I know she loves me
And make that bitch scream like a goat
I never have no trouble with my rubber girl
I love to bend her over and ram it all the way in
I never have any trouble with the little rubber girl
And then go back and do it again
I never have no trouble with the little rubber girl
Y’know you treated me like shit
I never have no trouble with the little rubber girl
OH, that’s why I never fucked you, baby
I love my little rubber girl
My little rubber girl
I never have no trouble with my little rubber girl
She’s the only girl
I never have no trouble with my little rubber girl
I just pull the string and she don’t talk back
And she dances great!
She likes to put it in the back
I don’t need you
My kind of girl
Little rubber girl
Y’know I fuck you every day
Run-nnn-nn-nnn-rubber-girl
And you treat me like shit
Run-nnn-nn-nnn-nn-nnn-rubber-girl
Fuck you bitch I’m gonna rape…
Run-nnn-nn-nnn-nn-nnn-nn-nnn-little-rubber-girl
My little rubber girl
Run-nnn-nn-nnn-nn-nnn-nn-nnn-little-rubber-girl
Little rubber girl
Little rubber girl
Oh, my little rubber girl, rubber girl
Little rubber girl
OH, my little rubber girl
Little rubber girl
HEY, my little rubber girl
I don’t need you
69 dollars’ll put you in heaven, baby
You know…
Me and my rubber girl
You must admit you’re… baby
We get along really swell, we never argue
Three holes, no waiting

2. Stick together


[FZ] This is a song about the union, friends
How they fucked you over and the way they bends
The rules to suit a special few
And you gets pooched every time they do
 
You know we gotta stick together
People, we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
People, we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
 
Once upon a time the idea was good
If only they’d a-done what they said they would
It ain’t no better, they’s makin’ it worse
The labor movement got the mafia curse
 
You know we gotta stick together
People, we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
People, we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
 
Don’t be no fool, don’t be no dope
Common sense is your only hope
When the union tells you it’s time to strike
Tell the motherfucker to take a hike
 
Oh yeah
You know we gotta stick together
People, we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
People, we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick together
You know we gotta stick…

3. My guitar wants to kill your mama


[FZ] You know, your mama and your daddy
Saying I’m no good for you
They call me “Dirty from the alley”
Till I don’t know what to do
 
I get so tired of sneakin’ around just to get to your back door
I crawled past the garbage and your mama jumped out, screamin’: “Don’t come back no more!”
I can’t take it!
 
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to burn your dad
I get real mean when it makes me mad
 
Later I tried to call you
Your mama told me you weren’t there
(You just weren’t there)
She told me don’t bother to call again
Unless I cut off all my hair
 
I get so tired of sneakin’ around just to get to your back door
I crawled past the garbage and your mama jumped out, screamin’: “Don’t come back no more!”
I can’t take it!
 
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to burn your dad
I get real mean when it makes me mad
 
[Instrumental]
 
Later I tried to call you
Your mama told me you weren’t there
(You just weren’t there)
She told me don’t bother to call again
Unless I cut off all my hair
 
I get so tired of sneakin’ around just to get to your back door
I crawled past the garbage and your mama jumped out, screamin’: “Don’t come back no more!”
I can’t take it!
 
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to burn your dad
I get real mean when it makes me mad

4. Willie the pimp


I’m a little pimp with my hair gassed back

A pair a khaki pants and my shoe shined black
I got a little lady… she walks the street
Tellin’ all the boys that she cain’t be beat
 
She can’t be beat, she can’t be beat
She’s so sweet, you know she can’t be beat
She can’t be beat, she can’t be beat
She’s so sweet, you know she can’t be beat
 
“A twenny dollah bill (I can set you straight)
Meet me onna corner, boy, an’ don’t be late”
Man in a suit with a bow-tie neck
Tryna buy some pussy with a third party check
 
A third party check, a third party check
He’s tryna buy some pussy with a third party check
A third party check, a third party check
He’s tryna buy some pussy with a third party check
 
Standin’ onna porch of the Lido Hotel
Floozies in the lobby love the way I sell:
Hot meat
Hot rats
Hot cats
Hot zitz
Hot meat
Hot feet
Hot rats
Hot cats
 
[Instrumental]

5. Montana


[FZ] I might be movin’ to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of dental floss
 
Raisin’ it up
Waxin’ it down
In a little white box
That I can sell uptown
 
By myself I wouldn’t have no boss
But I’d be raisin’ my lonely dental floss
 
Raisin’ my lonely dental floss
Raisin’ my lonely dental floss
 
Well, I just might grow me some bees
But I’d leave the sweet stuff to somebody else
(How ‘bout you there?)
But then, on the other hand I would…
 
Keep the wax
An’ melt it down
Pluck the floss
An’ swish it aroun’
 
And I’d have me a crop
Dooh-dooh-dooh-dooh-dooh-dooh-dooh dah-dah-dah
An’ it’d be on top (that’s why I’m movin’ to Montana)
 
Movin’ to Montana soon
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon
(Yes, I am)
I’m movin’ to Montana soon
Gonna be a mennil-toss flykune
(Look out!)
 
[Instrumental]
 
I’m pluckin’ the ol’ dennil floss
That’s growin’ on the prairie, pluckin’ the floss
I plucked all day an’ all nite an’ all afternoon…
 
Oh!
I’m ridin’ a small tiny hoss
(His name is “Mighty Little”) he’s a good hoss
Even though he’s a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or blanket on anyway
He’s a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or blanket on anyway
Anyway
 
I’m pluckin’ the ol’ dennil floss
Even if you think it is a little silly, folks
I don’t care if you think it’s silly, folks
I don’t care if you think it’s silly, folks
 
I’m gonna find me a horse (uh-huh?) just about this big (yes, sir)
An’ ride that sucker all along the border line
With a…
 
Pair of heavy-duty
Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand
Every other wrangler would say
I was mighty grand
 
But by myself I wouldn’t have no boss
‘Cause I’d be raisin’ that lonely dental floss
 
Raisin’ my lonely dental floss
Hopla!
Raisin’ my lonely dental floss
 
Well, I might ride along the border
With my tweezers gleamin’ in the moon-lighty night
And then I would…
 
Get a cuppa cawfee
An’ give my foot a push…
Just me an’ the pygmy pony
Over by the dennil floss bush
 
An’ then I might just sorta jump back on
An’ ride like a dipshit into the dawn to Montana
 
Movin’ to Montana soon
Yippy-ty-o-ty-ay
[Repeat]

6. Brown Moses


Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo
Ooo-ooo
 
What wickedness id dis?
De way you’s carryin’ on!
Dis pygmy I been clutchin’
Have been lef’ out on de lawn!
 
De daddy were ne-glij-ible
De mama were de-flate-able
De trauma to de imfunt
Be mostly not ne-gate-able
 
Yo’ urgin’ to be exitin’
Because of dem fla-MIN-I-GO’S
Be thoroughly perplexin’ him

Because of where yo’ Petuh goes
 
If only you been ‘siderate
Erbout dis lil’ illiterate

I wouldna been trudgin’ cross de san’
Way down yonder in E-gyp-lan’
 
Dey callin’ me “Brown Moses”
Fo’ dat id sho’ly what I am
Ancient an’ re-lij-er-mus
Solemn an’ pres-tig-i-mus
 
Wisdom reekin’ outta me
‘Long wif summa dis baby pee
‘Minds me of dem river weeds
An’ all dem ignint Bible deeds
 
Growed up in de Pharoah place
Lef’ de sucker in disgrace!
Some dem boys refuse to loin
Somethin’ smokin’, somethin’ boin!
 
Somethin’ borry, somethin’ blue!
Best keeps a lil’ paper in yo’ shoe!
Hear me when I’m tellin’ you:
“Leavin’ de midgit were wrong t’do!”
 
It’s a terr’ble thang, done did to him!
Left wit de crab-grass over his CHIN!
 
Sho’ly one day he will grow

An’ put some shit in yo’ sack o’ woe
 
Ol’ Brown Moses now have spoke!
Could ya lend me ‘bout a dollar? I’s a tiny bit broke
 

I likes my wine, I loves my gin
An’ fo’ a lil’ collateral I’ll gives ya him!
A lil’ collateral I’ll gives ya him!
A lil’ collateral I’ll gives ya him!
For a lil’ collateral
A lil’ collateral
A lil’ collateral
A lil’ collateral
A lil’ collateral
A lil’ collateral
A lil’ collateral
For a lil’ collateral
I’ll gives you HIM!
I’ll gives you…
TAKE A POMPADOUR, BABY!

7. The evil prince


[Notes by FZ on “YCDTOSA Sampler” - reverse translation from Spanish] This complicated arrangement has been developed during the soundchecks in the 1984 tour. The comparison with the original version in “Thing-Fish” will give an approximate idea of how things can musically twist along a tour.
 

Well, well, well, now, dis de nasty sucker dat be respondable fo’ de en-whiffment o’ de origumal potium. Now, in his infinate respondable party personaged as the Evil Prince, and through de magik o’ stage-kraft of course, we’s about to see what gwine on in his magikal conjurance up of his lil’ cauldrom o’ doom! Now check it on out now.
 
Somewhere, over there, I can tell
I guess so

There’s a voice of a potato-headed whatchamacallit
Whoo, do tell!
Who does not wish me well!
 
His clothes are quite stupid and also his shoes!
Ain’t no biznis like show biznis
He’s got a big ol’ duck-mouth! (Who knows how he chews!)
 
He thinks he knows something about the great plan!
How ultimate BLANDNESS must RULE and COMMAND
 
He knows not a drop, not a crumb, not a whit
Of the reason for doing this criminal shit
And then, if he did would it matter a bit?
 
NOT AT ALL!
Because it is WRIT
Our beige-blandish God tends to CERTIFY IT:
 
“Only the boring and bland shall survive!
Only the lamest of lameness will thrive!”
Take it or leave it, you won’t be alive
If you are overtly CREATIVE!
 
Fairies and faggots and queers are “creative”
All the best music on Broadway is “native”
Who will step forward and end all this trouble?
For beige-blandish citizens clutching the rubble
Of vanishing dreams, of wimpish amusement
Replaced by a rash of “creative” CONFUSEMENT!
 
Soon, my brave zombies, you’ll make your return
Broadway will GLOW! Broadway will burn!
(Along with the remnants of EVERYTHING NEW)
My holy disease will DO wonders for you!
Those lovely producers who paid for you ‘then’
Will do it again, and again, and again!
 
The spying potato
The spying potato!
With horrible diction
That terrible diction!
Will rot in the garbage
I can smell it right now!
When this show’s eviction
Takes place shortly after my alternate skill
Of theatrical sabotage, triumphs YOUR WILL!
 
I’ve a special review
Yes I know you really do
I’ve been saving for years
Yes I know you really have
For a show just like THIS
For a really stupid show
With potatoes and QUEERS
 
I’ll say it’s disgusting, atrocious, and dull
I’ll say it makes boils inside of your skull
I’ll say it’s the worst-of-the-worst of the year

No wind down the plain, and it’s HARD on your ear
I’ll say it’s the work of an infantile mind
I’ll say that it’s tasteless, and that you will find
A better excuse to spend money or time
At a Tupperware party

So, do be a smarty!
Hold on to that dollar a little while longer
For spending it here, why, it couldn’t be wronger!
 
WHAT’S HAPPENED TO BROADWAY?
WHERE’S IT GONE, ALL THE GLITTER?
THE “HEART” AND “SOUL”
THE PATTER?
THE PITTER?
 
And after this deadly review hits the paper
In will come roper, bender & raper
To legally execute all that remains
Of this tragic amusement for drug-addled brains
Drug-addled brains
 
[Instrumental]
 
Hold on to that G-string a little while longer
For bending it here, why, it couldn’t be wronger!
 
WHAT’S HAPPENED TO BROADWAY?
WHERE’S IT GONE, ALL THE GLITTER?
THE “HEART” AND “SOUL”
THE PATTER?
THE PITTER?
 
And after this deadly review hits the paper
In will come roper, bender & raper
To legally execute all that remains
Of this tragic amusement for drug-addled brains
Hey hey hey hey hey hey, brai-hains

8. Approximate


[Instrumental]
 
Heinz, Heinz
 
Make food
AH OH EH AH
Heinz!
 
Dagmar, din-din!
 

Stayin’ alive

 

Ah ah ah ah

 
There’s a ‘39 Buick blocking the driveway

9. Love of my life - Mudd Club version


[FZ] Thank you!
 
Love of my life, I love you so
Love of my life, don’t ever go
I love you only, love, love of my life
Ahh, love of my life
 
Stars in the sky, they never lie
Tell me you need me, don’t say goodbye
I love you only, love, love of my life
Oo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo
 
Stars in the sky, they never lie
Tell me you need me, don’t say goodbye
I love you, darling, I love you only
Don’t ever leave me, don’t make me lonely
 
Love of my life, I love you so
Love of my life, don’t ever go
I love you only, love, love of my life
My love, love of my life
Ahh, love of my life
Love of my life
My love, love of my life
Ahh, love of my life
Love of my life
Oo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo
Love of my life
Oo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo
Love of my life
Oo-oo-oo oo-oo-oo-oo
Love of my…

10. {The hook +} Let’s move to Cleveland solos (1984)


[Instrumental]

11. You call that music?


[Notes by FZ on “YCDTOSA Sampler” - reverse translation from Spanish] Another aspect of the repertoire of the first MOI: dissonance and abstraction… the kind of stuff that used to make rock critics apoplectic.
 
[Instrumental]

12. Pound for a brown solos (1978)


[Instrumental]

13. The black page (1984)


[Instrumental]

14. Take me out to the ball game


[Ike Willis] Awright, welcome, and good evening to the baseball game. I’m Skip Caray, I’m with Pete Van Wieren, for another game between the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs. The Braves are featuring another outstanding cast.
ARF
[Ike Willis] We got a wonderful cast of characters here. He’s a home run hitter and RBI leader for the year, what do you think?
[Walt Fowler] Well uh… I don’t know what the problem is with uh… these Braves this year, they’ve uh… they’ve really been having trouble with one run games, on Sundays for some reason. I don’t know what it is, what do you think?
WOOH
[Ike Willis] Well, Pete… the Dodgers had it last… that problem last year, and uh… lot of one run games uh… ‘specially on Sundays, and, well, you see how they ended up uhhhh… last in the league. Uhhh… Coming over here, Zane Smith is pitching today and I hear he’s got good stuff.
[Walt Fowler] Well, actually I think the main problem is uh… the rookies um… the rookies have just not be coming through. They haven’t been able to handle that curve ball. Seems to me like they really got over that.
[Ike Willis] Oh, here he goes ag. Smash foul! Dawson up to the plate.
“That goes for your little dog, too!”

[Walt Fowler] He really gets a hold of that one, it’s gone. Yes, Elvis has left the building!
“That goes for your little dog, too!”
“That goes for your little dog, too!”
[Ike Willis] Move away for the seventh-inning stretch after theeeeee game
“That goes for your little dog, too!”
“That goes for your little dog, too!”
 
[Instrumental]
 
They… ‘re singing
He… swung on it an’ missed
Smash foul!
WOOH
Fans getting out of here in a hurry
The… player steps up to the plate
ARF
Take me… out to the game
Uh… You can buy me… some peanuts… and Cracker Jack
I don’t care if he… never gets back
Swung on it an’ missed

15. Filthy habits


[Instrumental]

16. The torture never stops - Original version


[Don Van Vliet] Flies all green an’ buzzin’ in his dungeon of despair
Prisoners grumble and piss they clothes and scratch their matted hair
A tiny light from a window hole a hundred yards away
That all they ever get to know ‘bout the regular life in the day
‘Bout the regular life in the day
 
Slime an’ rot an’ rats an’ snot, vomit on the floor
Fifty ugly soldiers, man, holdin’ spears by the iron door
 
Stinks so bad, stones are chokin’ weepin’ greenish drops
In the den where the giant fire puffer woik an’ the torchum never stops, talkin’
Torchum never stops, talkin’
Torchum never stops
Torchum never stops
 
Flies all green an’ buzzin’ in his dungeon of despair
An Evil Prince eats a steamin’ pig in a tumbers right near there
In the chamber right near there
He eats the snouts an’ trotters first
The loins an’ the groins are then dispersed
His carvin’ style is well rehearsed
 
He stands and shouts:
“All men be coist”
“All men be coist”
“All men be coist”
“All men be coist”
And disagree, well, no-one durst
He the best of course of all the woist
Best of course of all the woist
 
[Instrumental]
 
He stinks so bad, his stones been chokin’ weepin’ greenish drops
In the room where the iron maiden an’ the torchum never stops, talkin’
Torchum never stops
Torchum never stops, talkin’
Torchum never stops
 
Flies all green an’ buzzin’ in his dungeon of despair
Who are all those people that he’s shut away down there?
Are they crazy?
Are they sainted?
Are they zeros someone painted?
Someone painted
Are they -isms later ornated?
Once they come they have been tainted
Once they come they have been tainted
 
Never been explained since at first it was created
But a dungeon, and its kin
Requires naught but lockin’ in
Of any anything that’s been
Could be a her but it’s prob’ly a him
Could be a her but it’s prob’ly a him
It’s what’s the deal we’re dealing in
It’s what’s the deal we’re dealing in
 
An’ he thinks so bad it’s hurt to the pearl and the piles of blast
Any dungeon have a trailer were the torchum never stops, talkin’ now
Torchum never stops
Torchum never stops, talkin’ to you
Torchum never stops
 
[Instrumental]

Disc 2

1. Church chat


[FZ] You know, today the church is in a terrible state. The bucks just aren’t rollin’ in like they used to. And when the bucks don’t come in, the church comes up with a new gimmick to make you spend to go to heaven. Now, I know you don’t know what I’m talking about, but what the fuck. But anyway, listen to this, ladies and gentlemen, when the church wants to get your money they remind you about HELL.
Whoo-hoo-hoo-HA-HA
If you commit a sin you’re gonna go to HELL
Oui-oui
Well, let me give you an example, this boy over here
Tell ‘em about it, brother Zappa
Sometimes people say that if you FUCK somebody
Oh Lord
It’s a sin
Oui-oui
This may or may not be true
Testify
This boy not only fucked somebody with his organ, but he also fucked a girl with a GUITAR
Woo-hoo
With an UMBRELLA
Oui oui
With a ZUCCHINI
Testify
Oui
With a SHOE
Oui
With an ENEMA BAG
Ha ha
(What else did you do?)
A vibrato bar
A VIBRATO BAR! Some people would say this is a SIN. And if you SIN you’re gonna go to HELL.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, there ain’t no hell
Oui
There is no such thing as hell
Oui
There is no hell
Oui, oui
There is only FRANCE!
Oui, oui!

2. Stevie’s spanking


[Bobby Martin] His name is Stevie Vai
And he’s a crazy guy
Last November, I recall, he needed a spanking
 
He decided then
A female specimen
Would be exciting for a night to give him a spanking
 
Laurel was her name
She came to Notre Dame
(He told me just the other day he oughta be thanking her for the spanking)
 
She was large and soft
Then she beat him off
Made him drool upon his dork and gave it a wanking after the spanking
 
Hair brush!
Oh! What a hair brush!
Oh! What a hair brush!
(It’s not that he requires grooming!
Guys with light blue hair NEVER DO)
 
Then she did exclaim:
“There’s another game
That we can play with this device and then a banana”
 
It was slightly green
Vapors in between
Rising up to fill the room and cook the banana
 
She said it was dry
Stevie, won’t you try
To drool a little drool on it and grease the banana”
 
Later in the dawn
Laurel carried on
She got right up and dressed herself and ate the banana
 
[Instrumental]

3. Outside now


[Ike Willis] These executives have plooked the fuck out of me
And there’s still a long time to go before I’ve paid my debt to society

And all I ever really wanted to do was play the guitar an’ bend the string like…
Reent-toont-teent-toont-teent-toont-teenooneenoonee
 
I’ve got it
I’ll be sullen and withdrawn
I’ll dwindle off into the twilight realm of my own secret thoughts
I’ll lay on my back here ‘til dawn in a semi-catatonic state
And dream of guitar notes that would irritate
An executive kinda guy…
 
Well, I guess that one did the trick
If they only coulda heard it
Half-a-dozen of ‘em woulda strangled while they was suckin’ on each others’ dick
Yeah, but that was only a bunch of imaginary notes I played
Just a little extra somethin’ to keep me goin’ from day to day
But that’s OK
I’ll be gettin’ outta here pretty soon
Then I won’t have to live in this ugly fuckin’ room
 
I can’t wait to see what it’s like on the outside now…
An’ I can’t wait to see what it’s like on the outside now, now listen here
I can’t wait to see what it’s like on the outside now, I mean it!
I can’t wait to see what it’s like on the outside now…
 
An’ outside now…
Outside now, yeah
Outside now…
Outside now, yeah
 
[Instrumental]
 
I can’t wait to see what it’s like on the outside now, outside now…
I can’t wait to see what it’s like on the outside now…
I can’t wait to see what it’s like on the outside now…
 
[FZ] One, two, three, four

4. Disco boy


Fruit!
 
Disco Boy
[FZ] Run to the toilet, honey
Comb your hair
 
Disco Boy
Pucker your lips an’ check your shoulders
‘Cause some dandruff might be hidin’ there
 
Disco Boy, you’re the disco king
Aw, the Disco-Thing made you think someday
That you just might go somewhere
 
Disco Girl, you’re outasite
You need a Disco Boy to treat you right
He’ll do a lil’ dance
Take you home tonight
Leave his hair alone but you can kiss his comb
 
Disco Boy
Run to the toilet, honey
Comb your hair
 
Disco Boy
Shake it more than three times an’ you’re playin’ with it
While you’re standin’ there
 
Disco Boy, do the Bump every night
‘Til the Disco Girl who’s really right gonna fall for your line
An’ feed you a box fulla Chicken Delight
 
Well, disco chit-chat; so demure
Pump that booty all across the floor
A disco drink
A disco wink
You never go doody” (that’s what you think)
You never go doody” (that’s what you think)
You never go doody” (that’s what you think)
 
Doody
You never go doody
Doody
You never go doody

Go on, take your teeth out, girl!
 
Disco Boy
You got one more chance
To comb your hair again
 
Disco Boy
They’re closin’ the bar
And she’s leavin’ with your friend
 
Disco Boy, that’s the way it goes
So wipe your nose
An’ try it again to get a little pussy tomorrow
 
Disco Boy, no one understands
But thank the Lord
That you still got hands to help you do that jerkin’ that’ll blot out your Disco Sorrow
 
It’s Disco Love tonight
Make sure you look all right
It’s Disco Love tonight
Make sure you look all right

5. Teen-age wind


[Bobby Martin] I got to be free
Free as the wind
Free is the way
I got to be
 
Maybe I’m lost
Maybe I’ve sinned
I got to be
Totally free
 
[FZ] Our parents don’t love us
Our teachers they say
Things that are boring
So we’re running away
And we will be free
And people will see
That when we are free
That’s the way we should be
 
We must be free!
We must be free as the wind
We were free, well, when we were born!
We were born free, but now we are not free anymore!
 
But we wanna be free
An’ we’re gonna be free
So we wanna be free
An’ we’re gonna be free
 
Did you know that
Free is when you don’t have to pay for nothing or do nothing?
We want to be free
Free as the wind
 
Free is when you don’t have to pay for nothing or do nothing
We want to be free
Free as the wind
 
Free is when you don’t have to pay for nothing or do nothing
We want to be free
Free as the wind
Free is when you don’t have to pay for nothing or do nothing
 
We wanna… (Yeah)
We wanna… (Yeah)
We wanna… (Yeah)
We wanna be free
 
We’re gonna… (Yeah)
We’re gonna… (Yeah)
We’re gonna… (Yeah)
We’re gonna be free
 
We gotta… (Yeah)
We gotta… (Yeah)
We gotta… (Yeah)
We gotta be free
 
We gotta… (Yeah)
We gotta… (Yeah)
We gotta… (Yeah)
We gotta be free
 
We gotta… (Gotta)
Gotta… (Gotta)
Gotta be free
Gotta be free
Gotta be free
(Yeah, yeah)
[Repeat]

6. Truck driver divorce


[FZ] Truck driver divorce
It’s very sad
(Steel guitars usually weep all over it)
 
The bold & intelligent blasters of the road with their Secret Language
And their giant
Oversized
Mechanical

TRANS-CONTINENTAL HOBBY-HORSE!
 
Truck driver divorce
It’s very sad

Oh, the wife!
Oh, the kids!
Oh, the waitress!
Oh, the drive all night!
 
Sometimes when you come home
Some ugly lookin’ son-of-a-bitch is tryin’ to pooch your home-town sweetheart
 

Oh, go ride the bull
Aw, go ride the bull
Make it go up an’ down
An’ when you fall off you can eat the mattress
 
Truck driver divorce
IT’S VERY SAD
Bust yer ass
To deliver some string beans
Oh yes!
Deliver some string beans

Deliver a whole bunch of string beans to Utah!
 
[Instrumental]

7. Florentine Pogen


[Instrumental]
 
Ah-oh-oh-oh ah-oh-oh-oh ah-oh-oh-oh oh-oh
 
La-la la-la la-la la-la
La-la la-la la-la
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] She was the daughter of a wealthy Florentine Pogen
Read ‘em an’ weep” was her adjustable slogan
 
She was a debutante daisy with a color-note organ
Deep in the street she drove a ‘59 Morgan
 
WOO-LAH!
 
That’s the kinda step she takes when her hot breaks, hot brake
That’s the kinda sound she makes (Ooh, let go, uh) when her crab cakes
 
She didn’t like it when her fan belt shrunk & got shorter
(Ointment)
Battery leaks could nearly cost her a quarter
 
She didn’t want to go home an’ watch the pestle go mortar
Later she speaks on how Perellis might court her
 
La-la-la la-la-ooh
La-la-la la-la-ooh
La-la-la la-la-ooh
La-la-la la-la-ooh
 
She was the daughter (ah-ah-ahhh) of a wealthy Florentine Pogen
Po-oh
Wo-oh-oh
Po-oh
Wo-oh-oh
Po-oh
Wo-oh-oh
Ga-ya-ee-annnn
 
Read ‘em an’ weep
Take a booger home with you to…
Read ‘em an’ weep
Take a booger home with you to…
Read ‘em an’ weep
 
Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Ah-ooh-ah-ooh-ah-ooh-ah-hah
Ah-ooh-ah-ooh-ah-ooh-ah-hah
 
Butzis, Butzis, Butzis
 
Chester’s go-rilla
She go oink
Chester’s go-rilla
She go quack
Chester’s go-rilla
She go UUHH
Chester’s go-rilla
She go…

8. Tiny sick tears


[FZ] You know, sometimes in the middle of the night
You get to feeling uptight
And wish you were feelin’ alright
And you know you’re white
And you ain’t got no soul
And there’s no one with a hole nearby
And therefore in your teen-age madness and delirium
You toss and turn in your sweaty little grey teen-age sheets
In that little room with the psychedelic posters
And the red bulb
And the incense
And your bead collection
And your country song roundup books
And you cry your tiny sick tears
Tiny sick tears
Tiny sick tears
You know you gotto, gotto, gotto, gotto
You’ve gotta find some relief from the terrible
From the terrible ache that is clutching right at your heart
Because it’s hurting you to your heart
And you’re crying tiny sick tears
And you have to go downstairs
Out of your bedroom
Out into the hall
Down to the living room
Through the living room
To the kitchen
To the cookie jar
Where you wanna get your cookies
And you take the top off the cookie jar
And you stick your tiny sick hand in the cookie jar
And you reach around in the cookie jar
To find a raisin cookie
A spongy one, with the little plump raisins
A little tactile sensation for your tiny sick fingers
Squeeze the raisin on the cookie
Pull the cookie out of the jar
Stuff the raisin into your eating hole
Push it all the way in your eating hole
Now make your eating hole wrap itself around the tiny sick cookie
Scarf the cookie
Put the lid back on the jar
Go over to the ice box
Open the ice box
Pull out the box of milk
Open the box of milk
Into a triangular beak like that
Pull the little triangular beak up to your drinking hole
Up to your hole
Pour the white fluid from the drinking box into your hole
Close the beak
Reinsert the box into the ice box
Close the box door
Walk out of the kitchen
Through the living room
Back up the stairs

Past your sister’s room

Past your brother’s room

You take a mask from the ancient hallway

Make it down to your father’s room

And you walk in

And your father, your tiny sick father
Is beating his meat to a Playboy magazine
He’s got it rolled into a tube
And he’s got his tiny sick pud stuffed in the middle of it
Right flat up against the centerfold
There he is, your father with a tiny sick erection
And you walk in and you say:

“Father, I want to kill you”

And he says: “NOT NOW, SON, NOT NOW!”
 
HANDS UP!
POO-LAAAH!
 
I know that… it’s so hard to stop playing this soul music, you know, ‘cause it really… for one thing it’s really easy, and for another thing, it… wastes a lot of time while we’re on stage. We’ve learned in our travels that teenagers are ready to accept these two chords no matter how they’re played, isn’t it?
 
It makes you feel secure, ‘cause you know that after “did de dit de didde”, the other one is gonna come on. Would never fail, simple. Some people would say it’s bullshit, but we love it, don’t we kids? Meanwhile…

9. {The hook +} Smell my beard


[FZ] Now, the sound that you hear in the background right now, is the sound caused by George Duke, agitating two metal insignias. These are badges that he removed from a couple of boogers that Marty tried to palm off on him in the last town that we were… that he was in. Actually they’re booger pasties and he’s hitting the… the booger pasty with a little stick to get a very interesting musical effect. You know, he does this every night, and sometimes he becomes so overwrought, so excited by the fact that he’s actually touching a piece of metal that might have at one time come in contact with the actual flesh of a booger-bear.
[George Duke] Ooh Lord, have mercy…
[FZ] And so sometimes he MISSES IT, and he hits his thumb and he hurts himself. Yes it hurts very much, but he likes pain. We can tell that he likes pain because he’s in this group.
[George Duke] But… But… it’s very close to other things
[FZ] Yes, but later that night after George was finished fondling the booger pasty, a thought came to his mind: “How, how can I possibly get any nook tonight in Passaic if I don’t put this thing down and play the piano and get funky for these people?” AND SO, George, as you say in your language, TOOK IT AWAY!
[George Duke] But before we get funky, the continuing stories of…

[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Boogie-The-Bay!
[?] Moon Trek!
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Ha ha ha!
[George Duke] The… No, this ain’t Moon Trek this time, we go to Moon Trek next show. This is the continuing stories of the boogers of Marty Perellis. DO YOU ALL KNOW WHO HE IS? There he is. He’s got a white shirt on an’ a…
[FZ] Your two-hundred and fifty closest relatives, the Mothers of Invention!
[George Duke] Yes. Anyway, it was in my room. I INVITED SOME PEOPLE OVER. Young ladies. They looked interesting. Their names shall go unmentioned.
[FZ] The reason they looked interesting is because they apparently were intelligent enough to dress themselves
[George Duke] Anyway, what was happening was nothing, ha ha, wasn’t nothing happening, ha! So I said: “Let’s get this party on the road”. I said: “Lemme call the road manager”. I said: “What’s your name? Marty Perellis, come down here and meet Miss Cool, Miss Jew and Miss uh…”
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Stool!
[George Duke] Miss Stool
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Ha ha ha ha!
[George Duke] So we… So Marty got in there and he was there about five minutes and all of a sudden I began to hear other things. I said: “What you doing over there?” I said: “I ain’t never heard nobody do that kind of thing before”. I said: “COME OUT OF THAT CORNER, what’s wrong with you?” And so he commenced it. We were all kinda… Jeff said: “Man, what you’re doing over there?” And all it was…
[FZ] Really whipping it, just whipping it into a frenzy
[George Duke] All of a sudden, HE WAS GONE! I LOOKED AROUND AND MARTY HAD TOOK THE BOOGER OUT HIS ROOM. I said: “WHERE YOU GOING?” He went down to his room, which was room 33. AN HOUR LATER I WENT TO HIS ROOM. I KNOCKED ON HIS DOOR. I SAID: “What you doin’?” He said… I said: “Say that again”. I said: “Ho-ho”. It was LATE. WE HAD AN EIGHT O’CLOCK WAKE UP. You all know what that is. EIGHT O’CLOCK WAKE UP! EIGHT O’CLOCK WAKE UP! EIGHT O’CLOCK WAKE UP! EIGHT O’CLOCK WAKE UP! EIGHT O’CLOCK WAKE UP! EIGHT O’CLOCK WAKE UP! AAHRRRR! So, Marty came out in the hall and looked at Napoleon and said (Can I say this?) He said: “Smell my beard”
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
[George Duke] I said: “You must be crazy”, ahhh ha ha!
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I had to smell it, ha ha ha!
[George Duke] Show how y’was walking, Marty. And he said: “SMELL my beard”. I said: “I ain’t gonna smell nothing”, Napoleon said: “I’ll…”
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Check it out, I told her I’d check it out and make sure…
[George Duke] Anyway IF YOU WANNA HEAR WHAT HAPPENED THE REST OF THE NIGHT…
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] You know what it smelled like…
[FZ] Marty’s odor
[George Duke] COME TO THE NEXT SHOW FOR THE CONTINUING STORIES OF…
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Marty’s odor
[George Duke] MARTY TREK. BUT FOR NOW WE GO TO…
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Marty’s odor

10. The booger man


White juice on his beard
Well, the booger man
White juice on his beard
Get down
White juice on his beard
Well, the booger man
White juice on his beard
In my room
White juice on his beard
Look at the booger
White juice on his beard
An’ then he was gone
White juice on his beard
Wait three hours
White juice on his beard
Didn’t sing no song
White juice on his beard
I said: “What you’re doing?”
“None of your biz”
Said: “What you’re doing?”
He said: “None of your biz”
His pants were sticking to his leg
Oh! Talkin’ about the booger man
His pants were sticking to his leg
Right over there
His pants were sticking to his leg
Lord! The booger man
His pants were sticking to his leg
Had a beard
His pants were sticking to his leg
Lord! The booger man
Wonder why
They ate after six
Wonder why
I said: “What you’re doing
Wonder why
With your ol’ tricks?”
Wonder why
Oh Lord! The booger man
His pants were sticking to his leg
In my room
His pants were sticking to his leg
Him an’ booger
Stuff on his beard
Till nine noon
White stuff on his beard
What you’re doing
White cream on his beard
In my bed
White cream on his beard
With that booger
His pants were sticking to his leg
Instead
His pants were sticking to his leg
Of somebody fine?
Smell my beard
Fine, fine
Is what he said
Somebody fine
Smell my beard
Fine, fine
Is what he said
Somebody fine
Smell my beard
Fine, fine
Is what he said
Somebody fine
Sure was good
Fine, fine
Sure was fine
Somebody make you do this
 
The booger man
Get on down
Look at the booger man
Had a crown
On his head now
Cleaned his shoes
In his bed now
Playin’ the blues
Oh yeah
Well
Ah, Lord
 
[Instrumental]
 
[George Duke] You know, personally I ain’t got nothing against no boogers y’know, every now and then, you know, it’s…
[FZ] Yes, just listen to George all you boogers in the audience. This is George’s plea.
[George Duke] But see, you, what you have to remember is that uh… in the final analysis, a booger to one is not a booger to all, heh heh. Ain’t that right? AIN’T THAT RIGHT?
[FZ] THAT’S RIGHT!
[George Duke] AIN’T THAT RIGHT? PLEASE get down, Ruth.
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] As Chester would say: “A booger is in the eye of the beholder
[George Duke] Sure is

11. Carolina hard core ecstasy


I coulda swore her hair was made of rayon
She wore a Milton Bradley crayon
But she was something I could lay on
Can’t remember what became of me
Carolina hard-core ecstasy
 
She put a Doobie Brothers tape on
Ooh-ooh-ooh, listen to the music
I had a Roger Daltrey cape on
Ooh-ooh-ooh, a Roger Daltrey cape on
There was a bed I dumped her shape on
Can’t remember what became of me
Carolina hard-core ecstasy
 
Somewhat later on I woke up and she was gone
There was dew out on the lawn in the sunrise
Later she came back with a rumpled paper sack
Which she told me would contain a surprise
 
She stuck her hand right in it to the bottom
Said she knew I’d be surprised she got ‘em
Take a Charleston pimp to spot ‘em
Then she gave a pair of shoes to me
Plastic leather, 14 triple D
 
I said: “I wonder what’s the shoes for”
She told me: “Don’t you worry no more”
And got right down there on the tile floor
“Now, darling, stomp all over me”
Carolina hard-core ecstasy
 
“Is this something new having people stomp on you?
Is it what I need to do
For your pleasure?
(And other things)”
 
“What is this, a quiz?
Don’t you worry what it is
It is merely just a moment I can treasure
You know”
 
By ten o’clock her arms and legs were rendered
She couldn’t talk ‘cause her mouth had been extendered
Looked to me as though she had been blendered
But was this abject misery? No! No!
Carolina hard-core ecstasy
Well…
 
[Instrumental]
 
But was this abject misery? No! No!
Carolina hard-core ecstasy
 
It might seem strange to Herb and Dee
Carolina hard-core ecstasy

12. Are you upset?


Ah-ah-hah yeah!
 
POO-AHH!
 
[Instrumental]
 
[Guy in the audience] STOP THAT!
[FZ] Ssh ssh
[?] Heavy business, man
[FZ] Are you upset? Say it again.
[Guy in the audience] FUCK YOU!
[FZ] What?
[Guy in the audience] YOU’RE FUCKED!
[FZ] I’m fucked?
That’s the nicest thing anybody’s said to me all day

13. Little girl of mine


Oh little girl of mine
Gee, but you sure look fine
Yes, you appeal to me
I’ll never set you free
‘Cause you’re my loving baby
You belong to me
That’s the way it was meant to be, oh!
 
Oh little girl, stay cool
That’s all I ask of you
Be mine and mine alone
Call me on the telephone
‘Cause you’re my loving baby
You belong to me
That’s the way it was meant to be, oh!
 
Oh baby, now I know
I love you so
I’ll never, never let you go
I need your love, oh, so much
I thrill to your touch
 
Oh little girl, stay cool
That’s all I ask of you
Be mine and mine alone
Call me on the telephone
Be my lovin’ baby till the end of time
I can’t seem to get you off my mind
Oh, baby, oh, sugar, oh, darling
Oh, lover, oh, baby, oh, sugar

14. The closer you are


The closer you are
Yes, ma’m
The brighter the stars in the sky
(No, we’ll do it straight)
And, darling, I realize
That you’re The One in my life
(It’s gonna be hard though)
Oh oh
 
My heart skips a beat
(See what I mean?)
Every time you and I meet
My life, my love, my dear, I can’t defeat
This yearning deep in my heart
To have only you
 
When I first saw you
I did adore you
And all your loving ways
Your loving ways
But then you went away
But now you’re back to stay, hey hey
And my love for you grows stronger every DAY-AHHH WAY-AHHH OOH
 
The closer you are
The brighter the flames in my heart
And, darling, we’ll never part
We’ll always be in love
We’ll always be in lust

15. Johnny darling


And she said: “Johnny darlin’
Wah-ah-ah hoo-oo
Don’t ever go-oh yea-heah”
Ah-ha-ha-haaa
 
And she said: “Johnny darlin’
Wah-ah-ah hoo-oo
Don’t ever go-oh yea-heah”
Ah-ha-ha-haaa
 
And she said: “Johnny darlin’
Johnny darling
Don’t ever go-o-o-oooo”
Oo-oo-oo-oooooooooo

16. No, no cherry


[FZ] Well, I found out, baby, you told me a great big lie
Well, I found out, baby, you told me a great big lie
‘Cause when I got inside you didn’t have no cherry pie
 
Well, you had no, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
You had no, no cherry
No, no cherry pie
 
Well, you had me fakin’, baby, made me lose my pride
Well, you had me fakin’, baby, made me lose my pride
‘Cause I caught you lying ‘bout what you had inside
 
And you had no, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
No, no cherry
You had no, no cherry
No, no cherry pie
 
No, no
No, no
No, no
No, no
Cherry
Cherry
Pie-ie-ie-ie

17. The man from Utopia


[FZ] Well, this is the story of a man who lived in Pistoia
This is the story of a man who lived in Pistoia
He was a funny little fella with feet just like I showed ya
 
Well, he had a girl, and Tony got it for him
Well, he had a girl, but Sanavio says he got it
He did everything for him that she could do
 
But still (still) still (still) still he locked her in the bathroom
But still (still) still (still) still he locked her in the bathroom
Then he took her to Milan and locked her in the hotel too
 
Oh, Mary Lou
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
Oh, child, you big fool
Big fool, big fool
Ahh, Mary Lou
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
Oh, child, you big fool
Big fool, big fool
You did everything for him that you could do
Mary Lou, Mary Lou

18. Mary Lou


[FZ] I’m gonna tell you a story about Mary Lou
I mean the kind of a girl who make a fool of you
She’d make a young man groan and a poor man pain
The way she took my money was a cryin’ shame
 
Mary Lou
She took my watch and chain
Mary Lou
She took my diamond ring
Mary Lou
She took my Cadillac car
Jumped in my kitty and then drove to Milan / afar
 
Well, she picked up from Georgia, moved to Kalamazoo
Made her a fortune outta fools like you
Met her a rich man who was married and had two kids
She stoked that cat until he flipped his lid
 
Mary Lou
She took my watch and chain
Mary Lou
She took my diamond ring
Mary Lou
She took my Cadillac car
Jumped in my kitty and then drove afar
 
Well, she came back to town about a week ago
Told me she was sorry she had hurt me so
I had a ‘55 Ford and a two dollar bill
The way she took that man she gave me a chill
 
Mary Lou
She took my watch and chain
Mary Lou
She took my diamond ring
Mary Lou
She took my Cadillac car
Jumped in my kitty and then drove afar
 
Mary Lou
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
And Bernardo too
Big fool, big fool
Ahh, Mary Lou
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
Oh, child, you big fool
Big fool, big fool
You did everything for him that you could do
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
You did everything for him that you could do
Mary Lou, Mary Lou
You did everything for him that you could do
 
[FZ] Awright, thank you for coming to the show, good night


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