(Front) Art by Larry Grossman (CD inside)

Live throughout 1988 World Tour

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Make a jazz noise here

 

Disc 1
  1 Stinkfoot
  2 When yuppies go to hell
  3 Fire and chains {A pound for a brown}
  4 Let’s make the water turn black
  5 Harry, you’re a beast
  6 The Orange County lumber truck
  7 Oh no
  8 Theme from Lumpy Gravy {Duodenum}
  9 Eat that question
10 Black napkins
11 Big Swifty
12 King Kong
13 Star wars won’t work

 

Disc 2
  1 The black page (New age version)
  2 T’Mershi Duween
  3 Dupree’s paradise
  4 City of tiny lights
  5 Royal march from “L’histoire du soldat” [Igor Stravinsky]
  6 Theme from the Bartok Piano Concerto #3 [Béla Bartók]
  7 Sinister footwear 2nd mvt.
  8 Stevie’s spanking
  9 Alien orifice
10 Cruisin’ for burgers
11 Advance romance
12 Strictly genteel

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa, except as noted above.


Album notes by FZ
ALL MATERIAL HEREIN IS 100% LIVE AND THERE ARE NO OVERDUBS OF ANY KIND.

Disc 1

1. Stinkfoot


[FZ] OK, thank you, thank you, thank you! Alright, alright, alright! Sit down, sit down, sit down! OK. Alright, let’s get down to business, just wanna let you know, in case you… you’d be blind not to notice this, but we are registering people to vote here. Think we did four hundred last night, and hope to exceed that this evening. But meanwhile, did everybody hear the great news today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation!
Oh, JAY-ZUS! One day every one of those cock-suckers’ll get caught!
Now, I understand in the case of Mr. Swaggart that he claims that it was not multiple encounters with many prostitutes. Apparently only one sweet young thing, and he did tell Cal Thomas of the Moral Majority that the sex act itself was not fully consummated. However he did admit to doing something pornographic with the girl. Let’s use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen.
 
In the dark, where all the fevers grow
Under the water, where the shark bubbles blow
In the mornin’, by yer radio
Do the walls close in t’suffocate ya?
You ain’t got no friends… an’ all the others: they hate ya
Does the life you’ve been leadin’ gotta go?
 
Well, lemme straighten you out about a place I know…
(Now get yer shoes an’ socks on, people, because it’s right aroun’ the corner)
 
You go out through the night an’ the whispering breezes
To the place where they keep the imaginary diseases
Out through the night an’ the whispering breezes
To the place where they keep the imaginary diseases
 
Now, scientists call this miserable little disease… podobromhidrosis
And, well, they should

But us regular folks, who might wear a tennis shoe or an occasional python boot , know this exquisite little inconvenience by the name of… STINK FOOT
(That’s right!)
 
Y’know, my python boot was too tight
Couldn’t get it off last night
Week went by, now it’s July
I finally got it off an’ my girlfriend cry:
“You’ve got STINK FOOT!
Stink foot, darlin’
Your stinkin’ foot puts the hurts on my nose!
Stink foot! Stink foot! I ain’t lyin’
Can you rinse it off, do you suppose?”
 

Well, here Fido! Here Fido!
Bring the slippers, little puppy
Yes, that’s a good dog
Bring them over to Jimmy Swaggart
(That’s right!)
He’ll do anything for a good time
Sick!
 
[Instrumental]
 
[FZ] Well, Ike Willis, ladies and gentlemen, Mike Keneally, Walt Fowler, Bruce Fowler, Paul Carman, Albert Wing, Kurt McGettrick, Chad Wackerman. Now this is a special case, ladies and gentlemen (get that spotlight over here) this is Ed Mann. Now, Ed had a tragic experience a few moments ago. One of the loyal fans in the audience came up and treated him like a war criminal because he fucked up the lick on “Dickie’s such an asshole” way back when, who knows, several weeks ago. But the people who come to these shows listen so carefully to every little detail that this man was deeply offended by Ed’s performance. So to make sure that he gets his money’s worth tonight, we’re gonna dwell on it for a few moments now, and have Ed actually practice, kinda warm up for that big lick that happens in “Dickie’s such an asshole”. We’re gonna rehearse it right now, ready? Just do it as a solo, here we go…
 
Or…
[Ed Mann] Or the way we did it that night, which of course was completely wrong. This is how it went…
 
[FZ] Or…

2. When yuppies go to hell


[Instrumental]
 
[FZ] Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell!
Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell!
Goin’ to hell!
Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell!
Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell!
Goin’ to hell!
 
[Instrumental]
 
Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell!
 
[Instrumental]
 
Goin’ to hell! Goin’ to hell!
No, I’m not
Goin’ to hell!
No, I’m not
Goin’ to hell!
No, I’m not
Goin’ to hell!
No, I’m not

There ain’t no such place as hell!
So I sure can’t go there
Jay-zus! Jay-zus! Jay-zus!
If you believe in that place
Jay-zus!
Goin’ to hell!
Jay-zus!
Goin’ to hell!
I don’t believe in hell
There just ain’t no place like hell
Eww, that’s really gross!

3. Fire and chains {A pound for a brown}


Woaaaaaa-aaaaaah!
SATAN?
 
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains
 
Fire and chains and fire and chains
Fire and chains and fire and chains
 
[Senator Hollings] So, I’ll be looking from this Senator’s standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.
 
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star
 
Outrageous filth
Outrageous filth
Oh, outrageous filth down there
 
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains
 
Fire and chains
Fire an’ chains, it’s over there
 
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and fire and chains and fire and chains and fire and chains and fire and chains and fire and chains
 
[Instrumental]

4. Let’s make the water turn black


[Instrumental]

5. Harry, you’re a beast


[Instrumental]

6. The Orange County lumber truck


[Instrumental]

7. Oh no


[Ike Willis] Oh no, I don’t believe it
You say that you think you know the meaning of love

You say love is all we need
You say with your love you can change all of the hate
All of the fools
I think you’re probably out to lunch
 
Oh no, I don’t believe it
You say that you think you know the meaning of love
Do you really think it can be told?
You say that you really know
I think you should check it again, how can you say
What you believe
Will be the key to a world of love?
 
All your love
Will it save me?
All your love

Will it save the world
From what you can’t understand?
 
Oh no, I don’t believe it
 
[Instrumental]

8. Theme from Lumpy Gravy {Duodenum}


[FZ] May you never hear “vloerbedekking” again!
 
[Instrumental]

9. Eat that question


[Instrumental]

10. Black napkins


[Instrumental]

11. Big Swifty


[Instrumental]
 
Aye… aye… aye…
Everybody!
Aye…
Make a jazz noise here!
Aye…
 
Go, man, wild!
Yeah yeah! Yeah man yeah!
 
Aye…
Yeah yeah yeah!
 
[Instrumental]
 
Aye… aye…
Wild, man, yeah!
 
[Instrumental]
 
Aye…
Man, wild
 
Go, man, wild
 
Ay ay ay ay ahh…
Oh yeah!
 
[Instrumental]
 
Aye…
Thank you very much! Good night!
 
[Instrumental]

12. King Kong


[Instrumental]
 
[Bruce Fowler] You know… You know that reminds me of a real sad story. It happened right here in lovely Cleveland a long long time ago, ‘bout… ‘bout three hundred and thirty million years ago in fact, in the Upper Devonian. There was a really nice intellectual kind of a placoderm type of a fish, and he was… he was real creative, and he was a-just having lot of fun living… living his life gently along here in the Upper Devonian peninsula you’ve got here, and suddenly, out of nowhere, came a band of religious fanatic sharks. And they organized themselves in crazy, fiendish groups, and just ate everything, leaving nothing for this talented creative placoderm type fish. And, it just brings tears to my eyes that you may let this happen again, in 1988. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT! IT’S DRIVING ME WILD! I CAN’T HARDLY STAND IT NO MORE! I MIGHT HAVE TO PLAY AN OUT-OF-TUNE NOTE OR SOMETHING! I JUST CAN’T STAND IT ANYMORE! OH GOD! OH GOD! OH GOD! OH GOD!
 
[Senator Hawkins] Pyromania
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
[Senator Hawkins] No question
[?] Thank you so much
[Senator Hawkins] Burn the building
[FZ] You’re goin’ to hell!
[Senator Hawkins] Burn burn burn
[FZ] You’re goin’ to hell!
[?] Hey, I’ve been there!
[FZ] You’re goin’ to hell!
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know
[Senator Hawkins] Tools of gratification in some twisted… tools of… tools of… tools of…
 
[Instrumental]
 
[Ike Willis] Not that! Not the lizard!
 
[FZ] Coming soon to an airport near you!
 
[Instrumental]

13. Star wars won’t work


[FZ] Star wars won’t work
Star wars won’t work
Star wars won’t work
Star wars won’t work
 
[Instrumental]
 
[FZ] Star wars won’t work
Star wars won’t work
The gas still gets through
It can get right on you
And what about those germs now
Star wars won’t work
It’s a piece of shit
Why are they even talkin’ about it anymore?
It’s just an expensive bunch of nothing

Disc 2

1. The black page (New age version)


[Instrumental]

2. T’Mershi Duween


[Ike Willis] Ron
Ron
Ron
Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron
I’ve been such a good boy
I’ve been such a good boy
I’ve been such a good boy
 
Hey!
 
[Instrumental]

3. Dupree’s paradise


[Instrumental]

4. City of tiny lights


City of tiny lites
Don’t you wanna go?
Hear those tiny auto horns
When they tiny blow
 
Tiny lightnin’
In the storm
Tiny, tiny, tiny blankets
Gonna keep you warm
Tiny, tiny, tiny pillows
Tiny, tiny sheets
Talkin’ ‘bout the tiny cookies
That the peoples eat
 
City of tiny lites
Maybe you should know
That it’s over there
In the tiny dirt somewhere
 
You can see it any time
When you get the squints
From your downers and your wine
[FZ] You’re so big
It’s so tiny
Every cloud is silver line-y
The great escape for all of you
 
Tiny is as tiny do
Tiny is as tiny do
Tiny is as tiny do
Tiny is as tiny do
 
[Instrumental]
 
City of tiny lites
Don’t you wanna go?
Hear those tiny auto horns
When they tiny blow
 
Tiny lightnin’
In the storm
Tiny, tiny, tiny blankets
Gonna keep you warm
Tiny, tiny pillows
Tiny, tiny sheets
Talkin’ ‘bout the tiny cookies
That the peoples eat
 
City of tiny lites
Maybe you shoulda know
That it’s over there
Over there
Over there
Over there

5. Royal march from “L’histoire du soldat”


[Instrumental]

6. Theme from the Bartok Piano Concerto #3


[Instrumental]

7. Sinister footwear 2nd mvt.


[Instrumental]

8. 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
And 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!
(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]

9. Alien orifice


[Instrumental]

10. Cruisin’ for burgers


[Ike Willis] I must be free
My fake I.D.
Freeeeeees me
 
[FZ] Gotta do a few things to make my life complete
(Sure you do!)
Gotta live my life (Where?) under the seat
 
[Ike Willis] 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!
 
[Instrumental]

11. Advance romance


No more credit from the liquor store
Suit is all dirty, my shoes is all wore
Tired and lonely, my heart is all sore
Advance romance
I can’t stand it no more, no more
 
She told me she loved me, I believed what she said
Took me for a sucker, boy, all corn-fed

Next thing I knew she had a bolt on the door
Advance romance
Ha ha ha ha!
I can’t use it no more, no
Oh no, holy shit!
Yeah
Ha ha ha!
 

They took Ike’s watch like they always do
It was a Timex, too!
WAH-HOO WAH-HOO
And a shame on you
No more money, boy
I shoulda knew
You should have know, you see the Tipper Gore discharge?
When I saw that thing come up there I should have know right then
It was… Holy shit!
George Duke!
The way she do me, boy
She might do you too
Yeah, ‘fraid so, I mean
Really?
The way she do me, boy
Well… he’s been havin’ trouble goin’ to the mound, I don’t know
She might do you too
Don’t think we need any more spread hitters, you know
Take me!
He’s a-sprayin’ into left field
The way she do me, boy
Oh… oh yeah!
She might do you too
Oh, he’s… gonna spray one into left field right about now, I don’t know uh… well uh…
 
[Instrumental]
 
Advance romance
Oh yeah!
People I am through
Yes, I’m through
 

Potato-Head Bobby was a friend of mine
He open three of his eyes in the food stamp line
He open four of his eyes in the food stamp line
He open five of his eyes in the food stamp line
He open six of his eyes in the food stamp line
He said she might be a dancer
Well, but she sure was fine
Advance romance
Oh yeah well
He wanna try it one time
At least for one time
 
Later that night they drop on by
Tell her all he wanna do is come up and say “Hi”
HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI
Half an hour later she had frenched his fry
YODELOO YODELOO YODELOO YODEL
FRENCHED HIS FRY
Advance romance
Bobby, say goodbye-yay-yay-yay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ahh

12. Strictly genteel


[Instrumental]
 
[FZ] Ike Willis, Mike Keneally, Walt Fowler, Bruce Fowler, Paul Carman, Albert Wing, Kurt McGettrick, Chad Wackerman, Ed Mann, Robert Martin, Scott Thunes. Thanks for coming to the show. Good night!





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