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

Linked material:

Beat the boots I - Freaks & Motherfuckers

 

  1 Happy together [Alan Gordon, Garry Bonner]
  2 Wino man - with Dr. John routine {Wonderful wino} [Frank Zappa, Jeff Simmons]
  3 Concentration moon
  4 Pallidan routine {Adventures of Paladin and Hey Boy} [Mark Volman, Jeff Simmons, Howard Kaylan]
  5 Call any vegetable {+ Invocation and ritual dance of the young pumpkin + Soft-sell conclusion}
  6 Little house I used to live in
  7 Mudshark variations
  8 Holiday in Berlin
  9 Sleeping in a jar {+ Inca Roads vamp + Easy meat}
10 Cruising for burgers

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa, except as noted above.


1. Happy together


[Howard Kaylan] OK, baby, bend over and spread ‘em! Here comes my bullet!
 
Imagine me and you
I do
I think about you day and night
It’s only right
To think about the girl you love
And hold her tight
So happy together!
 
If I should call you up
Invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
And ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be
So very fine
So happy together!
 
I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you for all my life!
When you’re with me, baby, the skies will be blue for all my life!
Everybody sing along just like a big rock show!
 
Pa pa pa pa
Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
Pa pa pa pa
Pa pa pa pa
Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
Pa pa pa pa

2. Wino man - with Dr. John routine {Wonderful wino}


Bringing in the sheaves

Bringing in the sheaves

We will come rejoicing

Bringing in the sheaves

 
L.A. in the summer of ‘69
I went downtown and bought some wine
I wasted my head on three quarts o’ juice
And now the grapes won’t turn me loose
I’m a wino man
Don’t you know I am?
 
36, 24, hips about 30
36, 24, hips about 30
I seen some witch and I started talkin’ dirty
Seen a fine lady and I started talkin’ dirty
She looked at me and raised her thumb
Thumb yea-eah
And said: “Jam down the road, you funky-ass bum”
‘Cause I’m a wino man
Know I am?
 
I… I went to the country
And while I was gone
A roller-headed lady
Caught me weedlin’ on her lawn
I’m so ashamed, but I’m a wino man
I can’t help myself
 
Oh yeah!
 
[Instrumental]
 
Wino man
Don’t you know I am?
 
Well, my drug indulgence
And my wino career are in a slump
‘Cause I find myself now living
In a cardboard refrigerator box down by the Houston dump
And I’m so ashamed
 
I been drinkin’ all night and my eyes are all red
Why, my […], I don’t know which way to go
Give me five bucks and a hot meal
Give me fi-i-i-i-ive bucks and a hot meal
Fi-i-i-i-i-ive bucks and a hot meal
I tell you everytime I get a chance, oh yeah
 
I wondered what it would sound like if Dr. John the Night Tripper sang this song
 

Gris-gris gumbo ya ya

Should be “gris-gris gumbo, wino”

Heya dadadaah

Come on

Gris-gris gumbo ya ya

Heya dadadaah

 

They call me Dr. John

Gris-gris gumbo ya ya

I’m known as the Night Tripper

Got my satchel of gris-gris in my hand

We take all the stamped-out hippies way down the bayou

Gris-gris gumbo ya ya

I’m the last of the best, known as the gris-gris man

AND MY WOMEN SAY:

Gris-gris gumbo ya ya

“AM I, BABY, COOKIN’?”

And I don’t need no Fender amplifier

Gris-gris gumbo ya ya

 

Come on

Everybody sing along, come on

Gris-gris gumbo ya ya

Well, gris-gris

The Doctor’s on get down sometime

Gris-gris gumbo ya ya

The preceding was paid for

 
Shuck, shuck, shuck shuck
 
[Instrumental]

3. Concentration moon


Concentration moon, over the camp in the valley
Long Island
Concentration moon, wish I was back in the alley
All of my friends still running free
Hair growing out every hole in me
 
American way, how did it start?
Thousands of creeps killed in the park
American way, try and explain
Scab of a nation driven insane
 
Don’t cry
Got to go, bye-bye
Suddenly die, die
COP, KILL A CREEP!
POW POW POW

4. Pallidan routine {Adventures of Paladin and Hey Boy}


[Narrator] As we join Paladin and his good friend Hey Boy in a plush San Francisco hotel, we find Hey Boy running down the stairs to greet his good companion friend Paladin and saying…
[Hey Boy] Paladin what you want? Pineapple chicken? Almond duck? BBQ pork? Sesame seed pork? Almond nut ROLL? Toyota Land Cruiser, Panasonic, Sony? What you want? Paladin, you old sack.
[Paladin] No, Paladin… Pala no, Hey Boy. No, Hey Boy.
[Hey Boy] You drunk, Paladin
[Paladin] No, Hey Boy, you little queen. Just book a room here in this plush San Francisco bistro for me and my… sister.
[Hey Boy] Paladin commit incest!
[Paladin] Don’t put words in my mouth, Hey Boy. AND IF ANYBODY ASKS WHERE I AM, tell them this…
[Hey Boy] Oh, Paladin. You gesture hypnotically.

[Narrator] And Paladin does gesture hypnotically as he reaches into the par the pocket of his pants and pulls forth the card of lust, danger, romance and adventure.
 
Hant hant
Hant hant
Hant hant
Hant hant
Hant hant hant
Hant hant hant
Hoooooooooooo

5. Call any vegetable {+ Invocation and ritual dance of the young pumpkin + Soft-sell conclusion}


(This is a song about vegetables… they keep you regular; they’re real good for ya)
 
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
Call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Hey hey
The vegetable will respond to you
Oo-oo la-la-la-laaa
The vegetable will respond to you
Oo-oo la-la-la-laaa
 
Call any vegetable
Pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable
Lonely at home
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Hey hey
The vegetable will respond to you
Oo-oo la-la-la-laaa
The vegetable will respond to you
Oo-oo la-la-la-laaa
 
RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
 
No one will know if you don’t want to let ‘em know
No one will know ‘less it’s you that might tell ‘em so
Call and they’ll come to you smilin’ and covered with dew
Vegetables dream, vegetables dream, vegetables dream of responding to you
Standing there shiny & proud by your side
Holding your joint while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide?
To hide!
To hide!
To hide!
 
[Instrumental]
 
Shoo-shoo shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo shoo-shoo
 
You know, a lotsa people don’t bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. They think: “What can I say? What can a person such as myself say unto a vegetable?” Let’s think of some of the things that you could say to a vegetable. The first thing that comes to my mind is: “I’ve got a picture of you on my bathroom wall sitting on the toilet”.

 From “International Times” on August 31, 1967

Another thing that you might be able to say, would be:

What’s a girl like you doin’ in a place like this? Do you like my new car? It’s real cool! Which Holiday Inn are you staying at? The one by the airport? We got to get up real early in the morning and fly out of here. Where you playing tomorrow? Tierra del Fuego.

Or you could say…
Muffins
Yeahhhh!
Pumpkins
Yeahhhh!
Wax paper
Yeahhhh!
Caledonias, mahoganies and elbows and green things in general

And soon: a new rapport! You and all your new little green & yellow buddies grooving together! Maintaining your coolness together! Worshipping together in the church of your choice!
Only in America!

God bless America

SIEG HEIL, SIEG HEIL, SIEG

Land that I…

 
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Oh, that the vegetable will respond to you
 
Oh God, oh God, oh God, we’re coming together!
What a pumpkin
 
Rance

6. Little house I used to live in


[FZ] We’re gonna begin with a song from “Burnt Weeny Sandwich”, which has the operating stage title of “The duke” but encompasses items from side one and side two of “Burnt Weeny Sandwich”.
 
Ready?
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

7. Mudshark variations


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
 
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

8. Holiday in Berlin


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]

9. Sleeping in a jar {+ Inca Roads vamp + Easy meat}


[Instrumental]

10. 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!
 
Thank you


English lyrics from site Information Is Not Knowledge.