Mark (lead vocals) kaylan (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) dunbar (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
the mountain Billy the A picturesque Postcardy Residing lovely and gorman With his wife ethel A tree, a tree.
was a mountain Ethel was a growing off of his shoulder Billy was a was a mountain Ethel was a tree growing off of his Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder ( hey, hey, hey! ) had two big Caves for With a for a jaw That would go up or And it did He'd puff out some And up a boulder, hack. up a boulder, hack, hack. up a boulder, hack, hack. up a boulder.
Now, one day, and I it was on tuesday, a man in checkered double-knit suit drove up in large el dorado cadillac leased from bob spreene ( "where the freeways meet in downey!" ) He laid a huge bulging envelope right at the corner of billy the mountain, that was where his foot was supposed to be. now billy the mountain, he couldn't believe it: all those postcards h Osed for, for all of those years, and finally, now at last, his royalties! "royalties, royalties, royalties! the check is in, honey!" ... yes, billy the mountain was rich! yes, His eyeball caves, they widened in amazement... and his jaw, which was a cliff, well it ... it dropped thirty feet! a bunch of puffed out ... rocks and boulders hacked up, hack! hack! ... c Ng the ...
I him the money He real funny He hacked up a and It my car Oh do you Know any Might be for the valley I don't stand here All in this bar ( lord ) I don't stand here All night in bar ( no ) I don't stand here All in this bar
By two o'clock, when bars had already closed down, had broken the big news to ethel, ahhhh, and with dust and boulders everywhere, billy, choked with exitement, announced: "ethel, we' Ing on a vacation!"... yes, and they were going on a vacation, oh, and ethel, ethel, ethel, like any little woman, she of course was very excited ... she a little bit, and some old Flew off of her. billy told ethel they were going to... yes, they where to new york! "ethel, we're going to... new york! but first they were gonna stop in las vegas...
"it's off to las vegas to out the lounges, a few handles and drink a few beers, oh ethel, Ethel, my darling, you know I love you, I'm glad we have a vacation this year, Oh neat-o, glad we could have a this year."
They left that night, crunchin' across the desert, their voices echoing thru the canyons of your minds... "ethel, wanna get a cuppa cawfee? howard johnson's, ahhh there's a howard jo 's! ... wanna eat clams? ...
The first noteworhty piece of real estate they destroyed was edwards air force base. and to this very day, wing-nuts and data reduction clerks alike speak in reverent whispers about fateful T when test number one and the rocket sled itself got lunched, I said lunched, by a famous mountain and his small wooden wife ...
"word just in to the kttv news service undeniably links this mountain and his wife to drug and payoffs as part of san joaquin valley smut ring. however, we can assure parents in the s Rn california area that a recent narcotic crackdown in torrence ... hawthorne ... lomita ... westchester ... playa del rey ... santa monica ... tujunga ... ... san fernando ... pacoima . Lmar ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... rolling hills ... granada hills ... shadow hills ... cheviot hills ... will provide the secret the palmdale has needed to seek a criminal indictement and pave the way for stiffer legislation, increased federal aid, and avert a crippling strike of bartenders and veterinarians throughout the inlan Ire ..."
Within the week, jerry lewis had hosted a telethon ( la la la nice lady ) to funds for the injured, "injured", and homeless, "homeless" in glendale, as billy had just l Ed it. and a few miles outside of town billy caused a 'oh mine/my(? ) papa' in the earth's crust, right over the secret underground dumps, right near the jack in the box on glenoaks where t Eep the pools of old poison gas and obsolete germs bombs, just as a freak tornado cruised through ... yes, it was about o'clock in the afternoon when little howard kaplan was sitting on hi Ch ( "toto...!") just playing ( "come here, toto ...!") and having a nice time with his little accordion, ("toto...!") and this weird wind came up, direct from Blowing those terrible germs in his direction ... and all this caused by huge ("aunty em") somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly, sucking up two-thirds of it ( suck, suc Ck) for an ultimetly dispersal over vast of ... watts!!!
Now, unless I misunderstood, it was right outside of columbus, when billy received his notice to report for his induction physical. now lemme tell ya, ethel said, now ethel, ethel said she T gonna let him go ... "i'm not let you go, billy" ... that's right, we now have confirmed reports from an informed orange county minister that ethel is still an active communist It is this reporter's opinion that she also practices covent ...
It was about time that the telephone rang inside of the secret briefcase belonging to one mortal man who might be able to stop all of this senseless destruction and save america herself. an Sorry to disappoint some of you, it was not chief redden. this one man was studebacher hoch, fantastic new super hero of the economic slump. now, some folks say he looked like zubin meh Ubin mehta); still others say "bullshit, honey, it was just another greasy guy who happened to be born to the frozen beef pies at boney's market..."; still others say "pshaw/ (? ), and piss on you, jack, he's just a crazy iatlian who drove a red car ..." you see, nobody ever really knew for sure because was sooooo mysterious ....
He was so ( he was so, he was so) He was so ( he was so, he was so) when a person gets to be such a hero, folks And marvelouse beyond You can never really tell a guy like that Whether really a nice person Or if he just a lot Or if he has a son named or what. Whether really a nice person Or if he has a son named or what. men say he could fly Some men say he swim Others say he could like neil sedaka, And all the in flushing would be amazed of him Two, three of him ... amazed ...
passed. january, february, march, july, wednesdey, august, irwindale, two-thirty in the afternoon, sunday, monday, funny cars, walnuts, city of industry, big john masamanian ... so when the E ring in the secret briefcase, a strong masculine hand with a dudley do-right wristwatch and flexy braclet it and answered in a deep, calmly assured voice: "so... ah... yeah, yeah Already ... what? ... well, yeah? ... ah-are you kidding? ... not kidding ... a mountain ... with a tree growing off of it's shoulder? aw, you're fulla shit, man... ah listen, by the way, Re you go on; did you get white albums I sent ya with the pencil on the front, yeah? yeah, you should move some of those for me ... we're having a lot of,...listen, so kiss little jakee on Head... and how's your wife's hemorrhoids? ...ah, that's too bad...listen...so you've got a mountain, with a tree, listen, causing...well, let me write down... sorta take a few notes here... ...to el segundo, ...causing
Untold destruction..( my baby, my )...wanted for draft evasion? ... an expense account? ... and per diem, too? ..."
men say he could dance They said he dance And of course they right ...
Ladies and gentelmen, this is it: the studebacher hoch lesson & cosmic prayer for guidence, featuring aynsley dunbar! ... hit it! ... Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, ... Hey, hand from a heart Left hand from a Right hand a heart Left hand a left shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can dance like hoch ... So many rumors have spread about studebacher hoch ... consider rumor which was published about three weeks ago in rolling stone ( oh, it's gotta be true! ) ... studebacher hoch can write th D's prayer on the of a pin!" (no!) do-do-do do-do-doot doot do-do-do ... ... I'm so hip ... beef pies ... he was born next to the beef pies, underneath joni mitchell's autographed pict Right beside robert's big bank book, next to the boat where crosby flushed away all his stash and the cops got him in the boat and drove away, to the can where neil young slipped another ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And that was the main on him The influence of a beef pie ]
Boldly springing into action he phoned his wife who ran a modeling school, whereupon he... yes, he ran around the of the broadway at hollywood boulevard and vine to see if he could find him Some big, large, unused cardboard boxes ( no shit! )... after which he hit up the ralph's on sunset for some jemima syrup, some kaiser boiler foil and pair of blunt sissors, yeah! ... yes, N the parking lot of ralph's ... where no prices are lower prices than ralph's... in the parking lot of ralph's, in between a pair of customized trucks nobody was looking, he cut out some Y, really, nice wings and he covered them thoroughly with foil ...
Then he took those wings and wedged one under each of his powerful arms and sneaked into a telephone booth ..yes,yes!! and then he shut the fucking door! ... and he pulled down his denim po An-type trouser pants, and he spread even amounts of aunt jemima maple syrup all over the inside of his legs! ... soon the booth was filling with flies ( help me! help me! me! ) ... he held The legs of his boxer so they could all get in, and when each and every one of those little cocksucking flies had gone into his pants and they were lapping up all that maple syrup, he be Er and he put his head between his legs and he said in a very clear, impressive, ron-hubbard-type voice: "new york"... and the booth and lifted up, out of parking lot, and i He sky.
hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher hoch Studebacher Yeah, yeah, hoch Studebacher He's coating his aunt jemima syrup up and down His will be filled with flies will be buzzing all around Studebacher hoch is really outa Studebacher hoch, he does it every Studebacher hoch, he treats the flies all hoch That's why they bite, hey!
Hey please to new Fly to new
He be a dog Or a Or a lesbian (fly to new york) He could be a Or a marine Or he might play He's over old ... I don't His peculiar And the he requires leading him on ''cause is gone They leading him on ethel is gone And the she's on
And speaking of mountains - - we'll studebacher hoch on the edge of billy the mountain's mouth .. take it away! ...
"ah ... ya, ya, ya, hey-ah, billy, listen ... I've come to reason with you ... our great country needs you in the armed forces ... your number came up ... ya can't go on running like f R ..."
Ah, but ethel just shook her twigs angrily. but studebacher hoch, calm, cool, collected and unperturbed,
"ya, well listen ... listen you communist sonofabitch ... you better get your ass down there for your fuckin' physical or I'll see to it that you get used for fill dirt in some ne Sey marsh reclamation ... and your girlfiend there will up disguised as series of brooms, primative ironing boards or a dog house ... get the ( cough, cough) get the picture? "
Ya, well billy laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if think they're gonna draft me, they're crazy."
Unfortunately, because studebacher hoch was standing on the edge of billy the mountain's mouth when the giant mountain ... studebacher hoch lost his footing and fell screaming, two hundr Et into the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm need a truss ...")
Ah listen, that only goes to you And show you once again that A mountain is something you wanna fuck with You don't fuck with fuck around Don't fuck fuck with billy, no And fuck with ethel You saw what happened To the guy with the
Don't fuck Don't around Don't around Don't around fuck around Don't fuck Don't around biddilly, biddilly Biddilly the
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to this is where we take our intermission. We will see you in a few Thank you, be back.