Mark (lead vocals) Howard (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) dunbar (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
Billy the Billy the A picturesque Postcardy between lovely Rosamond and With his stunning ethel A tree, a tree.
was a mountain Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder was a mountain Billy was a Ethel was a growing off of his shoulder Ethel was a tree growing off of his ( hey, hey, hey! ) had two big Caves for With a for a jaw would go up or down And it did He'd out some dust And up a boulder, hack. up a boulder, hack, hack. up a boulder, hack, hack. up a boulder.
Now, one day, and I believe it was on tuesday, a man in checkered double-knit suit drove up in large el dorado cadillac from bob spreene ( "where the freeways meet in downey!" ) He laid a bulging envelope right at the corner of billy the mountain, that was right 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 royalty 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 of dust puffed out ... rocks and boulders hacked up, hack! hack! ... c Ng the ...
I him the money He acted real He up a rock and It my car Oh do you any trucks Might be for the valley I wanna stand here All in this bar ( dear ) I don't stand here All night in bar ( no ) I don't wanna here All in this bar
By two o'clock, when had already closed down, billy 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, where going to new york! "ethel, we're going to... new york! but first they were gonna stop in las vegas...
"it's off to las to check out the lounges, Pull a few and drink a few beers, oh ethel, Ethel, my darling, you know that I you, I'm we could have a vacation this year, Oh neat-o, glad we could have a this year."
They that night, crunchin' across the mojave 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! ... eat some 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 stand number one and the rocket sled itself got lunched, I said lunched, by a famous mountain and his small wife ...
"word just in to the kttv news service undeniably links this mountain and his wife to drug abuse and payoffs as part of san joaquin 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 ... sunland ... san fernando ... . Lmar ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... hills ... granada hills ... shadow hills ... cheviot hills ... will provide the secret evidence the palmdale Jury has needed to 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 a telethon ( la la la nice lady ) to raise funds for the injured, "injured", and homeless, "homeless" in glendale, as billy had just l Ed it. and a few miles right outside of town billy caused a 'oh mine/my(? ) papa' in the earth's crust, right the secret underground dumps, right near the jack in the box on glenoaks where t Eep the pools of old gas and obsolete germs bombs, just as a freak tornado cruised through ... yes, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon when little howard kaplan was sitting on hi Ch ( "toto...!") just playing ( "come here, toto ...!") and a nice time with his little accordion, ("toto...!") and this weird wind came up, direct from glen Blowing those terrible germs in his ... and all this caused by huge mountain ("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, ohio when billy received his notice to report for his induction physical. now lemme tell ya, ethel said, now ethel, ethel 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 this 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 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 current economic slump. now, some folks say he looked zubin meh Ubin mehta); still others say "bullshit, honey, it was just another greasy guy who happened to be born next to the frozen pies at boney's market..."; still others say "pshaw/ (? ), and piss on you, jack, just a crazy iatlian who drove a red car ..." you see, nobody ever really knew for sure because studebacher was sooooo mysterious ....
He was so ( he was so, he was so) He was so ( he was so, he was so) ''cause when a person gets to be such a hero, And marvelouse beyond You can never really about a guy like that Whether he's a nice person Or if he just a lot Or if he has a son pinocchio or what. Whether he's a nice person Or if he has a son named or what. men say he could fly Some men say he could Others say he could sing neil sedaka, And all the girls in flushing be amazed of him Two, amazed of him ... amazed ...
Time passed. january, february, march, july, wednesdey, august, irwindale, two-thirty in the afternoon, sunday, monday, cars, walnuts, city of industry, big john masamanian ... so when the E ring in the secret briefcase, a strong masculine hand with a do-right wristwatch and flexy braclet grabbed it and answered in a deep, calmly assured voice: "so... ah... yeah, yeah Already ... what? ... well, ... ah-are you kidding? ... you're 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 those 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 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 this down... sorta take a few notes here... ...to el segundo, ...causing
Untold destruction..( my baby, my baby )...wanted for draft evasion? ... an expense ... and per diem, too? ..."
Some men say he could They said he could And of course they right ...
Ladies and gentelmen, this is it: the studebacher hoch dancing lesson & cosmic prayer for guidence, featuring dunbar! ... hit it! ... Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, ... Hey, right hand 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 this rumor which was published about three weeks ago in rolling stone ( oh, it's gotta be true! ) ... studebacher hoch can th D's prayer on the head of a pin!" (no!) do-do-do do-do-doot doot do-do-do ... ... I'm so hip ... beef pies ... he was next to the beef pies, underneath joni mitchell's autographed pict Right beside elliot 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 slipped another ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And that was the influence on him The influence of a frozen pie ]
Boldly springing into action he phoned his wife who ran a modeling school, whereupon he... yes, he ran around the back of the broadway at hollywood boulevard and 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 aunt jemima syrup, some kaiser 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 of customized trucks where nobody was looking, he cut out some Y, really, really nice wings and he them thoroughly with foil ...
Then he took those wings and wedged one under each of his powerful arms and sneaked into a telephone ..yes,yes!! and then he shut the fucking door! ... and he pulled down his blue denim po An-type trouser pants, and he spread even of aunt jemima maple syrup all over the inside of his legs! ... soon the booth was filling with flies ( help me! help me! help 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, voice: "new york"... and the booth and everything lifted up, out of parking lot, and i He sky.
hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher hoch Studebacher Yeah, yeah, hoch Studebacher coating his legs With aunt syrup up and down His shorts will be filled flies That will be buzzing all Studebacher hoch is really sight 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 lady Or he play dirty He's thirty old ... I know His peculiar And the flies he leading him on ''cause is gone keep leading him on ''cause ethel is And the mountain on
And speaking of mountains - - join 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 go on running like this f R ..."
Ah, but ethel just shook her twigs angrily. but hoch, calm, cool, collected and unperturbed, continued:
"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 in some impending ne Sey marsh reclamation ... and girlfiend there will wind up disguised as series of brooms, primative ironing boards or a dog house ... get the ( cough, cough) get the picture? "
Ya, billy just laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if they think they're draft me, they're crazy."
Unfortunately, because studebacher hoch was standing on the edge of billy the mountain's mouth when the giant mountain laughed ... studebacher hoch lost his footing and screaming, two hundr Et into the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna need a ...")
Ah listen, that only goes to you And show you once again that A mountain is something you wanna fuck with You don't wanna fuck Don't around fuck around Don't with billy, no And fuck with ethel You saw what just To the guy the flies
Don't around Don't around Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't around Don't fuck Don't around With biddilly, the mountain
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to mention this is we take our intermission. We see you in a few minutes Thank you, be back.