Mark (lead vocals) kaylan (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) Aynsley (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
Billy the the mountain A picturesque mountain Residing between and gorman With his stunning wife A tree, a tree.
was a mountain Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder Billy was a Billy was a 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 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 huge 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 postcards h for, for all of those years, and finally, now at last, his royalties! "royalties, royalties, royalties! the royalty check is in, honey!" ... yes, billy the mountain was rich! yes, His eyeball caves, they widened in amazement... and his jaw, was a cliff, well it ... it dropped thirty feet! a bunch 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 Know any be bound for the valley I wanna stand here All night in bar ( lord ) I don't wanna stand All in this bar ( no ) I don't wanna here All night in 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 to... yes, they 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 I love you, I'm we could have a vacation this year, Oh neat-o, glad we could a vacation this year."
They left that night, crunchin' across the mojave desert, their voices echoing thru the canyons of your minds... "ethel, wanna get a cuppa howard johnson's, ahhh there's a howard jo 's! ... wanna eat some ...
The first noteworhty piece of real estate they was edwards air force base. and to this very day, wing-nuts and data reduction clerks alike speak in reverent whispers about that fateful T when test stand number one and the 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 and his wife to drug abuse 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 ... sunland ... san fernando ... . Lmar ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... rolling hills ... granada ... 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 ..."
the week, jerry lewis had hosted 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 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 three o'clock in the afternoon when little 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 glen Blowing those terrible germs in his direction ... and all this caused by huge mountain ("aunty em") somewhere over the rainbow, birds fly, sucking up two-thirds of it ( suck, suc Ck) for an dispersal over vast stretches of ... watts!!!
Now, unless I misunderstood, it was right outside of columbus, ohio when billy received his notice to report for his physical. now lemme tell ya, ethel said, now ethel, ethel said she T gonna let him go ... "i'm not gonna let you go, billy" ... that's right, we now have 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 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 hoch, fantastic new super hero of the current economic slump. now, some folks say he looked like zubin meh Ubin mehta); still others say "bullshit, honey, it was just another guy who happened to be born next 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 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 to be such a hero, folks And marvelouse compute You can never tell about a guy like that he's really a nice person Or if he just a lot Or if he has a son named or what. he's really a nice person Or if he has a son named or what. men say he could fly Some men say he swim say he could sing like neil sedaka, And all the girls in would be amazed of him Two, three of him ... amazed ...
Time 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 the E ring in the secret briefcase, a strong masculine hand with a dudley do-right wristwatch and flexy braclet grabbed it and in a deep, calmly assured voice: "so... ah... yeah, yeah Already ... what? ... well, yeah? ... ah-are you kidding? ... you're not kidding ... a ... 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 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 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 account? ... and per diem, ..."
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 for guidence, featuring aynsley dunbar! ... hit it! ... Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, ... Hey, hand from a heart Left hand a heart Right from a heart Left from a left shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can dance like studebacher ... So many rumors have spread about studebacher hoch ... consider this rumor 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 head 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 Right beside elliot robert's big bank book, next to the boat where crosby flushed away all his stash and the got him in the boat and drove away, to the can where neil young slipped another ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And that was the influence on him The of a frozen beef 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 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 where nobody was looking, he cut out some Y, really, really nice wings and he them thoroughly with foil ...
Then he 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 blue 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 was filling with flies ( help me! help me! help me! ) ... he held The legs of his boxer shorts so they could all get in, and when each and 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 everything up, out of parking lot, and i He sky.
hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher hoch He's coating his With jemima syrup up and down His shorts will be filled flies That be buzzing all around hoch is really outa sight Studebacher hoch, he does it every hoch, he treats the flies all right Studebacher why they never bite, hey!
Hey to new york 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 he requires leading him on ''cause is gone They leading him on ''cause is gone And the she's on
And speaking of mountains - - we'll join studebacher hoch on the 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 this f R ..."
Ah, but ethel just shook her angrily. but studebacher hoch, calm, cool, collected and unperturbed, continued:
"ya, well listen ... listen you communist sonofabitch ... you get your ass down there for your fuckin' physical or I'll see to it that you get used for fill dirt in some impending 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, billy just laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if they think they're draft me, they're crazy."
Unfortunately, because studebacher hoch was standing on the of billy the mountain's mouth when the giant mountain laughed ... studebacher hoch lost his footing and fell screaming, two hundr Et into the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna a truss ...")
Ah listen, that only to show you And it'l show you once again A mountain is something you don't fuck with You don't wanna with fuck around Don't around Don't with billy, no And don't fuck ethel You saw what happened To the guy the flies
Don't around Don't fuck Don't around Don't fuck Don't around fuck around Don't around biddilly, biddilly Biddilly the
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to mention is where we take our intermission. We will see you in a few you, we'll be back.