Mark (lead vocals) Howard (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) Aynsley (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
Billy the the mountain 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 tree growing off of his Ethel was a tree growing off of his ( hey, hey, hey! ) had two big Caves for a cliff 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 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 the mountain, he couldn't believe it: all those 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, which was a cliff, it ... it dropped thirty feet! a bunch of dust puffed out ... rocks and boulders hacked up, hack! hack! ... c Ng the ...
I gave him the He acted funny He hacked up a and It my car Oh do you Know any Might be bound for the I wanna stand here All night in bar ( lord ) I wanna stand here All night in bar ( no ) I don't wanna stand All night in bar
By two o'clock, when bars had already closed down, billy had broken the big news to ethel, ahhhh, and with dust and boulders everywhere, billy, with exitement, announced: "ethel, we' Ing on a vacation!"... yes, and they going on a vacation, oh, and ethel, ethel, ethel, like any little woman, she of course was very excited ... she creaked a little bit, and some old Flew off of her. billy told ethel they were going to... yes, they where going to new york! "ethel, we're going to... new york! but first they were stop in las vegas...
"it's off to las vegas to out the lounges, Pull a few handles and a few beers, oh ethel, Ethel, my darling, you know I love you, I'm glad we could a vacation this year, Oh neat-o, glad we could have a vacation year."
They left that night, 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 day, wing-nuts and data reduction clerks alike speak in reverent whispers about that fateful T when stand 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 abuse and payoffs as part of san joaquin valley smut ring. however, we can parents in the s Rn california area that a narcotic crackdown in torrence ... hawthorne ... lomita ... westchester ... playa del rey ... santa monica ... tujunga ... sunland ... san fernando ... pacoima . Lmar ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... rolling hills ... granada hills ... shadow hills ... cheviot ... will provide the secret evidence the palmdale Jury has needed to seek a criminal indictement and pave the way for 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 over the secret dumps, right near the jack in the box on glenoaks where t Eep the pools of old poison gas and 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 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, blue birds fly, sucking up of it ( suck, suc Ck) for an ultimetly dispersal over stretches 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 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 confirmed reports from an informed orange county minister that ethel is still an 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 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 current 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 next to the frozen pies at boney's market..."; still others say "pshaw/ (? ), and piss on you, jack, he's 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) when a person gets to be such a hero, folks And marvelouse beyond You can never really about a guy like that Whether he's really a nice Or if he smiles a lot Or if he has a son named or what. Whether he's a nice person Or if he has a son pinocchio or what. Some men say he fly Some men say he could Others say he could like neil sedaka, And all the girls in flushing 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 ... so when the E ring in the secret briefcase, a strong masculine hand with a dudley do-right and flexy braclet grabbed it and answered in a deep, calmly assured voice: "so... ah... yeah, yeah Already ... what? ... well, yeah? ... ah-are you kidding? ... you're not kidding ... a mountain ... with a tree growing off of it's shoulder? aw, you're 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 little 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? ..."
men say he could dance They said he could And of they were right ...
and gentelmen, this is it: the studebacher hoch dancing lesson & cosmic prayer for guidence, featuring aynsley dunbar! ... hit it! ... Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, ... Hey, right hand from a Left hand from a Right hand from a Left hand from a left To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can like studebacher 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 head of a pin!" (no!) do-do-do do-do-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 elliot robert's big bank book, next to the boat where crosby 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 influence 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 back of the broadway at hollywood boulevard and vine to see if he could him Some big, large, unused cardboard boxes ( no shit! )... after he hit up the ralph's on sunset for some aunt 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 covered them with foil ...
Then he took those wings and wedged one under each of his powerful arms and sneaked into a 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 booth was filling with flies ( help me! help me! me! ) ... he held The legs of his boxer shorts so they could all get in, and when each and every one of those little cocksucking flies had gone into his pants and they lapping up all that maple syrup, he be Er and he put his head his legs and he said in a very clear, impressive, ron-hubbard-type voice: "new york"... and the booth and everything lifted up, out of parking lot, and i He sky.
Studebacher Yeah, yeah, hoch Studebacher hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher coating his legs aunt jemima syrup up and down His will be filled with flies That will be all around Studebacher hoch is outa sight Studebacher hoch, he does it night hoch, he treats the flies all right Studebacher That's why they 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 might play He's over old ... I don't His attire And the flies he leading him on ''cause is gone keep leading him on ''cause ethel is And the she's 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 ... your number came up ... ya can't go on running like this f R ..."
Ah, but ethel just her twigs angrily. but studebacher 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 see to it that you get used for fill dirt in some impending ne Sey marsh reclamation ... and your girlfiend there wind up disguised as series of brooms, primative ironing boards or a dog house ... get the ( cough, cough) get the picture? "
Ya, well just laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if they think 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 laughed ... studebacher hoch lost his and fell screaming, two hundr Et the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna need a truss ...")
Ah listen, only goes to show you And it'l show you once again A mountain is something you don't wanna with You don't fuck with Don't around fuck around Don't fuck billy, no And don't fuck ethel You saw what happened To the guy the flies
fuck around Don't around Don't fuck fuck around Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't fuck With biddilly, Biddilly the
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to mention this is where we our intermission. We will see you in a few Thank you, be back.