Mark (lead vocals) Howard (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) Aynsley (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
the mountain Billy the A picturesque mountain Residing lovely Rosamond and With his stunning ethel A tree, a tree.
Billy was a Ethel was a tree growing off of his was a mountain Billy was a was a tree growing off of his shoulder Ethel was a growing 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 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 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 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, well it ... it dropped thirty feet! a bunch of dust puffed out ... and boulders hacked up, hack! hack! ... c Ng the ...
I gave him the He acted real He up a rock and It my car Oh do you Know any be bound for the valley I don't wanna here All in this bar ( dear ) I don't wanna here All in this bar ( no ) I don't wanna here 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 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 creaked a 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 and drink a few beers, oh ethel, Ethel, my darling, you know that I you, I'm glad we could 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 cawfee? howard johnson's, ahhh there's a howard jo 's! ... wanna eat some ...
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 in reverent whispers about that fateful T when test stand number one and the rocket 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 of san joaquin valley smut ring. however, we can assure parents in the s Rn california area that a recent narcotic crackdown in ... hawthorne ... lomita ... westchester ... playa del rey ... santa monica ... tujunga ... sunland ... san fernando ... pacoima . ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... rolling hills ... granada hills ... shadow hills ... cheviot hills ... will provide the secret evidence the palmdale Jury has needed to seek a criminal 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 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 underground dumps, right near the 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 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 came up, direct from glen Blowing those terrible germs in his direction ... and all this caused by huge mountain ("aunty em") somewhere 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 of columbus, ohio 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 gonna let you go, billy" ... that's right, we now have confirmed reports from an orange county minister that ethel is still an active communist It is reporter's opinion that she also practices covent witch-craft ...
It was about this time that the telephone rang inside of the secret briefcase belonging to one 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, new super hero of the current economic slump. now, some folks say he looked like zubin meh Ubin mehta); others say "bullshit, honey, it was just another greasy 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 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 gets to be such a hero, folks And marvelouse beyond You can never really tell about a guy that he's really a nice person Or if he smiles 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 girls in flushing would be of him Two, amazed of him ... amazed ...
Time passed. january, february, march, july, wednesdey, august, irwindale, two-thirty in the afternoon, sunday, monday, funny cars, walnuts, 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 grabbed it and answered in a deep, calmly assured voice: "so... ah... 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 white 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 this down... sorta a few notes here... ...to el segundo, ...causing
Untold destruction..( my baby, my baby )...wanted for draft evasion? ... an expense account? ... and per diem, ..."
men say he could dance They said he could And of they were right ...
Ladies and gentelmen, is it: the studebacher hoch dancing lesson & cosmic prayer for guidence, featuring aynsley dunbar! ... hit it! ... Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, ... Hey, hand from a heart Left from a heart Right hand from a hand from a left shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can dance like studebacher ... So 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 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 autographed pict Right beside elliot robert's big bank book, next to the boat where crosby flushed away all his 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 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 and vine to see if he could find 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 than ralph's... in the parking lot of ralph's, in between a pair of customized trucks where nobody was looking, he cut out some Y, really, really nice wings and he covered them thoroughly foil ...
Then he took those wings and 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 booth was filling flies ( help me! help me! help me! ) ... he held The legs of his boxer shorts so they 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 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 He's coating his With jemima syrup up and down His will be filled with flies That will be all around hoch is really outa sight Studebacher hoch, he does it every hoch, he treats the flies all right Studebacher 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 play dirty He's over old ... I don't His attire And the he requires Keep him on ''cause ethel is 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 forces ... your number up ... ya can't 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 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 impending ne Sey reclamation ... and your 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 his footing and fell screaming, two hundr Et the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna need a truss ...")
Ah listen, that only to show you And it'l show you once again A is something you don't wanna fuck with You don't fuck with Don't around Don't fuck Don't with billy, no And don't fuck with You saw just happened To the guy the flies
fuck around Don't fuck fuck around Don't fuck Don't around Don't fuck Don't fuck biddilly, 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.