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 Rosamond and his stunning wife ethel A tree, a tree.
Billy was a Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder was a mountain Billy was a was a tree growing off of his shoulder Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder ( hey, hey, hey! ) had two big Caves for a cliff for a jaw That would go up or And it did puff 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 leased from bob spreene ( "where the meet in downey!" ) He laid a huge bulging envelope right at the corner of billy the mountain, that was right 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, 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 up a rock and It my car Oh do you any trucks Might be bound for the I don't wanna here All in this bar ( dear ) I don't wanna here All night in bar ( no ) I don't stand 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 excited ... she creaked a little bit, and some old Flew off of her. billy told ethel they were going to... yes, they 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 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 could have a this year, Oh neat-o, glad we could a vacation 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 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 that fateful T when test stand number one and the rocket sled itself got lunched, I 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 ... 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 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 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 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, from glen Blowing those terrible germs in his direction ... and all this caused by huge mountain ("aunty em") over the rainbow, blue birds fly, sucking up two-thirds of it ( suck, suc Ck) for an ultimetly 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 induction physical. now 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. one man was studebacher 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 greasy guy who happened to be born next to the frozen beef pies at 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 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 a hero, folks And marvelouse compute You can never really tell a guy like that Whether really a nice person Or if he smiles a lot Or if he has a son pinocchio or what. Whether he's really a person Or if he has a son pinocchio 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, 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 masculine hand with a dudley do-right wristwatch and flexy braclet grabbed it and answered in a deep, calmly assured voice: "so... ah... yeah, yeah Already ... what? ... well, yeah? ... ah-are you ... 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 albums I sent ya with the pencil on the front, yeah? yeah, you should some of those for me ... we're having a lot of,...listen, so kiss little jakee on Head... and how's your 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 ... an expense account? ... and per diem, too? ..."
Some men say he dance They said he dance And of course they were ...
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, right hand from a Left from a heart Right from a heart Left hand from a shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can like studebacher hoch ... So many rumors have spread about studebacher hoch ... consider this 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 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 and drove away, to the can where neil young slipped another ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And that was the main 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 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 aunt jemima syrup, 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 where nobody was looking, he cut out Y, really, really nice 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 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! me! help 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 his pants and they were 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.
hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher hoch He's his legs aunt jemima syrup up and down His shorts will be with flies That will be buzzing all Studebacher hoch is really outa Studebacher hoch, he does it night Studebacher hoch, he the flies all right Studebacher That's why never bite, hey!
Hey to new york Fly to new
He be a dog Or a Or a queen (fly to new york) He be a narc Or a lady Or he play dirty over thirty old ... I don't His attire And the he requires Keep him on ''cause ethel is keep leading him on ''cause is gone And the she's on
And speaking of mountains - - we'll join studebacher hoch on the edge of 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 you in the armed forces ... your number came up ... ya can't go on running like 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 better get your ass there for your fuckin' physical or I'll see to it that you get used for fill dirt in some impending ne Sey marsh ... 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, well just laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if they they're gonna draft me, they're crazy."
Unfortunately, because studebacher hoch was on the edge of billy the mountain's mouth when the giant mountain laughed ... studebacher hoch lost his footing and fell screaming, two hundr Et into the 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 fuck with You don't wanna with Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't with billy, no And fuck with ethel You saw what happened To the guy with the
Don't fuck fuck around Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't around Don't fuck Don't around biddilly, biddilly Biddilly the
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I to mention this is where we take our intermission. We will see you in a few you, we'll be back.