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 wife ethel A tree, a tree.
Billy was a was a tree growing off of his shoulder Billy was a was a mountain Ethel was a 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 go up or down 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 cadillac leased 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 those h Osed for, for all of 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 ... rocks and boulders 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 Might be bound for the I wanna stand here All night in bar ( dear ) I don't stand here All in this bar ( no ) I don't stand 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 ... she creaked 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 vegas to out the lounges, Pull a few handles and a few beers, oh ethel, Ethel, my darling, you that I love you, I'm we could have a vacation this year, Oh neat-o, glad we have a vacation this year."
They left that night, crunchin' across the mojave desert, their voices echoing thru the 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 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 sled itself got lunched, I said lunched, by a famous mountain and his 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 valley smut ring. however, we can assure 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 ... cheviot hills ... will provide the secret evidence the palmdale Jury has needed to seek a 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 hosted a telethon ( la la la nice lady ) to raise 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(? ) 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 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 weird wind came up, direct from glen Blowing those terrible germs in his direction ... and all this 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 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 informed 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 mortal man who might be able to stop all of this 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 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 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 gets to be a hero, folks And beyond compute You can never really tell about a guy like Whether he's really a person Or if he just a lot Or if he has a son pinocchio or what. he's really a nice person Or if he has a son pinocchio or what. men say he could fly Some men say he swim Others say he could sing neil sedaka, And all the in flushing would be amazed of him Two, three amazed of him ... ...
Time passed. january, february, march, july, wednesdey, august, irwindale, two-thirty in the afternoon, sunday, monday, funny cars, walnuts, city of industry, big masamanian ... so when the E ring in the secret briefcase, a strong masculine hand with a dudley do-right wristwatch and 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 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 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 evasion? ... an expense account? ... and per diem, too? ..."
Some men say he dance They he could dance And of course they were ...
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, hand from a heart Left hand a heart Right hand a heart Left hand from a shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... can dance 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 next to the 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 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 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 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 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 with ...
Then he took those wings and wedged one under each of his powerful arms and 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 of his legs! ... soon the booth 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.
Studebacher Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher Studebacher Yeah, yeah, Studebacher hoch He's his legs With jemima syrup up and down His will be filled with flies That will be all around Studebacher hoch is really sight Studebacher hoch, he does it every Studebacher hoch, he treats the flies all 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 be a narc Or a lady Or he might play He's over old ... I know His attire And the flies he leading him on ''cause is gone They leading him on ''cause is gone And the mountain on
And of mountains - - we'll 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 ... 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 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 wind up disguised as series of brooms, primative ironing or a dog house ... get the ( cough, cough) get the picture? "
Ya, well billy just
"ha, ha, ha. if they they're gonna draft me, they're crazy."
Unfortunately, because studebacher hoch was standing on the edge of the mountain's mouth when the giant mountain laughed ... studebacher hoch lost his footing and fell screaming, two hundr Et into the rubble ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna need a truss ...")
Ah listen, only goes to show you And it'l show you again that A mountain is something you wanna fuck with You don't wanna with fuck around Don't fuck Don't with billy, no And fuck with ethel You saw what happened To the guy the flies
Don't around fuck around Don't around Don't fuck fuck around Don't around Don't fuck biddilly, biddilly Biddilly the
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I to mention this is where we take our intermission. We see you in a few minutes you, we'll be back.