Mark (lead vocals) kaylan (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) Aynsley (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
the mountain Billy the A regular mountain Residing between and gorman With his wife ethel 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 off of his shoulder Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder ( hey, hey, hey! ) had two big Caves for With a for a jaw would go up or down And it did He'd puff out 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 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 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 Osed for, for all of those years, and finally, now at last, his royalties! "royalties, royalties, royalties! the 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 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 don't stand here All in this bar ( lord ) I don't wanna here All in this bar ( no ) I don't wanna stand All in this 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 were 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, 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 that I love you, I'm glad we could have a vacation year, Oh neat-o, glad we could have a vacation year."
They left that night, crunchin' across the mojave desert, their voices echoing the canyons of your minds... "ethel, wanna get a cuppa cawfee? howard johnson's, ahhh there's a howard jo 's! ... wanna eat some ...
The first noteworhty piece of real estate 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 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 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 ... tujunga ... sunland ... san fernando ... pacoima . Lmar ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... rolling hills ... granada hills ... shadow hills ... cheviot hills ... will provide the evidence the palmdale Jury has needed to seek a criminal indictement and pave the way for stiffer legislation, increased federal aid, and avert a crippling of bartenders and veterinarians throughout the inlan Ire ..."
Within 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 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 ... 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") over the rainbow, blue 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 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 informed orange county minister ethel is still an active communist It is this reporter's that she also practices covent witch-craft ...
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 studebacher hoch, fantastic new super 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 beef pies at boney's market..."; still others say "pshaw/ (? ), and piss on you, jack, he's just a crazy iatlian who 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) ''cause when a gets to be such a hero, folks And marvelouse compute You can never really about a guy like that Whether he's really a person Or if he just a lot Or if he has a son named or what. Whether really 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 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 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 a lot of,...listen, so kiss little jakee on Head... and how's your wife's hemorrhoids? ...ah, that's too bad...listen...so 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? ..."
men say he could dance They he could dance 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, hand from a heart Left from a heart Right hand from a hand from a left shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can dance studebacher hoch ... So many 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 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 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 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 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 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 them thoroughly with foil ...
Then he took those wings and wedged one under each of his powerful arms and sneaked 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 every one of those little cocksucking 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 and everything lifted up, out of parking lot, and i He sky.
Studebacher Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher Studebacher Yeah, yeah, hoch Studebacher coating his legs With aunt jemima up and down His shorts be filled with flies That be buzzing all around Studebacher is really outa sight hoch, he does it every night Studebacher hoch, he treats the flies all Studebacher That's why never bite, hey!
Hey please to new Fly to new
He be a dog Or a Or a lesbian (fly to new york) He be a narc Or a marine Or he might dirty over thirty old ... I don't His peculiar And the flies he Keep him on ''cause ethel is They keep him on ''cause ethel is And the mountain on
And speaking of mountains - - we'll join studebacher hoch on the edge of billy the 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 shook her angrily. but studebacher hoch, calm, cool, collected and unperturbed, continued:
"ya, well listen ... listen you communist sonofabitch ... you better get 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 wind up disguised as of brooms, primative ironing boards or a dog house ... get the ( cough, cough) get the picture? "
Ya, well billy laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if they think they're gonna me, they're crazy."
Unfortunately, because studebacher was standing 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 rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm need a truss ...")
Ah listen, that only goes to you And it'l you once again that A mountain is something you don't fuck with You don't wanna fuck Don't fuck Don't around Don't fuck billy, no And don't with ethel You saw what just To the guy with the
Don't fuck Don't around Don't around Don't fuck fuck around Don't around Don't around With biddilly, the mountain
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to mention is where we take our intermission. We see you in a few minutes you, we'll be back.