Mark (lead vocals) kaylan (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) Aynsley (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
Billy the the mountain A regular mountain Residing between and gorman 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 was a tree growing off of his shoulder ( hey, hey, hey! ) had two big Caves for With a 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 leased from bob spreene ( "where the freeways in downey!" ) He laid a huge bulging envelope right at the corner of billy the mountain, was right where his foot was supposed to be. now billy the mountain, he couldn't believe it: all those postcards 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 in amazement... and his jaw, which was a cliff, well it ... it dropped thirty feet! a bunch of dust puffed out ... rocks and boulders hacked up, hack! hack! ... c Ng the ...
I him the money He real funny He hacked up a and It my car Oh do you any trucks Might be for the valley I don't wanna here All night in bar ( lord ) I don't wanna here All in this bar ( no ) I wanna stand here All in this bar
By two o'clock, bars 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 very ... 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 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 know that I you, I'm we could have a vacation this year, Oh neat-o, we could have 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 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 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 joaquin smut ring. however, we can assure parents in the s Rn california area that a recent narcotic crackdown in torrence ... hawthorne ... lomita ... ... playa del rey ... santa monica ... tujunga ... sunland ... san fernando ... pacoima . Lmar ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... ... 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 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 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...!") playing ( "come here, toto ...!") and having a nice time with his little accordion, ("toto...!") and this weird wind 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 vast stretches of ... watts!!!
Now, unless I misunderstood, it was right outside of columbus, 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 minister that ethel is still an active communist It is this reporter's opinion 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 all of this senseless destruction and save america herself. an Sorry to disappoint of you, it was not chief redden. this 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 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 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 gets to be such a hero, folks And marvelouse beyond You can never tell about 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 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 like 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, in the afternoon, sunday, monday, funny cars, walnuts, city 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 in a deep, calmly assured voice: "so... ah... yeah, yeah ... 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 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 some of those for me ... we're having a lot of,...listen, so kiss jakee on Head... and how's your wife's hemorrhoids? ...ah, 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
destruction..( my baby, my baby )...wanted for draft evasion? ... an expense account? ... and per diem, too? ..."
Some men say he could They said he dance And of course they were ...
Ladies and gentelmen, this is it: the studebacher hoch dancing lesson & cosmic prayer for guidence, aynsley dunbar! ... hit it! ... Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, ... Hey, right from a heart hand from a heart Right hand a heart Left hand from a 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 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 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 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 was the main influence 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 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, 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 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 sneaked into a telephone booth ..yes,yes!! and 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 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 flies had gone into his pants and they were lapping up all that maple syrup, he be Er and he put his between 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 Studebacher Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher He's his legs aunt jemima syrup up and down His shorts will be with flies will be buzzing all around Studebacher is really outa sight Studebacher hoch, he does it night Studebacher hoch, he the flies all right hoch 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 lady Or he play dirty He's over old ... I know His peculiar And the he requires leading him on ''cause ethel is keep leading him on ''cause ethel is And the mountain 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 you ... our great country needs 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 twigs angrily. but studebacher hoch, calm, cool, collected and unperturbed,
"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, billy just laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if they think they're gonna 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 into the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna need a ...")
Ah listen, that goes to show you And show you once again that A mountain is you don't wanna fuck with You don't wanna with Don't around Don't fuck fuck with billy, no And don't fuck with You saw just happened To the guy the flies
Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't around Don't around fuck around Don't around biddilly, biddilly Biddilly the
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to mention this is where we our intermission. We see you in a few minutes Thank you, be back.