Mark (lead vocals) Howard (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) dunbar (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
the mountain Billy the A picturesque mountain Residing lovely Rosamond and his stunning wife ethel A tree, a tree.
Billy was a Ethel was a growing off of his shoulder Billy was a Billy was a Ethel was a tree growing off of his Ethel was a tree 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 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 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 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 hacked up, hack! hack! ... c Ng the ...
I gave him the He acted real He hacked up a and It my car Oh do you any trucks Might be for the valley I don't stand here All in this bar ( dear ) I don't stand here All night in bar ( no ) I don't wanna stand 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 boulders everywhere, billy, choked with exitement, "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 a little bit, and some old Flew off of her. billy told ethel they going to... yes, they 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 to check out the lounges, Pull a few handles and 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 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 real estate they destroyed was edwards air force base. and to this very day, 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 valley smut ring. however, we can assure in the s Rn california that a recent 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 ... hills ... cheviot hills ... will provide the secret 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 strike of and veterinarians throughout the inlan Ire ..."
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 just l Ed it. and a few miles right outside of town 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 gas and obsolete germs 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...!") 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") somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly, up two-thirds of it ( suck, suc Ck) for an ultimetly dispersal vast stretches of ... watts!!!
Now, unless I misunderstood, it was outside 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 an informed orange county minister that ethel is still an active communist It is this reporter's opinion that she also covent witch-craft ...
It was about this time that the telephone rang inside of the secret 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 hero of the current economic slump. now, some folks say he 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 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 sure because 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 pinocchio or what. he's 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 be amazed 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 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, yeah Already ... what? ... well, yeah? ... ah-are you kidding? ... you're not kidding ... a mountain ... with a tree growing off of it's 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 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 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 said he could And of course were right ...
Ladies and gentelmen, this is it: the hoch dancing lesson & cosmic prayer for guidence, featuring aynsley dunbar! ... hit it! ... Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, ... Hey, right from a heart Left hand from a Right from a heart Left hand a left shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can dance like studebacher ... So many rumors have spread about studebacher hoch ... consider this rumor which was published about three weeks ago in rolling stone ( oh, 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 boat and drove away, to the can where neil slipped another ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And that was the influence 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 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 boiler foil and pair of sissors, yeah! ... yes, N the 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 some Y, really, nice wings and he covered them thoroughly with foil ...
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 maple syrup all over the inside 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 flies had gone into his pants and they were 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.
hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher He's coating his With aunt syrup up and down His shorts will be filled with will be buzzing all around Studebacher is really outa sight Studebacher hoch, he does it night Studebacher hoch, he treats the all right hoch 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 lady Or he might dirty He's thirty old ... I don't His attire And the he requires leading him on ''cause ethel is keep leading him on ''cause is gone And the mountain on
And speaking of mountains - - we'll join hoch on the edge of billy the mountain's mouth .. take it away! ...
"ah ... ya, ya, ya, hey-ah, billy, listen ... I've to reason with 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 just shook her twigs angrily. but studebacher hoch, calm, cool, collected and unperturbed, continued:
"ya, well listen ... listen you communist sonofabitch ... you better get your ass down there for your fuckin' physical or I'll see to it you get used for fill dirt in some impending ne Sey marsh reclamation ... and your 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 gonna 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 into the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm need a truss ...")
Ah listen, that only to show you And it'l you once again that A mountain is something you don't wanna fuck You don't fuck with fuck around Don't around Don't fuck billy, no And don't fuck with You saw just happened To the guy with the
Don't around fuck around Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't around Don't fuck 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 will see you in a few Thank you, be back.