Mark (lead vocals) kaylan (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) dunbar (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
Billy the the mountain A picturesque mountain Residing lovely and gorman With his stunning wife A tree, a tree.
Billy was a was a tree growing off of his shoulder Billy was a Billy was a Ethel was a tree 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 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 dorado cadillac leased 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 the mountain, he couldn't believe it: all those postcards h for, for all of those 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, 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 acted funny He up a rock and It my car Oh do you Know any Might be bound for the I don't wanna stand All in this bar ( lord ) I don't stand here All night in bar ( no ) I don't wanna stand All night in 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, any little woman, she of course was very excited ... she creaked a little bit, and some old Flew off of her. told ethel they were 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 vegas to out the lounges, Pull a few and drink 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 mojave desert, their voices echoing thru the canyons of your minds... "ethel, wanna get a cuppa cawfee? howard johnson's, ahhh there's a jo 's! ... eat some clams? ...
The noteworhty piece of real 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 test stand number 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 this mountain and his wife to drug 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 ... ... playa del rey ... santa monica ... tujunga ... sunland ... san fernando ... pacoima . Lmar ... newhall ... park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... rolling hills ... granada hills ... shadow 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 bartenders and 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(? ) papa' in the earth's crust, right over the 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 o'clock in the afternoon when little howard kaplan was sitting on hi Ch ( "toto...!") just ( "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 mountain ("aunty em") somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly, sucking up two-thirds of it ( suck, suc Ck) for an ultimetly dispersal over 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 lemme 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 that ethel is an active communist It is this reporter's opinion that she also practices covent ...
It was about this time that the telephone rang inside of the secret briefcase 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 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 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 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 person to be such a hero, folks And marvelouse beyond You can never really about a guy like that Whether he's a nice person Or if he just a lot Or if he has a son named or what. Whether he's really a person Or if he has a son pinocchio or what. Some men say he fly men say he could swim Others say he could sing neil sedaka, And all the girls in flushing 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 flexy 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 shoulder? aw, fulla shit, man... ah listen, by the way, Re you go on; did you get 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 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 could And of course were right ...
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, hand from a heart Left hand a heart Right from a heart hand from a left shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can dance like studebacher ... So many rumors have 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 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 beef pies, joni mitchell's autographed pict Right beside elliot robert's big bank book, next to the boat where crosby flushed 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 was the main influence on him The influence of a beef pie ]
Boldly springing into he phoned 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 boiler foil and of blunt sissors, yeah! ... yes, N the parking lot of ralph's ... where no prices are lower prices 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, 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 fucking door! ... and he pulled down his 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 ( 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 lapping up all maple syrup, he be Er and he put his head between his legs and he said in a very clear, impressive, ron-hubbard-type "new york"... and the booth and everything lifted up, out of parking lot, and i He sky.
hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher hoch Studebacher Yeah, yeah, hoch Studebacher coating his legs With aunt jemima up and down His will be filled with flies That will be all around Studebacher hoch is outa sight Studebacher hoch, he does it every hoch, he treats the flies all right Studebacher That's why they bite, hey!
Hey to new york Fly to new
He be a dog Or a Or a queen (fly to new york) He could be a Or a marine Or he might play over thirty old ... I know His attire And the he requires leading him on ''cause ethel is They keep him on ''cause ethel is 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 needs you in the armed forces ... your 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 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 will wind up disguised as series of brooms, primative ironing boards or a dog house ... get the ( cough, cough) get the picture? "
Ya, well billy laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if think 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 the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna need a truss ...")
Ah listen, that goes to show you And it'l show you again that A mountain is something you don't wanna fuck You don't wanna fuck Don't fuck Don't around Don't fuck billy, no And don't fuck ethel You saw what just To the guy with the
Don't around Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't around Don't fuck fuck 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 Thank you, be back.