Mark (lead vocals) Howard (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) dunbar (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
the mountain Billy the A regular mountain Residing between Rosamond and With his stunning ethel A tree, a tree.
Billy was a Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder was a mountain Billy was a Ethel was a growing off of his shoulder Ethel was a growing off of his shoulder ( hey, hey, hey! ) had two big Caves for a cliff for a jaw That would go up or 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 suit drove up in large el dorado cadillac leased from bob spreene ( "where the 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 it: all those postcards h Osed 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 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 him the money He acted funny He up a rock and It my car Oh do you Know any be bound for the valley I don't wanna stand All night in bar ( dear ) I don't stand here All in this bar ( no ) I don't wanna stand 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 excited ... she creaked a little bit, and some old Flew off of her. billy told ethel they were 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 and drink a few beers, oh ethel, Ethel, my darling, you know I love you, I'm glad we 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 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, wing-nuts and data reduction clerks alike in reverent whispers about that fateful T when 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 links this mountain and his wife to drug abuse and payoffs as 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 monica ... ... 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 strike of bartenders and 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 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 secret underground dumps, right near the in the box on glenoaks where t Eep the pools of old poison gas and 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 those terrible germs in his direction ... and all this caused by huge mountain ("aunty em") somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly, sucking up two-thirds of it ( suck, suc Ck) for an ultimetly over 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 let you go, billy" ... that's right, we now have confirmed reports from an informed orange county minister that ethel is still an active communist It is this reporter's opinion that she also practices 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 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 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 frozen beef pies at market..."; still others say "pshaw/ (? ), and piss on you, jack, he's a crazy iatlian who drove 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 person gets to be a hero, folks And marvelouse beyond You can never really tell about a guy like Whether really a nice person Or if he smiles a lot Or if he has a son named or what. Whether he's really a person Or if he has a son named or what. Some men say he fly men say he could swim Others say he could sing like sedaka, And all the girls in 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 answered in a deep, calmly 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 pencil on the front, yeah? yeah, you should 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, 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 dance They said he could And of course they were ...
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, right hand from a Left hand a heart Right hand a heart Left hand from a shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can like studebacher hoch ... So many rumors have spread 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 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, 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 young another ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And that was the influence on him The of a frozen beef pie ]
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 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 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 trucks nobody was looking, he cut out some Y, really, really nice wings and he covered thoroughly with foil ...
Then he took those wings and wedged one 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 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 filling 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 cocksucking 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 hoch Studebacher Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher He's his legs With jemima syrup up and down His will be filled with flies That will be buzzing all hoch is really outa sight Studebacher hoch, he does it every Studebacher hoch, he the flies all right hoch 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 lady Or he might dirty He's thirty old ... I don't His attire And the he requires Keep him on ethel is gone They keep him on ''cause ethel is And the she's 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 ... your number came up ... ya 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 your ass down there for your fuckin' physical or I'll see to it that you get for fill dirt in some impending ne Sey marsh reclamation ... and your girlfiend there will 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 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 ... 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, that only 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 around fuck around Don't with billy, no And don't fuck with You saw what happened To the guy with the
Don't around Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't fuck fuck around Don't around Don't around With 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.