Mark (lead vocals) kaylan (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) Aynsley (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
Billy the Billy the A regular mountain Residing lovely and gorman With his wife ethel A tree, a tree.
was a mountain Ethel was a growing off of his shoulder was a mountain Billy was a Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder Ethel was a tree growing off of his ( 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 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 believe it: all 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, 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 of dust puffed out ... rocks and boulders hacked up, hack! hack! ... c Ng the ...
I gave him the He acted funny He up a rock and It my car Oh do you any trucks Might be for the valley I don't wanna stand 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, 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 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, a few handles and drink 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, 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! ... eat some clams? ...
The first noteworhty piece of real estate they destroyed was edwards air force base. and to this very day, wing-nuts and data clerks alike speak in reverent whispers about that fateful T when test stand number one and the rocket sled itself got lunched, I 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 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 monica ... tujunga ... sunland ... san fernando ... . 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 indictement and pave the way for stiffer legislation, federal aid, and avert a crippling strike of bartenders and veterinarians throughout the inlan Ire ..."
Within the week, jerry 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 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 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...!") 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 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 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 tell ya, ethel said, now ethel, ethel she T 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 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 stop all of 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 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 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) when a person gets 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 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. men say he could fly Some men say he swim Others say he could 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, 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 Already ... what? ... well, yeah? ... ah-are you kidding? ... 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 ... 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 )...wanted for draft evasion? ... an expense account? ... and per diem, too? ..."
Some men say he dance They said he dance And of course they were ...
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, right from a heart hand from a heart Right from a heart Left hand from a shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... can dance like 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 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, 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 slipped another ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And that was the 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 around the back of the 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 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 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 with flies ( help me! help me! help me! ) ... he The 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 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 booth and everything lifted up, out of lot, and i He sky.
Studebacher Yeah, yeah, hoch Studebacher Studebacher Yeah, yeah, hoch Studebacher He's his legs aunt jemima syrup up and down His shorts will be filled with That be buzzing all around Studebacher hoch is really outa Studebacher hoch, he it every night hoch, he treats the flies all right Studebacher why they never 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 flies he Keep him on ''cause is gone keep leading him on ''cause ethel is And the she's on
And speaking of mountains - - we'll join studebacher 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 ... 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 will wind up disguised as series of brooms, primative ironing boards or a dog ... get the ( cough, cough) get the picture? "
Ya, well just laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if they they're 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 ... 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 only to show you And show you once again that A mountain is something you don't fuck with You don't wanna with fuck around Don't fuck fuck with billy, no And don't with ethel You saw just happened To the guy with the
fuck around Don't around fuck around Don't around fuck around Don't fuck Don't fuck biddilly, biddilly Biddilly the
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to this is where we take our intermission. We see you in a few minutes you, we'll be back.