Mark (lead vocals) kaylan (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) dunbar (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
the mountain Billy the A picturesque Postcardy between lovely Rosamond and With his stunning wife A tree, a tree.
was a mountain Ethel was a tree off of his shoulder was a mountain Billy was a 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 bob spreene ( "where the freeways meet in downey!" ) He 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 those postcards h Osed for, for all of those years, and finally, now at last, his royalties! "royalties, royalties, royalties! the royalty 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 gave him the He acted real He up a rock and It my car Oh do you any trucks Might be for the valley I wanna stand here All night in bar ( dear ) I don't wanna stand All night in bar ( no ) I don't stand here All in this bar
By two o'clock, when 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 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, a few handles and drink a few beers, oh ethel, Ethel, my darling, you that I love you, I'm glad we could a vacation this year, Oh neat-o, glad we could have a 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, there's a howard jo 's! ... eat some clams? ...
The first noteworhty piece of real estate they destroyed was edwards air 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 lunched, by a famous mountain and his small wooden wife ...
"word just in to the 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 parents in the s Rn california area that a recent narcotic crackdown in torrence ... hawthorne ... lomita ... westchester ... playa del rey ... 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 ..."
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 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 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 playing ( "come here, toto ...!") and having a nice 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 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 from an informed orange county minister that ethel is still an active 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 this senseless 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 mehta); still others say "bullshit, honey, it was just another 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 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 gets to be such a hero, folks And marvelouse beyond You can never really tell a guy like that Whether he's a nice 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 pinocchio or what. men say he could fly Some men say he swim Others say he could sing like sedaka, And all the girls in flushing would be of him Two, amazed 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 answered in a deep, calmly voice: "so... ah... yeah, yeah Already ... what? ... well, yeah? ... ah-are you ... 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 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 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 evasion? ... an account? ... and per diem, too? ..."
men say he could dance They said he dance And of course they 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, right hand a heart Left hand a heart Right hand from a Left hand from a left To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can dance like studebacher ... So many rumors have spread about studebacher hoch ... 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, underneath joni mitchell's 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 slipped ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And that was the main 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 broadway at hollywood boulevard and 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 syrup, some kaiser boiler foil and pair of blunt 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, really nice wings and he covered 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 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 was filling with flies ( help me! help me! help me! ) ... he held The legs of his 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 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 hoch He's coating his aunt jemima syrup up and down His shorts will be filled flies That be buzzing all around Studebacher hoch is really sight Studebacher hoch, he does it night Studebacher hoch, he treats the 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 be a narc Or a marine Or he might dirty He's over old ... I know His attire And the flies he leading him on ''cause is gone keep leading him on ''cause is gone And the she's on
And speaking of mountains - - we'll join studebacher hoch on the edge of billy the mountain's mouth .. it away! ...
"ah ... ya, ya, ya, hey-ah, billy, ... I've come 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 ethel just shook her twigs angrily. but studebacher hoch, calm, cool, and unperturbed, continued:
"ya, well listen ... listen you communist sonofabitch ... you get your ass down there for your 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 there will wind up disguised as of brooms, primative ironing boards or a dog house ... get the ( cough, cough) get the picture? "
Ya, well billy just
"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 when the giant mountain laughed ... studebacher hoch lost his footing and fell screaming, two hundr Et into the below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm gonna need a truss ...")
Ah listen, that goes to show you And it'l show you once that A mountain is you don't wanna fuck with You don't wanna with Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't with billy, no And don't with ethel You saw just happened To the guy the flies
Don't around Don't fuck Don't fuck Don't around fuck around Don't fuck fuck around With biddilly, the mountain
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to this is where we take our intermission. We will see you in a few Thank you, be back.