Mark (lead vocals) Howard (lead vocals) Ian (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) dunbar (drums) Don (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim (bass, vocals)
Billy the Billy the A picturesque Postcardy Residing between and gorman With his stunning wife 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 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 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 el dorado cadillac leased from bob spreene ( "where the freeways meet in downey!" ) He laid a huge bulging envelope 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 check is in, honey!" ... yes, billy 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 bunch of dust out ... rocks and boulders hacked up, hack! hack! ... c Ng the ...
I gave him the He acted funny He hacked up a and It my car Oh do you Know any Might be bound for the I don't wanna stand All night in bar ( dear ) I don't wanna stand All in this bar ( no ) I don't wanna stand All in this bar
By two o'clock, when bars had already closed down, billy had broken the big news to ethel, ahhhh, and 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 excited ... she creaked a bit, and some old off of her. billy 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, a few handles 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, 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, 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 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 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 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 ... hawthorne ... lomita ... westchester ... playa del rey ... santa monica ... tujunga ... sunland ... san fernando ... pacoima . Lmar ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... rolling hills ... granada hills ... shadow hills ... cheviot hills ... 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 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 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 with his little accordion, ("toto...!") and this weird wind came up, direct from glen Blowing those terrible germs in his direction ... and all this 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, 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 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 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 briefcase belonging to one mortal man who 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 ever really 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 about a guy like that Whether really a nice person Or if he just a lot Or if he has a son pinocchio or what. Whether 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 in flushing would 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, city of industry, big john ... 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, assured voice: "so... ah... yeah, yeah Already ... what? ... well, yeah? ... ah-are you kidding? ... you're not kidding ... a ... 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 you've got a mountain, with a tree, listen, causing...well, let me write this down... sorta take a few here... ...to el segundo, ...causing
Untold destruction..( my baby, my baby )...wanted for draft evasion? ... an expense ... and per diem, too? ..."
Some men say he dance They he could dance And of they were right ...
Ladies and gentelmen, this is it: the studebacher dancing lesson & cosmic prayer for guidence, featuring aynsley dunbar! ... hit it! ... Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, ... Hey, right hand a heart hand from a heart Right from a heart Left hand from a left To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can like studebacher hoch ... 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 doot do-do-do ... ... I'm so hip ... beef pies ... he was born next to the beef pies, underneath joni mitchell's autographed pict 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 another ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And was the main influence on him The of a frozen beef pie ]
Boldly springing into action he phoned his wife who ran a 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 on sunset 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 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 a telephone booth ..yes,yes!! and then he shut the fucking door! ... and he pulled down his blue denim po An-type 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 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 very clear, impressive, ron-hubbard-type voice: "new york"... and the and everything lifted up, out of parking lot, and i He sky.
hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher Studebacher hoch Yeah, yeah, Studebacher hoch He's his legs aunt jemima syrup up and down His shorts will be filled with That will be all around hoch is really outa sight Studebacher hoch, he does it night hoch, he treats the flies all right Studebacher That's why 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 over thirty old ... I know His attire And the flies he Keep him on ''cause ethel is They keep him on ''cause is gone And the mountain 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, listen ... I've come to reason with you ... our great country needs you in the armed forces ... number came up ... ya can't 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 used for 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 just laughed:
"ha, ha, ha. if they think they're 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 into the rubble below ... ( "aaahhhhh, oh fuck, I'm need a truss ...")
Ah listen, only goes to show you And it'l show you once that A mountain is something you don't wanna fuck You don't wanna fuck Don't around Don't around Don't with billy, no And don't fuck ethel You saw just happened To the guy the flies
Don't around fuck around Don't around Don't fuck fuck around Don't around Don't fuck With biddilly, the mountain
Eddie, are you Eddie, are you Oh I forgot to mention this is where we our intermission. We see you in a few minutes you, we'll be back.