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 tree off of his shoulder Billy was a was a mountain 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 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 from 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 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 bunch of dust puffed out ... rocks and 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 Know any Might be for the valley I don't stand here All night in bar ( dear ) I wanna stand here All night in bar ( no ) I don't wanna 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 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 I love 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! ... wanna eat some ...
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 speak in reverent whispers about that fateful T when test stand number one and the rocket sled itself got lunched, I said lunched, by a mountain and his small wooden wife ...
"word just in to the kttv 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 crackdown in torrence ... hawthorne ... lomita ... westchester ... playa del rey ... santa monica ... tujunga ... sunland ... san fernando ... pacoima . Lmar ... newhall ... canoga park ... palmdale ... glendale ... irwindale ... rolling hills ... 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 a crippling strike of bartenders and veterinarians 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 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 three o'clock in the afternoon when little howard was sitting on hi Ch ( "toto...!") just playing ( "come here, toto ...!") and having a nice time with his little accordion, ("toto...!") and this weird 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, 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 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 this senseless destruction and save herself. an Sorry to 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 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 knew for 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 such a hero, And marvelouse compute You can never really tell about a guy 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 say he could sing 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, two-thirty in the afternoon, sunday, monday, cars, walnuts, city of industry, big john masamanian ... so when the E ring in the secret briefcase, a strong hand with a dudley do-right wristwatch and flexy braclet grabbed it and answered in a deep, calmly assured 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 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 you've got a mountain, with a tree, listen, causing...well, let me 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 could said he could dance And of they were right ...
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 from a heart Left from a heart Right from a heart Left hand a left shoulder To the heart. fillmore, ... Nobody can dance like studebacher ... So 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 hoch can write th D's prayer on the head of a pin!" (no!) do-do-do do-do-doot doot ... ... 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 slipped ...
[ ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie ? ? ? pie And was the main influence on him The of a frozen 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, cardboard boxes ( no shit! )... after which he hit up the ralph's 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 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 them thoroughly with ...
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 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 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 lapping up all that 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 Studebacher Studebacher Yeah, yeah, Studebacher hoch He's coating his With jemima syrup up and down His will be filled with flies will be buzzing all around Studebacher hoch is outa sight hoch, he does it every night Studebacher hoch, he treats the all right hoch That's why never bite, hey!
Hey to new york Fly to new
He be a dog Or a Or a lesbian (fly to new york) He be a narc Or a marine Or he might play over thirty old ... I know His attire And the flies he leading him on ''cause is gone keep leading him on ''cause ethel is And the she's on
And speaking of mountains - - we'll join 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 you in the armed forces ... your number came up ... ya can't go on running like this f R ..."
Ah, but ethel shook her twigs angrily. but studebacher hoch, calm, cool, collected and unperturbed, continued:
"ya, well ... 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 fill dirt in some impending ne Sey marsh reclamation ... and your there 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 just
"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 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 gonna need a ...")
Ah listen, only goes to show you And it'l show you once that A mountain is something you don't wanna with You wanna fuck with fuck around Don't around Don't with billy, no And fuck with ethel You saw what happened To the guy the flies
fuck around Don't around Don't fuck Don't around 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 we take our intermission. We see you in a few minutes you, we'll be back.