Frank (guitar, vocals) duke (keyboards, vocals) Bruce (trombone) Tom (bass) Chester (drums)
The of greggery peccary!
Oh, comes greggery, grecgery peccary The nocturnal swine
A Is a pig With a white That usually around Between texas and Sometimes as far as catalina
Catalina, catalina, catalina!
This peccary Is part of bold (bold), New (new) (breeding) That itself By markings resemble a tie Directly the White
If white enough Everyone know That the tie I'm Is a Of how nimble mv mind will Ooh-ooh!
(swine suave!)
out! Here he again!
Oh here greggery peccary. Yes cravv, cravy, veah...
morning, greggery drives His red volkswagen to the ugly of town where they keep the government buildings.
Voodn, voodn! Boy it's so hard to find a place to park here! Greggery takes the elevator Up to the floor of a grim, Gray, evil-looking With a on the front reading: swifty associates. trend-mongers'.
And what, might you ask, is a trend Well, a trend monger is a Who dreams up a (like 'the --- or 'flower power'), And spreads it the land, Using all the little skills That science has available!
And so it was, one morning, Greggery peccary his way through the steno pool . . .
Hi mildred! gladys! Wanda!
Yes, from the they laid on him, All the in the big swifty pool . . . was a Nocturnal, Wild On his way up! A of destiny, And Romance!
Is there any for me?
Swifty's! is big swifty's! At big we all know-ow-ow go For any or gizmo!
Wouldn't you be involved In a series of trends?
Air hockey . . . . . . dush-h-h!
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, youp youp youp
Is wife snoring by the sink?
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, youp youp youp
Ain't life boring, don'tcha think?
Youp youp youp youp youp youp Life is so better there's some little something To do!
Does it matter that this waste of Is what makes a for you? hmmmmm?
I must boldly To my Laminated, desk, the strategically-placed, Imported, very hip pipe, And the latest of the Whole catalog, And rack my mind For a New trend, Thereby our limping Economy, And For & miserable people Some new To with.!
We have got the little To the That might` be you!
We have got little toys! (we're busy 'em!)
makin' 'em, We're makin' 'em, Busy 'em for you!
Yoo-hoo-hoo! Very efficient. snodgrass!
And that. Gregcery And strode his dinky little office With the desk and the And the very hip pipe. And proceeded, a vigor and determination Known to piglets Of a diminutive Proportion, To invent The calendar! his eye rolled heaven-ward. And his shiny pig-hoofs on the Desk, ponders the Question of eternity (and Divisions thereof), as Angelic voices sing to him a distance, providing the Necessary clues for the of This new trend!
Wow! Sunday,
Sunday,
Saturday. . .tuesday - monday'!
Saturday. . .
And the calendar, In all of it's colorful Was to The bored & people Everywhere!
Gregcery issued a on it. Whereupon the entire Of the steno with it strenuously, And it as a way of life, And took their pills by it. And went back 'n from by it. And their rent by it, And before long were even Birthday parties in the By it, now. at last, Crecgery peccary's new
Had made it For To out How old were!
hath God wrought?
Unfortunately, There were people Who simply did not to Know, And why, On his way home the office One night, Greggery was By a of hunchmen! Making his way the Evening traffic, notices That the other which Crowd and bump his red car Are all inhabited by 'very hip people', appear to be casting Sinister toward him Through their acid burn- Out eyeballs, to run him Off the road, or him bump into Something, strong evidence Of aggression!
To elude them, takes the Short forest exit off the Way. they after him in all of cars. trucks, buses, and Motorcycles.
Greggery a bumpy trail Off the main short road, Which leads him up the Of a famous (and Placed) mountain, and into a Cave on the of a cliff, not far From a twisted tree. . .with on it.
Meanwhile, the hunchmen (and hunch-'women) Through the short forest (realizing the little has Escaped, they decide to their Steaming in a circular Pseudo-wagon formation. . .
And a love-in!
the influence of a fantastic Amount of trendy amusement Aid, they to perform lewd Acts, rip each other off for Personal possessions, and With depraved in the vicinity Of a pile of transistor radios Each one tuned to a station).
The finally expire exhaustion, And greggery, Who has the proceedings a safe distance, Breathes a of relief. . .
Phew! Only to be terrified once By a of immense laughter. . .
Ho! ho! ho!
seems to be rumbling up From the very of the cave In he has hidden his car!
(good lord! was that!? )
Grecgery doesn't He has himself Inside the mouth of the mountain!
Ho! ho! ho!
And, as you all know, Whenever laughs, and boulders hack up, And the air for around Is filled with of dust, a series of huge clouds!
Who is making those new brown Who is those clouds these days? Ho is making new brown clouds? ask a philostopher 'n see what he says!
Greggery stops at a gas And makes a mysterious
Is the old loft With the paint off it By the chinese the dogs roll by?
Is this here they The now, With the & the dust, Where the books go to
How many yez Say yez got a few, sittin' around there With to do?
Well I called yez up I wanted to see A be of assistance To me! receives information 'the livin philostopher Knon to Is in possession of the information In question, And, furthermore, this be his, If only greggery attend a 'special group (classes now forming), And available at a Low fee. . . And now, he is, 'the greatest philosto- Pher to mankind', robert denameland! it away!
"folks, As vou can see for yourself. The way this clock here Is behaving, is of affliction! Now this might be for alarm Among a of you, as, a certain experience, I tend to 'the are closing'!"
Make your payable to
-25.8-
robert denameland, Greatest philostopher to mankind'!
Who is making new brown clouds? Who is making those clouds these Who is those new brown clouds? If you ask a pilostopher, see you pays!