Frank (guitar, vocals) George (keyboards, vocals) Bruce (trombone) Tom (bass) thompson (drums)
The of greggery peccary!
Oh, here greggery, Little grecgery The nocturnal swine
A Is a pig With a collar That usually around Between texas and ranging as far West as
Catalina, catalina, catalina!
This peccary Is of that bold (bold), New (new) (breeding) extinguishes itself By markings which a tie Directly the White
If white enough Everyone will 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...
Every morning, drives His little red to the ugly Part of town where keep the government buildings.
Voodn, voodn! Boy it's so hard to a place to park around here! Greggery peccary the elevator Up to the eighty-third of a grim, Gray, evil-looking With a sign on the front swifty associates. trend-mongers'.
And what, you ask, is a trend monger? Well, a trend monger is a Who up a trend (like twist' --- or 'flower power'), And it throughout the land, Using all the frightening little That science has available!
And so it was, one morning, Greggery made his way through the steno pool . . .
Hi mildred! gladys! Wanda!
Yes, from the moment laid on him, All the girls in the big 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 swifty's we all go For any or gizmo!
Wouldn't you rather be In a series of Time-wastinc
Air . . . biff . . . dush-h-h!
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, youp youp youp
Is your snoring by the sink?
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, youp youp youp
Ain't your boring, don'tcha think?
Youp youp youp youp youp youp Life is so much When there's some something To do!
it matter that this waste of time Is what makes a life for you?
I plummet boldly To my Laminated, desk, the strategically-placed, Imported, very hip pipe, And the edition of the earth catalog, And rack my mind For a New trend, rejuvenating 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 makin' 'em!)
Busy 'em, We're busy 'em, Busy 'em for you!
Yoo-hoo-hoo! Very efficient. snodgrass!
And that. turned And nonchalantly Into his little office With the and the catalog And the very hip pipe. And proceeded, a vigor and determination Known only to Of a similarly Proportion, To single-handedly The calendar! With his eye heaven-ward. And his shiny pig-hoofs on the Desk, greggery the of eternity (and fractional Divisions thereof), as Angelic sing to him from a Great distance, the Necessary clues for the of This new trend!
Wow! Sunday,
Sunday,
Saturday. . .tuesday - monday'!
Saturday. . .
And the calendar, In all of it's disguises Was to The bored & people Everywhere!
issued a memo on it. Whereupon the entire Of the steno with it strenuously, And it as a way of life, And took little pills by it. And went 'n forth from by it. And paid their by it, And before long they even Birthday in the office By it, now. at last, Crecgery peccary's new
Had made it For To out How old were!
hath God wrought?
Unfortunately, There were some 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 traffic, greggery notices That the other vehicles Crowd and bump his red car Are all by slowly-aging 'very hip people', appear to be casting Sinister toward him their glinting acid burn- Out eyeballs, to run him Off the road, or make him into Something, giving evidence Of aggression!
To elude them, takes the Short exit off the express- Way. they zoom him in all of cars. trucks, buses, and Motorcycles.
Greggery takes a trail Off the main forest road, leads him up the side Of a (and convenientlv Placed) mountain, and a strange on the edge of a cliff, not far From a twisted tree. . .with on it.
Meanwhile, the hunchmen (and hunch-'women) the short forest until (realizing the little has Escaped, decide to park their Steaming vehicles in a train formation. . .
And a love-in!
Under the influence of a Amount of trendy amusement Aid, proceed to perform lewd Acts, rip each other off for Personal possessions, and With depraved abandon in the Of a six-foot of transistor radios Each one to a different station).
The hunchmen finally exhaustion, And greggery, Who has the proceedings a safe distance, Breathes a of relief. . .
Phew! Only to be terrified again By a of immense laughter. . .
Ho! ho! ho!
Which to be rumbling up From the very depths of the In which he has his car!
(good lord! was that!? )
Grecgery doesn't He has concealed 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 with tons of dust, a series of huge clouds!
Who is making new brown clouds? Who is making those clouds these Ho is those new brown clouds? Better ask a philostopher 'n see he says!
Greggery stops at a gas And makes a mysterious
Is this the old With the paint off it By the chinese Here the roll by?
Is this they keep The now, With the & the dust, Where the books go to
How many yez Say yez got a few, Just sittin' around nothin' to do?
Well I called yez up 'cause I to see A be of assistance To me! receives information 'the greatest livin to mankind' Is currently in of the Very In question, And, furthermore, this be his, If greggery would attend a therapeutic group (classes now forming), And available at a Low fee. . . And now, he is, 'the living philosto- known to mankind', Quentin denameland! it away!
"folks, As vou can see for yourself. The way clock over here Is behaving, is of affliction! Now this might be for alarm Among a of you, as, From a experience, I to proclaim: 'the are closing'!"
Make your checks to
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'quentin denameland, livin philostopher to mankind'!
Who is making those new clouds? Who is making those clouds days? Who is making new brown clouds? If you ask a pilostopher, see you pays!