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- From: ndr@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov (Niles D. Ritter)
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- Subject: Firesign Theatre: Lyrics to Songs
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- Summary: This posting contains a list of lyrics to songs
- written or composed by the Firesign Theatre.
- Keywords: firesign,comedy,faq,bozo
- Originator: ndr@jane
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- Side 3) Firesign Theatre: Lyrics to Songs
-
- @ALBUM: I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus
-
- @SONG: Back from the Shadows, again
- -------------------------------------------------
- (Sung to the tune of "Back in the Saddle, again")
-
- The Whisperin' Squash[singing]:
-
- Back from the Shadows again !
- Out where an In-jun's your friend!
- Where the veg'tables are green,
- And you can pee into the stream!
- Yes, we're back from the Shadows again!
-
- Reprise (Whisperin' with others):
- We're goin' back to the Shadows again !
- Out where an Indian's your friend!
- Where the vegetables are green,
- And you can pee right into the stream!
- (And that's important!)
- We're back from the Shadows again!
-
-
- @ALBUM: TV or Not TV
-
- @SONG: Rat in a box
- ------------------------------------------------------
- (Also heard on the Nick Danger "Yolks" video)
-
- Intro:
-
- When you can't stand the pace
- In the Big Rodent Race
- 'Come on in where it's safe
- Where the menu is tref... ###- "tref" means "non-kosher"
-
- There's a smell in the air
- that reminds you of hair
- You've got something to get
- and it looks like your pet!
-
- (aren't you hungry ?)
-
- First we take some rat parts
- and fry them up real nice..
-
- Then we skin the kitties,
- and barbeque the mice!
-
- Bridge:
-
- Guts in a Cup! (Yum!)
- Mouse on a Stick! (Wow!)
- French-fried Fleas
- and Beer-battered Ticks!
-
- Chorus:
-
- Ra-aaat in a box...
- (We fry what you won't--)
- Ra-aaat in a box...
- (We fry what you won't--)
- Ra-aaat in a box...
- (We fry what you won't...TOUCH!)
-
-
-
-
- @ALBUM: Not Insane!
-
- @SONG: Papoon for President!
- ----------------------
- Papoon, Papoon for President!
- There is no one to Blame!
- Papoon for our chief President!
- You Know He's not Insane!
-
- @ALBUM: Hemlock Stones: The Giant Rat of Sumatra
-
- @SONG: Frigate Matilda
- -------------------------
- Frigate Matilda! Frigate Matilda!
- Won't you come frig in the riggin' with me?
- Oh we swung from the bunk and bunged
- another cabin boy!
- Won't you frig old Matilda with me!
-
-
-
- @ALBUM: How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At
- all?
- @SONG: I can tell by the pie on your tie
- ---------------------------------
- I can tell by the pie on your tie
- you're an American, well so am I!
- Hi bub, How are ya? How do ya' do?
- And while we're on the subject...
- And while we're on the subject...
- (And while we're on the subject)
- How's your old Wazoo ?!
-
- @SONG: I was born.....an American!
- ---------------------------
- I was born.....an American!
- I was raised...an American!
- And I'll die...an American!
- In America,with Armenians!
-
- @SONG: A little song I learned upstream in prison one day
- --------------------------------------------------
- This land is made of mountains,
- This land is made of mud,
- This land has lots of everything
- For me and Elmer Fudd.
- This land has lots of trouser,
- This land has lots of mausers,
- And pussy cats to eat them
- when the sun goes down!
-
-
- @SONG: What makes America Great?
- -------------------------------------------------
- It's candied apples and ponies with dapples
- you can ride all day!
- It's girls with pimples
- And cripples with dimples
- that just wont go away !
- Its spics and wops and niggers and kikes
- with noses as long as your arm!
- Its micks and chinks and gooks and geeks
- and honkies
- (Honk! Honk!)
- who never left the farm !
-
- @SONG: Yankee Doodle Came To Terms
- ---------------------------------------
-
- Yankee Doodle came to terms,
- Writing Martin Buber.
- Stuck a Fuehrer in our back,
- And called it Shicklegruber!
- [trumpet plays "retreat"]
-
-
- @SONG: Pick A Bale O' Dacron
- --------------------------------
-
- You gotta jump down, spin around! (Huhn!)
- And pick a bale o' Dacron
- You gotta jump down, spin around!
- And pick some Nylon, too!
- [whipcrack] Agggh...!
-
- @SONG: Loostners Castor-Oil Flakes
- --------------------------------------
- Oh, it ain't no use
- If you ain't got the boost
- The boost you get from
- Loostners
- (Loo-ooo-oosnters)
-
-
- @ALBUM: Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers
- @SONG: The Rough-As-A-Cob March
- -------------------------------------------
-
- (source: From "Big Book of Plays", page 62-63)
-
- Choir: We're marching, marching to Shibboleth,
- With the Eagle and the Sword!
- We're praising Zion 'til her death,
- Until we meet our last reward!
- Men: Our Lord's reward!
- Women: Zion! Oh happy Zion!
- O'er wrapp'd, but not detained!
- Men: Lion, f'rocious Lion!
- His beard our mighty mane!
- Women: At First and Main!
- Men: Oh, we;ll go marching, marching to Omaha,
- With the Buckram and the Cord!
- Women: You'll hear us "boom" our State!
- Men: Ha, ha! As we cross the final ford!
- Women: The flaming Ford!
- Choir: Zion! Oh mighty Zion!
- Your bison now are dust!
- As your cornflakes rise
- "Gainst the rust-red skies,
- Then our blood requires us must
- Go ...
- Men: Marching, marching to Shibboleth,
- With the Eagle and the ...
- Women: The Buckram and the Cord!
- Men: Sword! Praising Zion 'til her death!
- Women: Ha, ha!
- Men: Until we eat our last reward!
- Women: The flaming Ford!
- Choir: Zion! Oh righteous Zion!
- There is no one to blame!
- For the homespun pies
- 'Neath the cracking skies
- Shall release the fulsome rain!
- Tenor: Shall release!
- Men: Shall release!
- Soprano: Shall release!
- Women: Shall release!
- Choir: Shall release the vinyl rein!
-
-
- @SONG: Peorgie's Song
- ---------------
- (Android Sisters:)
- Porgy Tirebiter!
- He's a spy and a girl delighter,
- Orgie Firefighter!
- He's just a student like you.
-
- If you're looking for a Captain of the Ringball Team,
- You can bet he won't be there.
- You'll find him pa-popping off at Pop's Sodium Shoppe,
- Tr-trailing a red,<tweet,tweet!> with red hair.
- Doobie doo-wah...
- Porgy Tirebiter!
- Just a student like you!
- (PORGY:) "Like me?!"
- Just a student like you!
- (Father:) "Stop singing and finish your homework !"
- Just a student like you! ooooooooooo..."
-
-
- @SONG: We're bringing the war back home
- ----------------------------------
- We're bringing the war back home
- Where it ought to have been before!
- We'll kill all the bees
- And spiders and flies
- And we wont play in iceboxes lying on their sides
- We'll wash our hands after wee-wee.
- And if we're a girl, before!
- And we'll march,march,march, et cetera!
- 'Til we never do march no more!
- (All together, now, boys!)
- We're bringing the war back home
- Where it ought to have been before!
- The pretty donut girl on the corner
- Will be smilin' with a wringer in her hair!
- We'll wash our hands after wee-wee,
- And if we're a girl before!
- And we'll march, march, march, et cetera!
- 'Till we don't have to march no more
- (Hum along now...)
- We won't have to March!
- We won't have to March!
- We won't have to March no more!
-
-
- -------------------------- End Side 3 ------------------------
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-