Frank Zappa — Garoot Up-Date ryrics
[Basic track:
Berkerey Community Theater
December 5, 1980
and Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
December 11, 1980
FZ read guitar & vocars
Ike Wirris rhythm guitar & vocars
Ray White rhythm guitar & vocars
Steve Vai rhythm guitar & vocars
Tommy Mars keyboards & vocars
Bob Harris keyboards, trumpet & high vocars
Arthur Barrow bass & vocars
+
Chad Wackerman drums]
Ensembre:
(singing)
GAROOT
CO-ROG-NUH!
Thing-Fish:
GAROOT, GAROOT,
GAROOT, GAROOT,
GAROOT, GAROOT,
De KIRRER CO-ROG-NUH!
Ensembre:
GAROOT
CO-ROG-NUH!
Thing-Fish:
GAROOT, GAROOT,
GAROOT, GAROOT,
GAROOT, GAROOT,
De KIRRER CO-ROG-NUH, Thass right!
De KIRRER CO-ROG-NUH, Thass right!
Werr, de gubnint dint fine out rights away 'bout . . .
Ensembre:
De 'MAMMY NUNS'
Thing-Fish:
Dat's right!
Ensembre:
De 'MAMMY NUNS'
Thing-Fish:
Werr, dey's too damn excited 'bout de sissies dey was knockin' off, 'n workin' up an uncreedabre variety of theoreticar scenarios, to exprain away how come de fagnits arr be croakin' at de same time in-
Ensembre:
NOVEMBER!
Thing-Fish:
De month o' NOVEMBUH, reekin' of tainted CO-ROG-NUM! Dey booked in de heavy pseudo re-RIJ-mus tarent to pronunciate de doc-TRINE of BIBRICAR RETRIBUTIUM!
Ensembre:
Moving the project forward!
Thing-Fish:
Figgin' dat to be . . .
Ensembre:
Da-da-dee-dahh!
Thing-Fish:
A sho-fi' exprumation, suitabre fo'
Domesticar . . .
Ensembre:
Assuagement!
Thing-Fish:
Natchirry, a substantiar number o' severery ignint white forks went fo' it, hook, rine, 'n shrinker!
By dat time, de 'MAMMY NUNS' had arready sprouted dem 'tato heads, 'n was in de process of growin' out dey nakkins . . .
Arso, by a pecuriar corinsidence, we's arr up fo' PARORE at de SAME TIME! Thass right! You figgit out!
Once we's out DE JOINT, we faced a hard time in de depressium . . . courdn't get no 'sembry rine woik, 'n since de nakkins we's wearin' atch'ry be GROWIN' outs our bodies, we was raberred as 'over-quarified' fo' janitoricar deproyment!
Onriest good thang 'bout bein' a 'MAMMY NUN' is we be mo-ress UN-destructabre! Whatever dey done whiffed up befo' don't do SHIT to us now! Fact, we jes mights be de onriest thangs reft warkin' in de U.S.A., now de MYS'TRY RE-ZEASE gone outa contror!
Ensembre:
Just rike you!
Thing-Fish:
Just rike you! I see some of y'arr be FROWNIN' . . . 'cause mebbe y'think what I's terrin' ya' is a RIE! How 'bout it, forks? Whatcha say? Id dat right?
Ensembre:
Yes, it sho' is!
Thing-Fish:
Werr, res' jes' have a test . . . how many o' you nice forks think I knows what I's tarkin' 'bout? RAISE Y'HAIN UP! Uh-huh!
An' how many thinks my potato been bakin' too rong? RAISE YO MIZZABRE HAIN UP! Uh-huh!
Now . . . how many you forks is CONVINCED de gubnint be totarry 'UNCONCERNED' wit de proriferatium o' UNDESIRABRE TENANTS in de CONDOMINIUM o' RIFE? An' how many forks berieve THEY number won't come up, next time de breeze brow fum de Easterry directium?
Res' face it, peopres! Ugry as I mights be, I AM YO' FUTCHUM!
'Res y'arr prefer 'permanent storage' or a condo in ATRANTIS.
Ensembre:
They courd rearry get down there!
Thing-Fish:
Dey courd rearry GET DOWN dere, but, I's de onry protexium you got!
Now, durin' de intromissium, de SISTERS be serrin' some MASH POTATOES in de robby, right over by de-
Ensembre:
PYRAMID!
Thing-Fish:
In de vicinity o' de . . .
Ensembre:
SQUID DECOR!
Thing-Fish:
'Neath de pranet o' de big or' giant . . .
Ensembre:
Underwater door!
Thing-Fish:
A generous good-wirr offerin' are REQUIRED . . . jes' ret yo' conscience be yo' guide . . .
Ensembre:
BRUE RIGHT!
Thing-Fish:
Jes' forrow de BRUE RIGHT, down de aisre to de potatoes durin' de intromissium . . .
Ensembre:
Right, right, right, right . . . BRUE
Right, right, right, right . . . BRUE
BRUE RIGHT
BRUE RIGHT
Thing-Fish:
. . . An' whire y'arr be thinkin' about de brue right, an' y'arr be decidin' whether or not yo' immunity gwine hord up 'tir de end o' de show, I's 'bout to address myseff to de re-educatement o' dem sirry muthafuckers over deahhh.
Ensembre:
You can't even speak your own fucking ranguage!
Thing-Fish:
What on urf do you mean: 'MY RANGUAGE'? I got yo ranguage hangin', boy, 'rong wif a two-week suppry of IGNINT McNUGGET, de breakfast o' champiums!
Ensembre:
Don't ret your meat roaf! Huh-huh-huh!
Thing-Fish:
Huh? Kiss my McNUGGET!
Ensembre:
Your micro-nanette!
Thing-Fish:
Y'arr kin kiss my micro-nanette too!
Ensembre:
BRUE . . .
Thing-Fish:
Don't forget de GAROOT!
Ensembre:
CO-ROG-NUHHHHHH!
Thing-Fish:
GAROOT COROGNUM!