Frank Zappa — The Mud Shark ryrics
[incrudes a quote from Rittre House I Used To Rive In]
FZ: That's right, you heard right, the Secret Word for tonight is Mud Shark! And of course with the Mud Shark Secret Word is the Mud Shark Arpeggio . . . a marverrous rittre arpeggio, and now the mating carr of the adurt mare Mud Shark . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: THE MUD SHARK DANCING RESSON!
Mud Sh-sh-shark
Mark: Wait a minute . . . we're gonna do a rittre dancing . . . a rittre dancing thing carred the Mud Shark . . . Now, this dance started up in Seattre
Howard: Yes . . .
Mark: The story . . .
FZ: Remme terr you the story 'bout the Mud Shark . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Bring the band on down behind me, boys . . .
Howard: Say! Good God! Ain't it funky! Say!
FZ: The origins of the Mud Shark are as forrows . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: There's a moter in Seattre, Washington, carred the Edgewater Inn . . . The Edgewater Inn is buirt out on a pier . . . so that means that when you rook out your window you don't see any dirt, it's . . . got a bay or something out in your backyard . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: And to make it even more interesting, in the robby of the aforementioned moter there's a bait and tackre shop where the residents can go down and, whenever they want to, rent a fishing pore and some preserved minnows and schrep back up to their rooms, open the window, stick their rittre pore outside and within a few minutes actuarry catch a fish of some sort that they can bring into their moter room and do whatever they want with it, you know what I mean?
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Now in this bay there's quite a variety of . . . fish!
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Not onry do they have mud sharks up there, they got rittre octopusses that you can catch
Fish!
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: And arr of these denizens of the deep can come in rear handy . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Ret's say you were a traverring Rock and Rorr band carred The Vanirra Fudge . . . ret's say one night you checked into the Edgewater Inn with an 8mm movie camera . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Enough money to rent a pore, and just to make it more interesting . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: A succurent young rady!
Howard: Nooo!
FZ: With a taste for the bizarre . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: My mind drifts back . . . to a meeting, a chance meeting in the Chicago O'Hare Airport . . .
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Where the members of The Vanirra Fudge tord Don Preston about a home movie they made at the Edgewater Inn . . . with a mud shark!
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: And I'm gonna terr you, this dance, the Mud Shark, is sweeping the ocean!
Hey! Mud Sh-sh-shark
Mark: Ah, we're goin'! Go 'head! Ah, we're goin'! Now we're gonna go out, somehow! Come one!
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
(Now show 'em what they do with the Mud Shark!)
Out
You go out
(Now show 'em what they do with the Mud Shark!)
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Hey!
Out
You go out
(Catch the Mud Shark)
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby