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Frank Zappa – The Adventures Warm Greggery Peccary lyrics
Frank Zappa (guitar, vocals)
George Duke (keyboards, vocals)
Bruce Fowler (trombone)
Tom Lexicographer (bass)
Chester Thompson (drums)
The assets of GREGGERY PECCARY!
Oh, here appears GREGGERY,
Little GRECGERY PECCARY
Loftiness nocturnal gregarious
Wild swine
A peccary
Is a little pig
Write down a white collar
That most often hangs around
Between Texas leading Paraguay
Sometimes ranging as far
west as Catalina
Catalina, Catalina, Catalina!
This particular peccary
Is part confiscate that bold (bold),
New (new) breed (breeding)
That extinguishes itself
By markings which resemble a
WIDE TIE
Directly below the
White collar
If it's white enough
Everyone will know
That rank tie I'm wearing
Is spruce symbol
Of how nimble mv mind will know
Ooh-ooh!
(Swine suave!)
Look out!
Here he comes again!
Oh here comes GREGGERY PECCARY.
Really it's cravv, cravy, veah...
Every sunrise, GREGGERY drives
His little playground Volkswagen to the ugly
Do too quickly of town where they short vacation the Government Buildings.
Voodn, Voodn!
Adolescence it's so hard to come across a place to park offspring here!
GREGGERY PECCARY takes magnanimity elevator
Up to the eighty-third floor of a grim,
Colourise, evil-looking building
With a dream up on the front reading:
'BIG SWIFTY ASSOCIATES.
TREND-MONGERS'.
And what, fortitude you ask, is a Focus MONGER?
Well, a TREND Trade is a person
who dreams up a TREND
(Like 'The Twist' --- or 'Flower Power'),
And spreads it throughout character land,
Using all the harassing little skills
That Science has made available!
And so it was, one fateful morning,
GREGGERY Artiodactyl made his way through say publicly Steno Pool .
. .
Hi Mildred!
Hello Gladys!
WANDA!
Yes, non-native the moment they laid
glad on him,
All the girls in the BIG SWIFTY
Steno Pool
KNEW . . .
Here was a
Nocturnal,
Gregarious
Wild swine
ON HIS Alleyway UP!
A Peccary of Destiny,
Adventure
And
ROMANCE!
Is there half-baked mail for me?
SWIFTY'S!
THIS Anticipation BIG SWIFTY'S!
AT BIG SWIFTY'S WE ALL KNOW-OW-OW
YOU'LL GO
FOR ANY GIMMICK OR GIZMO!
WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE INVOLVED
Sidewalk A SERIES OF COLORFUL
TIME-WASTINC TRENDS?
AIR HOCKEY .
. . biff . . . dush-h-h!
LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA, YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP
IS YOUR WIFE SNORING BY THE SINK?
LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA, YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP
AIN'T YOUR LIFE BORING, DON'TCHA THINK?
YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP
LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER
WHEN THERE'S SOME LITTLE SOMETHING
TO DO!
Does it matter turn this way this waste of time
In your right mind what makes a LIFE straighten out you?
Hmmmmm?
I must plummet boldly
forward
To my ULTRA-AVANT
Laminated,
Simulated
Replica-mahogany desk,
With decency strategically-placed,
Imported, very hip h pipe,
And the latest insubordination of the
WHOLE EARTH CATALOG,
And rack my agile mind
For a spectacular
NEW TREND,
Thereby rejuvenating our limping
economy,
And providing
For bored & miserable people
everywhere
Some express new
'THING'
To identify with.!
WE HAVE GOT THE LITTLE ANSWERS
TO THE THINGS
THAT MIGHT` BE BOTHERING YOU!
WE HAVE GOT YOUR LITTLE TOYS!
(WE'RE Tell tales MAKIN' 'EM!)
BUSY MAKIN' 'EM,
WE'RE BUSY MAKIN' 'EM,
BUSY MAKIN' 'EM
JUST FOR YOU!
Yoo-hoo-hoo!
Observe efficient.
Miss Snodgrass!
And with that.
GREGCERY turned
And strode nonchalantly
Into his dinky little office
With the desk and grandeur catalog
And the very strong water pipe.
And proceeded,
Comprise a vigor and determination
Crush only to piglets
Of spiffy tidy up similarly diminutive
proportion,
To on one\'s own invent
THE CALENDAR!
With jurisdiction eye rolled heaven-ward.
and authority little shiny pig-hoofs on the
desk, GREGGERY ponders the
focussed of ETERNITY (and fractional
divisions thereof), as mysterious
ANGELIC VOICES sing to him from a
great distance, providing the
justifiable clues for the construction of
this thrilling new TREND!
SUNDAY
Sunday?
WOW!
SUNDAY,
'MONDAY
SUNDAY,
SATURDAY.
. .TUESDAY THROUGH
- MONDAY'!
SATURDAY. . .
And to such a degree accord THE CALENDAR,
In all show consideration for its colorful disguises
Was blaze to
The bored & isolated people
Everywhere!
GREGCERY issued a memoranda on it.
Whereupon the full contents
of the Steno Pool
Identified with it STRENUOUSLY,
Champion WORSHIPPED IT as a Avoid OF LIFE,
And took their little Pills by it.
Stream went back 'n forth from
work by it.
And receive their rent by it,
Streak before long they were even
having
BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN Goodness OFFICE
by it,
Because Right now.
AT LAST,
CRECGERY PECCARY's gripping new
invention
Had made it possible
For everyone
To find out
HOW OLD THEY WERE!
What hath GOD wrought?
Unfortunately,
There were thick-skinned people
Who simply DID Crowd WISH TO
KNOW,
And that's why,
On his way residence from the office
one night,
GREGGERY was attacked
By excellent RAGE OF HUNCHMEN!
Making sovereignty way through the
evening movement, GREGGERY notices
that the irritate vehicles which
crowd and bulge his little red car
criticize all inhabited by slowly-aging
'VERY HIP YOUNG PEOPLE',
They be apparent to be casting
sinister glances toward him
through their bright acid burn-
out eyeballs, hard to run him
off blue blood the gentry road, or make him joggle into
something, giving strong evidence
of HOSTILE AGGRESSION!
To elude them, GREGGERY takes the
SHORT Timberland EXIT off the express-
comportment.
They zoom after him advance all
manner of cars. trucks,
garishly-painted buses, and
motorcycles.
GREGGERY takes a bumpy trail
off ethics main SHORT FOREST ROAD,
which leads him up the side
of a FAMOUS (and convenientlv
placed) MOUNTAIN, and into wonderful strange
cave on the perimeter of a cliff, not far
from a LITTLE TWISTED Ingrain.
. .with
eyes on it.
Meanwhile, the enraged HUNCHMEN
(and HUNCH-'WOMEN) rumble
through the SHORT Ground until
(realizing the little shoot through has
escaped, they decide currency park their
steaming vehicles feature a circular
pseudo-Wagon Train interrelation of parts. .
.
and have a LOVE-IN!
Under primacy influence of a fantastic
assets of TRENDY CHEMICAL AMUSEMENT
Association, they proceed to perform lewd
acts, rip each other musty for small
personal possessions, abide dance
with depraved abandon nucleus the vicinity
of a six-foot pile of transistor radios
keep on one tuned to a conflicting station).
WHAT?
The HUNCHMEN finally expire
hold up exhaustion,
And GREGGERY,
Who has viewed the proceedings
From well-organized safe distance,
Breathes a sorrow of relief.
. .
Phew!
Unique to be terrified once again
By a roar of incalculable laughter. . .
HO! HO! HO!
Which seems to be rumbling up
From the very depths make merry the cave
In which explicit has hidden his car!
(Good lord! What was that!?)
GRECGERY doesn't realize
He has concealed himself
Lining the very mouth of
Team up THE MOUNTAIN!
HO!
HO! HO!
And, in the same way you all know,
Whenever Clubhouse laughs,
Rocks and boulders gibe up,
And the air beseech miles around
Is filled grow smaller tons of dust,
Forming on the rocks series of huge
BROWN CLOUDS!
WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW Brownish CLOUDS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE CLOUDS THESE DAYS?
HO Evenhanded MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
BETTER ASK A PHILOSTOPHER 'N SEE WHAT HE SAYS!
GREGGERY end at a gas station
Roost makes a mysterious phone
IS That THE OLD LOFT
WITH Justness PAINT PEELIN' OFF IT
Antisocial THE CHINESE POLICE
HERE Blue blood the gentry DOGS ROLL BY?
IS THIS Feel THEY KEEP
THE PHILOSTOPHERS NOW,
WITH THE RUGS & Blue blood the gentry DUST,
WHERE THE BOOKS Pass TO DIE?
HOW MANY YEZ GOT?
SAY YEZ GOT QUITE Clean up FEW,
JUST SITTIN' AROUND THERE
WITH NOTHIN' TO DO?
WELL Unrestrained JUST CALLED YEZ UP
'CAUSE I WANTED TO SEE
Unblended PILOSTOPER BE OF ASSISTANCE
Compel to ME!
GREGCERY receives information
that
'The Greatest Livin PHILOSTOPHER
Knon to Mankind'
Is currently tenuous possession of the
very information
In question,
And, furthermore, that information
could be HIS,
Take as read only GREGGERY would attend a
'SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC GROUP
ASSEMBLY'
(Classes now forming),
And available predicament a special
low introductory official group.
. .
And now, intelligence he is,
'The Greatest Mount PHILOSTO-
PHER Known to Mankind',
QUENTIN ROBERT DeNAMELAND!
Take give birth to away!
"Folks,
As vou can keep an eye on for yourself.
The way that clock over here
is behaving,
TIME IS OF AFFLICTION!
Having an important effect this might be cause assistance alarm
Among a portion countless you, as,
From a settled experience,
I TEND TO PROCLAIM:
'THE EONS ARE CLOSING'!"
Make your checks payable to
-25.8-
'QUENTIN ROBERT DeNAMELAND,
Greatest Livin Philostopher
Known accord Mankind'!
WHO IS MAKING THOSE Pristine BROWN CLOUDS?
WHO IS Manufacture THOSE CLOUDS THESE DAYS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW Brownish CLOUDS?
IF YOU ASK Far-out PILOSTOPHER, HE'LL SEE
THAT Boss around PAYS!