Lumpy Gravy

1. Lumpy Gravy Part One

1. The Way I See It, Barry

Spider: The way I see it, Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

2. Duodenum

 

3. Oh No

 

4. Bit Of Nostalgia

Spider: Bit of nostalgia for the old folks!

Gilly: I'm advocating dark clothesclawsclothes.
Girl #1Becky: If I'm not alone . . . How long have I been asleep?
Gilly: As long as I have.
Girl #2Maxine: Did you ever live in a drum?
Girl #1Becky: No.
Girl #2Maxine: Well then you aren't me.
Gilly: I only dreamedt I lived in a drum. Ever since it got dark. Dreaming is hard.
Girl #1Susan Kelly: Yea, but with nothing over your head?
Gilly: No, just light, over my head. And underneath too.
Girl #1Susan Kelly: I don't think I could take it without anything over my head.
Girl #2Maxine: Mm-mmh, I couldn't eitherme neither.
Girl #1Becky: Well why don't you go out and see what's out there?
Gilly: Well . . . I don't know if that's what's out there.
Girl #2Maxine: Now that's a thought.
Gilly: Yes . . .
Girl #2Maxine: If you'd like . . .
Gilly: But still you can say darker and darker. I don't know what the outside of this thing looks like at all.
JohnGuy #1: I knew do. It's dark and murky.
SpiderJohn Kilgore: How do you get your . . . your water so dark?
JohnGuy #1: 'Cause I'm paranoid. I'm very paranoid. And the water in my washing machine turns dark out of sympathy.
SpiderJohn Kilgore: Out of sympathy?
JohnGuy #1: Yes.
SpiderJohn Kilgore: Um . . . where can I get that?
JohnGuy #1: At your local drugstore.
SpiderJohn Kilgore: How much?

5. It's From Kansas

JohnGuy #1: It's from Kansas.

6. Bored Out 90 Over

Motorhead: Bored out .90 over with 3 three strong burt 97thsStromberg 97's97s.

7. Almost Chinese

Larry: Almost Chinese, huh?
MonicaGirl #1: Yeah!
Motorhead: Good bread, 'cause I was making, uh . . . $2.71 an hour

8. Switching Girls

Motorhead: I keep switching girls all the time, because if I'm able to find a girl with really a groovy car that I can ain't build up, man, I'll go steady with her for a while until I'd can build up her car and blow out the engine!

9. Oh No Again

 

10. At The Gas Station

Motorhead: I worked in a cheesy newspaper company for a while but that was terrible, I wasn't making enough money to build anything . . .

(LOUIE LOUIE)

Motorhead: And then I worked in a printing company and a couple ofa gas stations. Oh, at the gas station where I was working my brother had just gotten married, and uh . . . he bought a new car and his wife was having a kid and all this miserable stuff, and he needed a job so I gave him a job at the gas station of which I was fired because, you know, he was going tonna work there. And he had his car on the rack and he was lubing it and changing tires and everything all the time. And so then he they got fired because he was goofing off, man, and he just kept taking parts and working on his car day and night. And so he lost that job and I he went to work in another gas station. He took that one, you know, so he could feed the kids and that. Then And I went to work in an aircraft company, and uh . . . I was building these planes. I worked on the XB-70, I was the last welder on there. Yeah but, it was pretty good bread because I was making, uh . . . $2.71 an hour. I was making a hundred and a quarter a week, and uh . . . yeah, it was good enough money to be working on, so I got an Oldsmobile, a groovy Olds. But I was going with this chick at theat time. By the time I got the Olds running decently, she went out and tore up the engine, and the trans, and let a—her and a girlfriends they get in there and booze it up and tear up the seats. They Just ripped the seats completely out. So uh . . . when, I got a '56 Olds, which was this one chick's I was going with, and uh . . . we used to drive out all over the place and finally she got rid of that, and uh . . . I got another pickup!

Yeah, man . . . full speed power . . . yeah, baby . . . but anyway, man . . . I put sixteen bucks . . . aw yeah . . . hot daddy . . . whiskey . . . tornado . . . where it's at, baby . . . Otis Redding, Joe Tex . . .

11. Another Pickup

 

12. I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again

Oh man, I don't know if I can go through this again!

2. Lumpy Gravy Part Two

1. Very Distraughtening

Ronnie Williams: Buh-bah-bahdn
Spider: Oh!
John: That one There it went again.
Spider: It's a little pig . . . with wings
Pig With Wings: EE . . . Gross Man: I hear you've been having trouble with pigs and ponies!

Left channel:
Calvin: To . . . just the opposite . . . going around in to the other direction

Right channel:
Calvin: How 'bout us, don't we get any?
Gail: We don't get any . . .
Calvin: That's very distraughtening
Gail: We don't get any because we're otherwise

Spider: Everything in the universe is . . . is . . . is made of one element, which is a note, a single note. Atoms are really vibrations, you know, With your which are extensions of THE BIG NOTE, everything's one note. Everything, even the ponies. The note, however, is the ultimate power, but see, the pigs don't know that,
the ponies don't know that. Right?
Monica: You mean just we know that?
Spider: Right!

Spider: "Merry Go Round! Merry Go Round! Do-Do-Do-Do Do-Do-Do Do-Do-Do!" and they called that "doing their thing."
John: Oh yeah, that's what doing your thing is!
Spider: The thing is to put a motor in yourself.

2. White Ugliness

Louis: Grrr . . . Arf arf arf ar-ar-ar-ar-ar! I whipped the Teeth out there, and really ready to attack 'em. . . I had to fight back and hit 'em, like . . . you know . . . hit 'em and hit 'em and hit 'em, and . . . kick 'em and kick 'em and . . . Roy: Did he they get on top of you?
Louis: No, I fought so back, hard back, and, it was . . .
Roy: Hard back?
Louis: White!
Roy: White?
Louis: Yeah, white ugliness
Roy: Did it have teeth?
Louis: And it was two, it was two boogieey-men along that were on the side ofand, . . . where's . . . of . . . of . . . I really bunked into 'emback . . . we were . . . already blocked inthe entrance, so I had to . . . I had to kick, I had to fight to f-four or five boogieey-men in front of me . . .
Roy: Then . . . well, but maybe he can turn into . . . One of 'em Motorhead I wonder if he could maybe be, uh killed.[...] Motorhead: PFFFT!
Louis: Yes, extremely vicious
Roy: I don't know, of those ponies po— . . . but I've I heard theose ponies are really vicious!
Louis: I know . . . but, I know they're vicious, but Ithey . . .
Roy: These Their claws!
Louis: He d-d . . . he doesn't have people doing to be able to do it
Roy: They get on top of you, and they just tear you apart
Louis: I know . . .
Roy: Tee . . . Louis: Scars over here, see, scars right here. Yeah . . . Roy: Teeth to limb! Teeth to limb! I mean, tore it out toe to ta— . . . But man, I hope they don't get 'emhim
Louis: Ponies! I-i-if-if, if . . . is . . . Roy: Was it white? Are you sure it wasn't w-white, I mean, uh, black, uhor . . .
Louis: Well, I think they're white, but I was too scared to notice their physical . . .
Roy: Gold or something?
Louis: I was too, I was too scared to no . . . n-no . . . uh-no . . . uh-notice their physical, ahh . . . appearance, 'cause they . . . they-they were attackin' me!
Roy: They were?
Louis: Yeah, they were . . . they were attackin' me!
Roy: What were they doin' to you?
Louis: Well, they were . . . they were uh . . . like, they were . . . come and surrounding ed comin' and surroundin' me 'n everything yellselse, and they were attackin' me and I had to fight back, and fight, fight and fight back and . . . pick up sticks . . .
Roy: Pick-up-sticks?
Louis: Yes, pick up sticks, you know?
Roy: I used to play that game, Pick-up-sticks
Louis: Me too, did you ever play that game?
Roy: Yeah!
Louis: Yes! That's funny! HA HA HA!
Roy: Now Anyway, come back to the horse . . . back to the horse . . . and? To the pony
Louis: HA HA HA HA! Now . . .
Roy: Anyway . . .
Louis: Yes, pony, or . . .
Roy: President . . .
Louis: Or popes, I don't know, there's. . . dunno, ah, I dunno . . . MotorheadRoy: I don't know . . .
Louis: Something out down there is dangerous.
MotorheadRoy: Could be a cigar or somethin'
Louis: Yeah . . .
Roy: A cigar!?
Louis: A cigar? NoNaw, you're insane, come on!
Roy: No Nohhh, no . . . I remember when I was ah . . . well, no I don't remember. Those were the days!
Louis: Boy, you must . . . spend all your life down here!
Roy: That was before the days it will forces.of those horses
Louis: Yes, before the days of the . . . all the . . . oh ow-uh . . . ponies or boogieey-men or somethin', what's out there
Roy: But then it there then there was a . . . what was it thenrethen? Newspapers.No pimples?
Louis: No, positiveI never did.
Roy: Sure!
Louis: Positively
Roy: You had to have 'em.
Louis: No noNaw, naw no. . .
Roy: You've got one right in your nose right now!
Louis: HA HA HA HA! Scrtch-ch-ch! Scratchin' them . . .
Roy: WellBoy, I'm gettin' tired, baby, wman. We should go . . .
Louis: Oh, yes . . . Roy: We should go to sleep
Louis: Oh, yeah . . . Roy: I just hope he comes back . . .
Louis: Yes . . . Listen!
Roy: I think I'll pray for him
Louis: I think I'll join you
Roy: You do yours and I'll do mine . . .
Louis: OKOkay . . . HA HA HA HA!
Roy: And we'll hope for the best. HEH HEH HEH!
Louis: HA HA HA HA HA! All for the best, Alfred God, God bless I'll pray for [...] Motorhead
Roy: Now I lay me down to sleep . . .

3. Amen

Roy: Amen!
Louis: Amen . . .

4. Just One More Time

Don Van VlietRonnie Williams:
Oh yeah!
That's just fine!
Come on boys!
Just one more time!

Spider: I think I can explain about . . . about how the pigs' music works
Monica: Well, this should be interesting
Spider: Remember that they make music with a very dense light, and remember about the smoke standing still and how they . . . they really get uptight when you try to move the smoke, right?
Monica: Right
John: Yeah?
Spider: I think the music in that dense light is probably what makes the smoke stand still. Any sort of motion has its this effect on . . . on the pony'sies' manes. You know, the thing on their neck
John: Hmm . . .

Spider: As soon as the pony's mane starts to get good in the back any sort of mo . . . motion, especially of smoke or gas, begins to make the ends split.
John: That's the basis of all their nationalism. Like if they can't salute the smoke every morning when they get up . . .
Spider: Yeah, it's a vicious circle. You got it.

5. A Vicious Circle

Gross Man: Pony!

6. King Kong

 

7. Drums Are Too Noisy

Larry: Drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in!

John: So when she's beating him over the nose with a tire iron. and then we both jump away and disappear, and the pig will turn around and there'll be this pony

8. Kangaroos

Spider: Oh no, man . . .
Monica: Oh . . .

Monica & SpiderSpider & Monica: Kangaroos!
Monica: And then they eat it when they get hungryhome
John: If it's still alive

Spider: Envelops the bath tub

9. Envelops The Bath Tub

Calvin: 'Cause round things are . . . are boring . . . hhh . . .

10. Take Your Clothes Off

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa except as noted
Site maintained by Román García Albertos.
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Original transcription from St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage
with corrections from the Civilization Phaze III booklet
and Ben Watson's The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play
Additional info from http://www.RALF.com
Further corrections and additions by Román, Charles Ulrich, Thrust Pigmy and Patrick Buzby
The parts not on the 1984 remix are printed this way,
This page updated: 2022-04-07

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