Let's Make The Water Turn Black/Harry, You're A Beast/The Orange County Lumber Truck - Frank Zappa

Now believe me when I tell you that my song is really true

I want everyone to listen and believe

It’s about some little people from a long time ago

And all the things the neighbors didn’t know

Early in the morning Daddy Dinky went to work

Selling lamps & chairs to San Ber’dino squares

And I still remember Mama with her apron & her pad

Feeding all the boys at Ed’s Cafe!

Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day …

(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)

And all the while on a shelf in the shed:

KENNY’S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY!

Ronnie saves his numies on a window in his room

(A marvel to be seen: dysentery green)

While Kenny & his buddies had a game out in the back:

LET’S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK

We see them after school in a world of their own

(To some it might seem creepy what they do …)

The neighbors on the right sat & watched them every night

(I bet you’d do the same if they was you)

Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day …

(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)

And all the while on a shelf in the shed:

KENNY’S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY!

Ronnie’s in the Army now & Kenny’s taking pills

Oh!

How they yearn to see a bomber burn!

Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machine!

(Wait till the fire turns green … wait till the fire turns green)

WAIT TILL THE FIRE TURNS GREEN!

I’m gonna tell you the way it is

And I’m not gonna be kind or easy

Your whole attitude stinks, I say

And the life you lead is completely empty

You paint your head

Your mind is dead

You don’t even know what I just said

THAT’S YOU: AMERICAN WOMANHOOD!

You’re phony on top

You’re phony underneath

You lay in bed & grit your teeth

MADGE, I WANT YOUR BODY!

HARRY, GET BACK!

MADGE, IT’S NOT MERELY PHYSICAL!

HARRY, YOU’RE A BEAST!

Don’t come in me, in me

Don’t come in me, in me

Don’t come in me, in me

Don’t come in me, in me

MADGE, I. .. MADGE.

.. I COULDN’T HELP IT

I. .. DOGGONE IT!

(Instrumental)