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The old geezer
Jun 19, 2013, 4:44:09 PM6/19/13
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Though this is one of my fave Zappa tunes, I still don't get what
Frank is
trying to say. Is he mocking out winos due to his usual disdain for
people who
"can't handle life" & turn to drugs to escape the "pressure" (ie.
"We're
turning again") OR is he just stating a fact of life; just telling us
the "way
it is"?
Wasn't this song also done in the Flo & Eddie years? How did they
handle it?
Thoughts............
Comments.................
ThE oLd GeEzEr
Frank is
trying to say. Is he mocking out winos due to his usual disdain for
people who
"can't handle life" & turn to drugs to escape the "pressure" (ie.
"We're
turning again") OR is he just stating a fact of life; just telling us
the "way
it is"?
Wasn't this song also done in the Flo & Eddie years? How did they
handle it?
Thoughts............
Comments.................
ThE oLd GeEzEr
Al_Fresco
Jun 19, 2013, 4:49:29 PM6/19/13
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Shiek Barrack Hussien
Jun 19, 2013, 10:00:01 PM6/19/13
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Les Cargill
Jun 19, 2013, 11:21:57 PM6/19/13
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The old geezer wrote:
> Though this is one of my fave Zappa tunes, I still don't get what
> Frank is
> trying to say. Is he mocking out winos due to his usual disdain for
> people who
> "can't handle life" & turn to drugs to escape the "pressure" (ie.
> "We're
> turning again") OR is he just stating a fact of life; just telling us
> the "way
> it is"?
>
As that sort of Frank-song goes, I thought it was sort of sympathetic.
> Though this is one of my fave Zappa tunes, I still don't get what
> Frank is
> trying to say. Is he mocking out winos due to his usual disdain for
> people who
> "can't handle life" & turn to drugs to escape the "pressure" (ie.
> "We're
> turning again") OR is he just stating a fact of life; just telling us
> the "way
> it is"?
>
Is there a reason to think anything about Frank's lyrics except
that he felt obligated to make lyrics, so he made them as entertaining
to himself as humanly possible?
They're like Goya sketches. Speakin' a' which, try to watch "Goya's
Ghosts" without thinking of "The Torture Never Stops." Yeah, Captain
Obvious...
> Wasn't this song also done in the Flo & Eddie years? How did they
> handle it?
>
> Thoughts............
> Comments.................
> ThE oLd GeEzEr
>
Les Cargill
Kaie Fabiaen
Jun 20, 2013, 9:24:13 AM6/20/13
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:21:57 -0500, Les Cargill
<lcarg...@comcast.com> wrote:
>> Wasn't this song also done in the Flo & Eddie years? How did they
>> handle it?
They did it a few times, I just love the line:
<lcarg...@comcast.com> wrote:
>> Wasn't this song also done in the Flo & Eddie years? How did they
>> handle it?
"..And my wino career are in a slump.."
Oh sheit..here's the whole thing:
--------------------
Bringing in the sheaves
Bringing in the sheaves
We will come rejoicing
Bringing in the sheaves
L.A. in the summer of '69
I went downtown and bought some wine
I wasted my head on three quarts o' juice
And now the grapes won't turn me loose
I'm a wino man, don't you know I am
36, 24, hips about 30
(36, 24, hips about 30)
I seen some witch and I started talkin' dirty
(Seen a fine lady and I started talkin' dirty)
She looked at me and raised her thumb
Thumb yea-eah
And said jam down the road, you funky-ass bum
'Cause I'm a wino man, know I am
..w-i-n-o.. man...
<and the they's stop and screem..:>
..WHINe..NIO..MANNNNN...!!!!!!!!!
I, I went to the country
And while I was gone
A roller-headed lady
Caught me weedlin' on her lawn
I'm so ashamed, but I'm a wino man
I can't help myself
Oh yeah
Wino man, don't you know I am
Well, my drug indulgence
And my wino career are in a slump
'Cause I find myself now living in a cardboard refrigerator box down
by the Houston dump
And I'm so ashamed
I been drinkin' all night and my eyes are all red
Why my (?) I don't know which way to go
Give me five bucks and a hot meal
Give me fi-i-i-i-ive bucks and a hot meal
(Give me fi-i-i-i-i-ive bucks and a hot meal)
I tell you everytime I get a chance, oh yeah
FZ: I wondered what it would sound like if Dr. John the Night Tripper
sang this song?
Gris gris gumbo, ya ya
FZ: Should be gris-gris gumbo wino
Heya dadadaah
Come on
Gris gris gumbo, ya ya
Heya dadadaah
[continues]
They call me Dr. John
I'm known as the Night Tripper
Got my satchel of gris-gris in my hand
We take all the stamped-out hippies way down the bayou
I'm the last of the best, known as the gris-gris man
And my women say
And my band be cookin'
And I don't need no Fender Amplifier
Come on
Everybody sing along, come on
Gris-gris.
The doctor's on get down sometime
The preceding was paid for
Shuck shuck shuck shuck . . .
The F & E years were a lot of fun. Low $ tours
in cheap places, but man..da colors..da colors..
JJTj
God Bless us, because we is funky...
Making our own rules, no matter the price..
and you best believe...we NEVER think twice...
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