Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

[fox69]

"Cardboard Cutout Sundown"

"Cardboard Cutout Sundown"


You hardly know a day goes by
In the cardboard cutout sundown
The moon popped up like a gallery duck
Sipped up gold from the sunny cup
And longhorns sawed the buggy grass
And a cowboy blew a harp sitting on his chapped ass
And the prairie flowers didn't look a bit queer
And the stars struck the sand cartwheeled
And poked in the prairie
A cactus juice stand the only place the crows couldn't land
The bluebottle flies were as big as a cowboy's eyes
And their buzz was as loud as rattlers
A fire engine red whistle blows raspberries
In a cloud of whipped steam
A tunmble weed ran out black patent yarn stinkbug hoops
From above a living mail thriving dot
In perfect sympathy with the cardboard cutout sundown
You hardly know a day goes by
In the cardboard cutout sundown

 

[fox69]

"China Pig"

"China Pig"


I don't wanna kill my china pig
No I don't
Uh man's gotta live
Uh man's gotta eat
Uh man's gotta have shoes to walk out on the street
I don't wanna kill my china pig
Well he was uh baby I want yuh to see
I don't wanna kill my china pig
Well I used to go to school
With a little red box
And I used to have my pig go with me
We'd walked for blocks
I don't wanna kill my china pig
His tail curled five times in a circle 'round
It's glazed
He's got a slot in his back, flowers grow
My china pig be uh, quite a show
I don't wanna kill my china pig, woah no
I got him by the snout
And I takes him by the cuff
And I whipped out my fork
And I poked at him
Three hairs laid out on my floor
I remember my china pig
I fed the neighborhood
It was a big neighborhood
A lot of people liked my pig
One little girl used to put her fingers in his snout
I put a fork in his back
I didn't wanna kill my china pig

 

[fox69]

"Circumstances"

"Circumstances"


Once you find out the circumstances
Then you can uh go out, whoa yeah

Once you find out the circumstances
Then you can uh go out, whoa yeah

Little girl don't you know that the stars up above are runnin' on love
Little girl don't you know that they're blinkin' at you
Now the sun can sun burn you but
Not as bad as those old people do, yeah

Ah once you find out the circumstances
Then you can uh go out, whoa yeah

Little girl don't you know that the stars up above are runnin' on love
Little girl don't you know that uh they're blinkin' at you
Now the sun can sun burn you but
Not as bad as those o-o-o-old people do, yeah ha ha ha

Ah once you once you find out the circumstances
Then you then you then you then you-u-u-u can go out, ah yeah

You can go o-o-o-out...

 

[fox69]

"Clear Spot"

"Clear Spot"


I have to run so far to find a clear spot
Sun's all hottin' and a rottin' hot
Swamp's all rotten 'n stinkin' uh
Vegetation's hot
Sleepin' in a bayou on a old rotten cot
Can't find my kind of folks havin' fun
I have to run run run run
Run to find a clear spot
Can't shadow down, the sun big brown
Mosquitos 'n moccasins steppin' all around
'Fraid I'm gonna get hit
Sun's all hottin' and a rottin' hot
Vegetation's hot
Sleepin' in a bayou on a old rotten cot
Can't find my kind of folks havin' fun
Got to run run run run
Run to find a clear spot
Can't shadow down, the sun big brown
Mosquitos 'n moccasins steppin' all around
'Fraid I'm gonna get hit
'Fraid I'm gonna get hit
I have to run so far to find a clear spot

 

[fox69]

"Click Clack"

"Click Clack"


Two trains
Two railroad tracks
One goin' 'n the other one comin' back
There goes my baby on that ole train

I say come back come back baby come back
Click clack click clack
There's my baby wain' her handkerchief down
My cars stand up when I hear that sound

This time it sound like it's for keeps
Click clack click clack
I get down on the ground
With the gravel around

I pray to the Lord
That the train will stop
Turn right around
'N never stop till it drop my baby off

Now I had this girl
Threatened 'n leave me all the time
Maybe you had uh girl like that
I-yuh all time cryin'

Well I had this girl
Threatened 'n leave me all the time
Threatenin' to go down to N'Orleans-uh
'N get herself lost 'n found

Maybe you had uh girl like this
She's always threatenin' to go down to N'Orleans
'N get herself lost 'n found
C'mon I'll play it for yuh

Lemme tell yuh 'bout it
Lemme tell yuh 'bout it
There were two railroad tracks
Click clack click clack

One ah them leavin'-uh
'N the other one comin' back
I was two years from yuh baby
You were goin' way up the tracks

The train was leavin'-uh
I could see yuh wavin' your handkerchief

 

[fox69]

"Crazy Little Thing"

"Crazy Little Thing"


Crazy little thing has just gone crazy
Girl, how'd ya get a name like crazy little thing
Probably the name that drove you crazy all along
How'd ya get a walk
How'd ya get it all to move so smooth and lazy
How'd ya learn to talk real low like that
To where it makes all the men go crazy
Every little thing, every little thing has just gone crazy
The way she move, there ain't no maybe
Talkin' way low like that
To where all the men go crazy
She brings things down lower than they should be
She brings things up higher than they could be
She got the answer to the answer
And my only question is how old, how cool, how low can you be?
(Won't find out from me)
If you're too young, girl, you know you're gonna be the ruin of me
They call her crazy, but I'm hot and she's cold
Crazy little thing, crazy little thing
How old, how old, how old
How'd ya get built like that?
You ain't been here that long
Crazy little thing, crazy little thing
How long, how long, how long
Crazy little thing has just gone crazy
Girl, how'd ya get a name like crazy little thing
Probably the name that drove you crazy all along
How'd ya get a walk
How'd ya get it all to move so smooth and lazy
How'd ya learn to talk real low like that
To where it drives, to where it drives the men all crazy
Crazy little thing has just gone crazy
Girl, how'd ya get a name like crazy little thing
Probably the name that drove you crazy all along

 

[fox69]

"Dachau Blues"

"Dachau Blues"


Dachau blues, those poor Jews
Dachau blues, those poor Jews
Dachau blues, Dachau blues, those poor Jews
Still cryin' 'bout the burnin' back in World War Two's
One mad man, six million lose
Down in Dachau blues, down in Dachau blues

The world can't forget that misery
And the young ones now beggin' the old ones "Please"
To stop bein' madmen
'Fore they have to tell their children 'bout the burnin's back in World War Three's

War One was balls and powder and blood and snow
War Two rained death and showers and skeletons
Dancin' and screamin' and dyin' in the ovens
Cough and smoke and dyin' by the dozens
Down in Dachau blues
Down in Dachau blues

Sweet little children with doves on their shoulders
Their eyes rolled back in ecstasy
Cryin', "Please old man stop this misery."
They're countin' out the devil with two fingers on their hands
Beggin' the Lord don't let the third one land
On World War Three
On World War Three

 

[fox69]

"Diddy Wah Diddy"
(originally by Bo Diddley)

"Diddy Wah Diddy"
(originally by Bo Diddley)



I gotta girl in Diddy Wah Diddy
Ain't no town and it ain't no city
She loves her man till it's a pity
Crazy 'bout my girl in Diddy Wah Diddy

Diddy Wah
Diddy Wah
Diddy Wah

This little girl is sweet as she can be
I know she's in love with me
A lovely face, she's so pretty
She lives way down in Diddy Wah Diddy

Diddy Wah
Diddy Wah
Diddy Wah

Ain't no town, ain't no city
Woh, how they love in Diddy Wah Diddy

She kissed me all the time
Gonna drive me outta my mind
Any day she say she's ready
Take her right back to Diddy Wah Diddy

Diddy Wah
Diddy Wah
Diddy Wah

 

[fox69]

"Dirty Blue Gene"

"Dirty Blue Gene"


The shiny beast of thought
If you got ears
You gotta listen
Old woman sweat
Young girls glisten
The extract you thought
Is the extract you got

Pop in a thought
Ex-extract
D'you hear me?

Hope these are hard [?] drops
Grooves you away
Drop by drop
Light by bright
Night by light
There ain't no good
And there ain't no blame
Not hip
Ain't no aim
You make the fault
You cause the blame
Devil the same
Pop in a thought
Ex-extract
Shiny beast of thought
You hang up
Now you're caught
If you got ears
You gotta listen
Old woman sweat
Young girls glisten
There's more than what you thought
Pop in a thought
The shiny beast of thought

Stand there bubblin' like an open cola in the sun
Back is achin'
Work is never done
She's swinging a sponge on the end of a string
Right on the brink
She spills the ink down the sink
She's not bad
She's just genetically mean
She's not bad
She's just genetically mean
Don't you wish you never met her?
Don't you wish you never met her?
Don't you wish you never met her?
Dirty Blue Gene

She's swinging a sponge on the end of a string
Don't you wish you never met her?
Don't you wish you never met her?
Don't you wish you never met her?
Don't you wish you never met her?
She's not bad
She's just genetically mean
(Fuck)
Dirty Blue Gene
Dirty
Dirty
Dirty
Dirty Blue Gene
She's not bad

 

[fox69]

"Doctor Dark"

"Doctor Dark"


Mama, mama, here come Doctor Dark
Horse clippin', clappin' 'n' his ol' hooves makin' sparks
Black leather lady Lord carried her bags
The hell horn, hell horn, hell horn
Horn rim crimped
Glasses look out on the pale hell bent
Moon milk run
O' lady go home
Lord they done cookin' done
Black lady
Black leather lady
Done had a white, white, white poor son
Mama, mama, here come Doctor Dark
Horse clippin', clappin' 'n' his ol' hooves makin' sparks
Gotta git me who I want to
God, Lord knows I've got to oh see that Doctor Dark
Mama, mama, here come Doctor Dark
Horse clippin', clappin' 'n' his ol' hooves makin' sparks
Shed a tear on the meadow lark 'n' like
Tear t' drink
T' brush away
'N tear apart 'n' black 'n' white 'n' like
Tear t' drink t' brush away
'N tear apart 'n' black 'n' white 'n' like
The moon a pail of milk spilled down black in the night
Little girl lost a tear
'N her kite
T' the night 'n' like 'n' light
God, Lord knows I've got to oh see that Doctor Dark