Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

[fox69]

"Pompadour Swamp"

"Pompadour Swamp"


There's an avenue where the silhouettes dance
There's an avenue where the silhouettes dance
And the sun there shines down
Day and night

Nobody looks there
Everybody knows there
Good times grow there
Come on, baby, let's go there
Where?
Pompadour swamp

Fun never waits there
It starts at the gate there
Pompadour swamp
Don't you be late there
Just get there
Pompadour swamp
Pompadour swamp

Wafer-thin shadows dance in nostalgic meadows
Ya, dance there

Fun never waits there
It starts at the gate there
Pompadour swamp
Don't you be late there
Just get there
Pompadour swamp
Pompadour swamp

There's an avenue where the silhouettes dance
There's a lane there where they dance
And the sun shines day and night there
All you got to do is get down there
Pompadour swamp
Pompadour swamp...

 

[fox69]

"Rock 'n Roll's Evil Doll"

"Rock 'n Roll's Evil Doll"


Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Here she comes down the hall
Her eyes are flashing
She's looking big, I'm feeling small
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
The writing's on the wall
She's coming up on me
Getting bigger as she gets near to me
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Feel like running
But I don't want to fall
She's so big
I'm so small
I heard the door slam
And I ran down rock 'n roll's rainbow hall
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Here she comes down the hall
Her eyes are flashing
She's looking big, I'm feeling small
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Feel like running
But I don't want to fall
She's so big
I'm so small
I heard the door slam
And I ran down rock 'n roll's evil hall
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll
Rock 'n Roll's evil doll...
She's so big
I'm getting big, too
She's looking small
She's looking big
I'm getting big, too!

 

[fox69]

"Run Paint Run Run"

"Run Paint Run Run"


Run paint run run
Run paint run run
Run paint run run

Paint hears this and he begin to run
Electric black shadow runs 'cross the sun

Run paint run run
Run paint run run

Hold holes in the world
The sun goes down, we'll be done
You hoped
And you hopped
And you hopped
And you swung
There's my baby standing at the gate
Waving, "Come, come"
Paint hears this and he begin to run

Run paint run run

You got hot paint, and you're havin' fun
There's my baby standing at the gate
Waving, "Come, come"

Run paint run run

Paint hears this and he begin to run
Electric black shadow runs 'cross the sun
Run paint run run
Run paint run run

When the sun goes down, we'll be done paint done
Run paint run run
Electric black shadow runs 'cross the sun
Run paint run run
You hoped
And you hopped
And you hopped
Then you won
Run paint run run

You gold plated monkey
You're a hot devil sun
Run paint run run
Run paint run run

You better go by and you run and you run
You got hot paint and you swung and you swung
Run paint run run
And you hoped
And you hopped
And you hopped
And you swung
Run paint run run

You're a hot devil's sun
You 're a mean monkey
You stuck out your tongue

Hope you have the winning ticket
When the race is done

Run paint run run
Run paint run run
Run paint run run
Run paint run run

 

[fox69]

"Safe As Milk"

"Safe As Milk"


Well my cigarette died when I washed my face
Dropped some drops in an ashtray hit a wrong place
Woman at my blinds to see spiders spinning lines
It's a safe as milk, it's a safe as milk
I never heard it put quite that way
The shape I'm in is a gone a way
They called a day, they called a day
Yesterday's paper headlines approach
Rain gutter teasing, rusty cat sneezing
Soppin wet hammer, dusty and wheezing
Lusty alley whining trashcan blues
Children running after rainbows stocking poor
Gracious ladies nylon hanging on to line
Jumping onto leg looking mighty fine
Sorrows lollipop lands stick-broken on a dark carnival ground
Pop up toaster cracklin
Aluminium rhythm and sound
Every day pencil lazy and sharp
The icebox inside looking like a harp
Electric bulb been out for years
Freezer fumes feed the gas tears
Cheese in the corner with a mile long beard
Bacon blue bread dog eared...
I may be hungry but I sure ain't weird

 

[fox69]

"Same Old Blues"

"Same Old Blues"


Have you heard that rumour
That's going around?
You got another man
Way across town
It's the same old story
Tell me when does it end?
Yes I heard the news
It's the same old blues again
Well I wrote you a letter
You must have read it wrong
I stood at your doorway
Ah, but you were gone
I took a lot of time
And let your telephone ring
It's the same old blues
The same old blues again
When you give me the business
Well it didn't mind
'Cause I've got a lot of patience
And I got a lot of time
It's the same old story
Tell me when does it end?
It's the same old blues
The same old blues again
I said it's the same old blues
The same old blues again
I'm gonna find me a mountain
I'm gonna hide out
I ain't talking to you
And I ain't yet coming out
'Cause I heard that rumour
Tell me where does it end?
Yes I heard the news
It's the same old blues again
'Cause I said it's the same old blues
The same old blues again

 

[fox69]

"She's Too Much For My Mirror"

"She's Too Much For My Mirror"


Here you would have a famous version of "She's Too Much for My Mirror"
Note the clever slight
"She's Too Much for My, or Anybody's, Mirror" number 2
Told ya

She's too much for my mirror
She almost makes me lose it
The way she abuse it make me never wanna use it
Well mend your heart and mind your soul

Old Chicago, she a woman that a make a young man a bum
She howl like the wind, make my heart grow cold
Make me long for that little red fum

She makes things fly and she makes things roll
She got me way over here and I'm hungry and cold
I remember my mother told me I oughta be choosey
That was way back when I thought she was my friend
Now I find out, she's a floozy

I remember the butterflies and the sweet smell of corn
And the bubblin' fish in that little pond
Oh, Lousey, oh, Lousey
How I long for you, how I long for you

She's too much for my mirror
That little floozy oh how I fear her
Oh, Lousey

Shit I don't know how I'm gonna get that in there

 

[fox69]

"Sheriff Of Hong Kong"

"Sheriff Of Hong Kong"


She always shows up when I'm up
But she never shows up when I'm down
But she's under arrest
'Cause I might guess
The Sheriff of Hong Kong
Then she goes up in a flash
I bite the end of her sash
Then I'm long gone
To Hong Kong Kong

She never makes a taste mistake
She's the Sheriff of Hong Kong
Now I'm the Sheriff of Hong Kong
Now she's the Sheriff of Hong Kong
Long gone gone
To Hong Kong Kong

Whoa I'm long gone
To Hong Kong Kong

Long gone gone
To Hong Kong Kong
Ad hu
And uh zing hu
I don't know who I am
Do you?
Oh ah ooh..

There's a string and bat dangle
Black and white bat and cat panda
And uh
She's the Sheriff of Hong Kong
And uh
Ad hu
And uh zing hu
I don't know who I am
Do you?

Now she's the Sheriff of Hong Kong gone
I bite the end of her sash
And she's off in a flash
And we're long gone gone
To Hong Kong Kong

There's a string and bat dangle
Black and white bat and cat panda
And uh
She's the Sheriff of Hong Kong and uh
Ad hu
And uh zing hu
Whoa-oh oh oh..

Wai ni sha yeah
Wai ni sha yeah
She say
Oh, oh..

Ad hu
Zing hu
Wai ni sha yeah
Wai ni sha yeah
Oh
Ad hu
Zing hu
She's the Sheriff of Hong Kong
Zo hu
Zing hu
Ah oh
Ah oh
Ad hu
Zing hu
Ah me and you

 

[fox69]

"Skeleton Makes Good"

"Skeleton Makes Good"


There's so many things
To feel and see while you're awake
They're just out of reach
Out of grasp
Yeah out of reach
And just as many, maybe more
The minute that you sleep
So I got to throw my preach
Skeleton breath
Scorpion blush
I have a crush on your skeleton
Watch out unsuspecting stranger

You'll fall off the log
Headfirst into dreams
End up screaming
This will comb the wolf
And that will comb the fog
What will peen the rain
What will preen the hog
Oh you mean earth
And hell over you
And laugh at your tire tracks
If you get up
Skeleton makes good

 

[fox69]

"Son Of Mirror Man - Mere Man"

"Son Of Mirror Man - Mere Man"


Mirror mirror mirror...
Mirror man mirror me...
Mirror man mirror than mirror man follow the band
Farther than you oh farther than me
Mirror
Mirror day mirror way mirror man mirror me
Mirror man farther than mirror man mirror me
Mirror man farther than
You're a me and you're a me and you're a me...
Oh mirror man oh mirror man mirror me mirror me mirror me
(Bop bee boo bop do-be-do)

 

[fox69]

"Space-Age Couple"

"Space-Age Couple"


Space-age couple
Why don't you flex your magic muscle?
Space-age couple
Why do you hex your magic muscle?
Space-age couple
Why do you hustle 'n bustle?
Why don't you drop your cool tom-foolery
'N shed your nasty jewelry?
Cultivate the grounds
They're the only ones around
Space-age couple
Why don't you flex your magic muscle?
Hold a drinking glass up to your eye after you've
Scooped up a little of the sky
'N it ain't blue no more
What's on the leaves ain't dew no more
Space-age couple
Why don't you just do that?
Why don't you just do that?