Artist: Frank Zappa Album: You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 6 (1970) Title: Lonesome Cowboy Nando
Lyrics Lonesome Cowboy NandoFrank: My name is Nando, I'm a marine biologist. All my friends, they call me "Doh".
Ike & Mike: Hi, Doh!
Frank: All my family, from someplace in this area, And they complain if I talk about this horrible pizza during the show.
All: Come out here, to Californy, Just to find me some pretty girls. Ones I seen gets me so horny, Ruby lips, 'n teeth like pearls.
Wanna love 'em all, wanna love 'em dearly. Wanna a jellyfish, I'll even pay. I'll buy 'em furs, I'll buy 'em pizza, I know they like me, here's what I'll say:
(1971:)
Jimmy Carl Black: I'm lonesome cowboy Burt. Speakin' atcha! Won'tcha smell my fringe-y shirt? Reekin' atcha! My cowboy pants, My cowboy dance, My bold advance On this here waitress...
Mark & Howard: He's lonesome cowboy Burt. A-Ha! Don'tcha get his feelings hurt.
Jimmy: Come on in this place An' I'll buy you a taste. You can sit on my face. Where's my waitress?
Mark & Howard: Burtram, Burtram redneck! Burtram, Burtram redneck!
Jimmy: I'm an awful nice guy. Worked all day in the sun. I'm a roofer by trade, Quite a bundle I've made, I'm a unionized roofin' old son-of-a-gun.
Mark & Howard: He's a unionized roofin' old son of a gun!
(1988:)
Ike: "Darling, I crazy go nuts when I hear this, you know what I'm sayin'?"
Frank: When I get off, I get plastered. I swim till I fall on the jellyfish. Then I find me some academic kind of illustrator, I describe the little dangling utensils on this thing, And tell him to draw it up so it looks just like a brand new jellyfish.
Ike & Mike: (trying to follow along, they sing some gibberish)
Frank: "Take that! Take that!" I fuss an' I cuss and I keep on swimmin', Till my snorkel puffs up an' turns red. I drool on my shorts, I do some water sports, Then I take the jellyfish back to my house And stick it in the bed! "Sorta..."
Ike & Mike: "Whaddya do?" Stick it again in the bed!
Frank: "That's right!
Ike & Mike: Stick it again in the bed! Stick it again in the bed! Stick it again in the bed!
(1971:)
Jimmy: Lonesome cowboy Burt. Speakin' atcha! Smell my fringe-y shirt. Reekin' atcha! My cowboy pants, My cowboy dance, My bold advance On this here waitress!
Mark & Howard: He's lonesome cowboy Burt. Yee-ha! Don'tcha get his feelings hurt!
Jimmy: Come on in this place, an' I'll buy you a taste. You can sit on my face. Where's my waitress?
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