Billy The Mountain

Frank Zappa & the Mothers

BILLY the Mountain

BILLY the Mountain

A regular picturesque

Postcardy mountain

Residing between lovely

Rosamond and Gorman

With his stunning wife ETHELL,

A tree!

A tree!



BILLY was a mountain

ETHELL was a tree

Growing off of his shoulder



BILLY was a mountain

ETHELL was a tree

Growing off of his shoulder



Billy had two big

Caves for eyes,

With a cliff for a jaw

That would go up 'n down,

And whenever it did,

He'd puff out some dust,

And hack up a boulder

(HACK!)

Hack up a boulder

(HACK! HACK!)

Hack up a boulder

(HACK! HACK! HACK!)

Hack up a boulder



Now, one day, a man in a checkered suit drove up in a big Lincoln Continental, and he laid a HUGE, BULGING ENVELOPE right at the corner of BILLY THE MOUNTAIN, right where his 'foot' was supposed to be.



Now, BILLY THE MOUNTAIN, he couldn't believe it! All those postcards he'd posed for, for OVER THESE YEARS, and finally, now, AT LAST, his Royalties!



Royalties!

Royalties . . .

Royalties!

Royalties . . .

Royalties!



BILLY THE MOUNTAIN was RICH! His eyeball-caves widened in amazement, his cliff (which was his jaw), it dropped thirty feet!



Ooh, a bunch of dust puffed out! Rocks and boulders hacked up, (hack! hack! hack! hack hack! hack! hack!) crushing 'The LINCOLN'!



Now, the man in the checkered suit, well, without his car he went screaming off into the desert at sunset (AAAA-AAA-AAAAH!) all the way to Rosamond to get a beer and tell everybody there including Ronnie Cook what had happened to his car.



I gave him the money

He acted real funny

He hocked up a rock and

It TOTALLED my car!



Oh, do you

Know any trucks

Might be bound for THE VALLEY?

I don't wanna stand here

All night in this bar

(Dear Lord)



I don't wanna stand here

All night in this bar

(No shit!)



I don't wanna stand here

All