Frank Zappa

Lonesome Cowboy Nando

Frank Zappa


Frank:
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? 

"Opal, you hot little bitch!"