Dummy Up (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood/1973) - Frank Zappa/The Mothers

Sunrise

Get up in the mornin'

You know I dig this mornin'

The sun is shinin' bright

I'm gonna get outside

Gonna wash my face

Grab my hat

Put it on my head

I take a walk downtown

Yeah Because I feel so-oh good

I think I'm gonna take a walk downtown

Hey Sunrise

Wo

Somethin' I never seen before

Been walkin' down the street every day

Nobody like you ever passed my way

Maybe it must be too much sun

Couldn't be my hat must be too much

Wait a minute Is that you

What's that What what's that

What what's that What

Dummy Up

What is that

I know what that is I know what that is

I bet you that's a restaurant menu

Let me see Let me see

Not only do you get the Desenex burger

What

Not only the Desenex burger

Well you are in for a real treat Jim

Wait a minute I think I like that dance better than

What are you talkin' about creep

What I'm talkin' about is you've been in this killer fog down here too long

What

You need somethin' to get up and go to school with

Wait a minute you're not talkin' to an old fool now

You know I wasn't born yesterday

Heh heh heh

Wait a minute

I like that little dance you were doin' there

(Jeff Simmons tries to corrupt Napoleon Murphy Brock by showing him a lewd dance and suggesting that he'd smoke a high-school diploma )

Hey Wait a minute

Hey this this stuff

I never seen one of these before that's not a menu

This stuff is expensive

What is that

You shoot it you'll conserve all winter

I do what

It lasts longer

(Not only do you get the Desenex burger)

Now come on try it

No no

It's really good

No Smoke THAT

Have I ever lied to you

Have I ever seen you before

I don't I don't even know you

Look

I don't even know what that is

And you're drivin' me to smoke it

Just before we smoked the tapes that you made

Smoked the tapes

Smoked the tapes of your group

I think I'm with the damned

You can really get off

Let's try a joint of this

A what

A joint

You mean this kinda joint

No man

Where you been in livin' Reseda

No San Jose

(The evil d**e pusher is cutting up a white gym sock Formerly owned by Carl Zappa and still damp The shredded sock will be placed inside of a high-school diploma And ignited with a sulphur-preparation His first taste of big city life )

That's okay wait

Hey The roach of this is really gonna be good so I'll

Have mercy

What do you do with that thing

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THAT THING YEAH

Wait a minute

Wait a minute

What do you do with that thing

I wanna know

Wait a minute

(Now the next step of this operation: The evil corrupter of youth is going to take him from Step One Which is a mere high-school diploma stuffed with a gym sock To Step Two Which is a college-degree stuffed with absolutely nothing at all Smoke that and it'll really get you out there )

I still don't feel as good as I felt this mornin' yeah yeah

(You'll grow out of it )

DUMMY UP

I heard it again somebody said

You see this

Wait a minute

College

College

That's college-rhythm

You mean if I smoke that it's the same as this

As if I was at college

Roll it on up

Roll it on up

Roll it on up

Give me that

No no the college degree is stuffed with absolutely nothing at all

You get you get nothing with your college-degree

But that's what I want

I forgot I'm sorry

Well if you get nothin' well that's what I want

(A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want The results of a higher education )