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Artist: Frank Zappa
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Montana (Whipping Floss)
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Montana (Whipping Floss)
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Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Napoleon Murphy Brock (saxophone, vocals)
George Duke (keyboards, vocals)
Ruth Underwood (percussion)
Tom Fowler (bass)
Chester Thompson (drums)
Whipping Post!
Say that again please
Whipping Post!
Whipping Post? Ok, just a second
(Do you know that?)
Oh sorry, we don't know that one
Anything else?
Hum me a few bars of it...please
Just show me how it goes, please
Just sing, sing me Whipping Post
and then maybe we'll play it with you
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Thank you very much
And now...
Judging from the way you sang it,
it must be a John Cage composition, right?
Here we go...Montana
One two, one two three four
I might be movin' to...
Hold it! Hold it!
We can't possibly start the song off like that!
Good god!!!
That's inexcusable!
What happened to you last night?
(George has a tape of it)
George has a tape of it?
Ok, we'll use that in the second show
Ready? Montana...
Wait a minute...Whipping Post
No...Montana
One two, one two three four
It's too fast for you!
One two, one two three four
I might be moving to Helsinki soon
Just to raise me up a crop of
Dental Floss
Raisin' it up
Waxen it down
Tying it to the Whipping Post
In the middle of town
But by myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
Cause I'd be raisin' my lonely
Whipping Post
Raisin' my lonely
Whipping Post
Raisin' my lonely
Whipping Post
Well I just might grow me some thongs
But I'd leave the hippy stuff
To somebody else...how 'bout Chester?
And then I would
Get a person
Tie him up
To the Whipping Post
And beat the living shit out of him
So that guy in the audience was satisfied
But by myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
'Cause I'd be raisin' my lonely
Whipping Post-Floss
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon (how unique!)
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a mennil-toss flykune
(yes, it's such a ballad at this tempo)
Little Booger-bear
Boogers everywhere
And now for the thrilling conclusion to that song...
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