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Artist: Frank Zappa
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No Not Now (in album Thing-fish)
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No Not Now (in album Thing-fish)
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Frank Zappa (guitar, synclavier)
Steve Vai (guitar)
Ray White (guitar, vocals)
Tommy Mars (keyboards)
Chuck Wild (piano)
Arthur Barrow (bass)
Scott Thunes (bass)
Jay Anderson (string bass)
Ed Mann (percussion)
Chad Wackerman (drums)
Ike Willis (vocals)
Terry Bozzio (vocals)
Dale Bozzio (vocals)
Napoleon Murphy Brock (vocals)
Bob Harris (vocals)
Johnny "Guitar" Watson (vocals)
THING-FISH:
Wooo! Looka-dat! A big ol' truck, 'n a box uh NODOZ...'n ovuh deah, a greazy ol' dinuh, where yo rubber bitch kin reassume part-time employment in her former professium: slingin' hash in de directium o' de blue-collar community!
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No not now
THING-FISH:
Yep! Hafta do it now!
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No not now
THING-FISH:
Now's a good a time as any!
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No not now
THING-FISH:
Dis ERMERICA, boy!
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No not now
THING-FISH:
I never promised you no Rose Garden!
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Maybe later
THING-FISH:
Ain't gone be no 'LATER'!
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Maybe later
THING-FISH:
You got a hard row to hoe!
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She say I'm free
THING-FISH:
She not exackly 'FREE'!
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She say I'm free
THING-FISH:
Mo' like 'AVAILABLE FO' A LIMITED TIME ONLY'...
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She say I'm free
THING-FISH:
Fo part-time industrial peruse-ment!
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She say I'm free,
THING-FISH:
Look like ol' Quentim come back to peruse her one mo' time...
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But I like her sister,
THING-FISH:
Wanna 'peruse' her sister, too...
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But I like her sister
THING-FISH:
Dat what dem Gospel Folks dream 'bouts doin' in a dinuh!
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She can't decide
THING-FISH:
Now RHONDA can't decide...
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Whom she wanna ride
THING-FISH:
Ain't been ridin' no salami fum de wimp!
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She can't decide
THING-FISH:
I know she gwine be ridin' sumphin' putty soon...
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Whom she wanna ride
THING-FISH:
Ain't gone be no 'Hobby-Horse' neetuh!
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Tonight
THING-FISH:
She need it tonite!
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Tonight
THING-FISH:
Any minnit now!
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Tonight
THING-FISH:
She so hot, it makin' her apron wrinkle, 'n smoke come pourin' out de back o' dat stupid paper hat!
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She changed her mind
THING-FISH:
Her rubber mind...
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She changed her mind
THING-FISH:
One o' de greatest minds of our time!
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She changed her mind
THING-FISH:
De girl gots 'talent'!
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She changed her mind
THING-FISH:
An' she 'rinse-able', too!
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And I don't blame her
THING-FISH:
I don't blame her fo' rinsin' out what she had in dat mouf!
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And I don't blame her
THING-FISH:
But de bitch gotta earn a livin'!
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No not now (No no not now)
THING-FISH:
Now when she NEEDS it!
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No not now (No no not now)
THING-FISH:
De wimp jes' mights fall asleep at de wheel!
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No not now (No no not now)
THING-FISH:
Git himseff all mashed up...
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No not now (No no not now)
THING-FISH:
An' lookin' like a pancake!
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Maybe later
THING-FISH:
Thass right! It COULD happen later!
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Maybe later
THING-FISH:
Dis de MAMMY NUN SHOW, folks! ANYTHING can happen! Shut up! You needs a vacatium, boy! You gots de 'WHITE LINE FEVUM'! Coupla donuts 'n some cowboy music fix ya right up! Breaker-breaker! Git down wit de 'come-back! Sleepy wimp seek lastin' relationship wit anally-oriented 'luminum sidin' salesman!
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The big ol' hat
THING-FISH:
Wit a big ol' hat!
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The cowboy pants
THING-FISH:
An' some cowboy pants!
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Transcontinental
THING-FISH:
Built like a trans-continentum...
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Hobby horse
THING-FISH:
Hobby-hobby hoss!
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String beans to Utah
THING-FISH:
Thass right!
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String beans to Utah
THING-FISH:
Tonight!
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Ah, the wife!
THING-FISH:
Ah, the wife!
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Oh, the waitress!
THING-FISH:
An' de waitress too!
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Oh, the drive...
THING-FISH:
Oh, 'THE DRIVE'!
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All night long
THING-FISH:
All night long!
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String beans to Utah
THING-FISH:
Yum-yum!
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String beans to Utah Deliver string beans to Utah tonight
THING-FISH:
Giddyup!
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I better go fast Or they won't be all right
THING-FISH:
All right!
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Deliver string beans To Utah tonight
THING-FISH:
Yum-yum!
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Donnie 'n Marie Can both take a bite
THING-FISH:
Bite it, Marie!
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Hawaiian - Hawaiian - Hawaiian Lunch
THING-FISH:
Hawaiian lunch!
ENSEMBLE:
No not now
(No no not now)
No not now
(No no no no not now)
No not now
(No no not now)
No not now
(No no no no not now)
Maybe later
Maybe later
She changed her mind
(She changed her mind)
She changed her mind
(You know she changed her mind)
She changed her mind
(She changed her mind)
She changed her mind
(You know she changed her mind)
And I don't blame her
And I don't blame her
She's sorta wild
(She wild, she wild)
She's sorta wild
(Really wild, really wild)
She's sorta wild
(She wild, she wild)
A crazy child
(Crazy child, crazy child)
Tonight - tonight - tonight
ENSEMBLE: (contd.)
There she goes
THING-FISH:
Ooooh! There she goes!
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Up and down
THING-FISH:
Ooooh! Up and down!
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Ride that bull
THING-FISH:
She's ridin' de bull!
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All around
THING-FISH:
All around!
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The best in town
THING-FISH:
She de best in town!
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Oh she goes
THING-FISH:
She go up, she go down!
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Up and down
THING-FISH:
I said up an' down!
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Oh that bull!
THING-FISH:
De whole bull!
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The whole bull!
THING-FISH:
De WHOLE BULL!
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The whole bull!
THING-FISH:
De whole damn thing!
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The best in town
THING-FISH:
Where she go? Ebzn-sauce!
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