Man With The Woman Head lyrics

Song information

Artist: Frank Zappa
Album: Bongo Fury

Lyrics

Frank zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Captain beefheart (harp, vocals)
George duke (keyboards, vocals)
Napoleon murphy brock (saxophone, vocals)
Bruce fowler (trombone)
Tom fowler (bass)
Denny walley (slide guitar, vocals)
Terry bozzio (drums)

Are you with me on this people?

The man with the woman head
Polynesian wallpaper made the face stand out
A mixture of oriental and early vaudeville jazz poofter
Forming a hard, beetle-like triangular chin much like a praying mantis
Smoky razor-cut, low on the ear neck profile
The face the color of a nicotine-stained hand
Dark circles collected under the wrinkled, folded eyes
Map-like from too much turquoise eyepaint
He showed his old tongue through ill-fitting wooden teeth
Stained from too much opium, chipped from the years
The feet, brown wrinkles above straw loafers
A piece of cocoanut in a pink seashell caught the tongue
And knotted into thin white strings
Charcoal grey eisenhower jacket zipped into a load(?) of green ascot
A coil of ashes collected on the white-on-yellow dacs
Four slender bones with rings and nails
Endured the weight of a hard fast black rubber cigarette holder
I could just make out ace as he carried the tray and mouthed
"You cheap son of a bitch"
As a straw fell out of a coke, cartwheeled into the gutter
So this was a drive-in restaurant in hollywood
So this was a drive-in restaurant in hollywood
So this was a drive-in restaurant in hollywood