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Let's Make The Water Turn Black

from The All New Frankly Don't​-​Wop Duo Collected by Fred Händl

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The All New Frankly Don't-Wop Due play Frank Zappa's Let's Make The Water Turn Black

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This is an instrumental, but feel free to sing along ...

Now believe me when I tell you that my song is really true
I want everyone to listen and believe
It's about some little people from a long time ago
And all the things the neighbors didn't know

Early in the morning, Daddy Dinky went to work
Selling lamps and chairs to San Ber'dino squares
And I still remember Mama with her apron and her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe

Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day
Ronnie helping Kenny, helping burn his poots away
And all the while on a shelf in the shed
Kenny's little creatures on display

Ronnie saves his pneumies on a window in his room
A marvel to be seen, dysentery green
While Kenny and his buddies had a game out in the back
Let's make the water turn black

We see them after school in a world of their own
To some it might seem creepy what they do
The neighbors on the right sat and watched them every night
I bet you'd do the same if they was you

Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day
Ronnie helping Kenny, helping burn his poots away
And all the while on a shelf in the shed
Kenny's little creatures on display

Ronnie's in the army now and Kenny's taking pills
Oh, how they yearn to see a bomber burn
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machine
Wait till the fire turns green
Wait till the fire turns green
Wait till the fire turns green

This would be a little bit of vocal teenage heaven, right here on Earth

Ronnie Williams (backwards):
Dodn-do-do-dodn-dodn-dodn-dada

credits

from The All New Frankly Don't​-​Wop Duo Collected, released July 14, 2023
Composed by Frank Zappa
Performed by Kevin Crosby and Fred Händl

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Fred Händl The Hague, Netherlands

1972. Pianist. Tutor. Composer. Performing musician. Author. Zappa nut.

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