The Crab-Grass Baby Lyrics

The song The Crab-Grass Baby is performed by Frank Zappa in the album named Thing Fish in the year 1995 .



Frank zappa (guitar, synclavier)
Steve vai (guitar)
Ray white (guitar, vocals)
Tommy mars (keyboards)
Chuck wild (piano)
Arthur barrow (ba*s)
Scott thunes (ba*s)
Jay anderson (string ba*s)
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)

Crab-gra*s baby:
Stroke me pompadour, pompaduooor, pompaduooor, pompaduooor. stroke me pompadour, father. stroke it nicely while I tell you about the problems I am having with my car an my girlfriend. ooo-wo-woo
White man's burden!

Her and her girlfriend used to go out and booze it up and tear up the upholstery; rip the seats completely out, and so I got a fifty-six olds. about the time I got it running decently, she got i
And wrecked the trans...tore it completely up, so I had to get another oldsmobile (either that or go to tijuana or go to brown moses way down in egypt-land). it's so hard on a child when his car
Ucked up. buy me a volvo, faaather.

Harry-as-a-boy:
Isn't it terrific, artificial rhonda!

Crab-gra*s baby:
One-adam-twelve...see the enormous white pompadour! ha-ha-ha-ho! that's a good one! hoo-hoo-hoo.

Harry-as-a-boy:
He's so young, and yet, so wise!

Crab-gra*s baby:
I pooped my pants, pooped my pants, pooped my pants! I went doody, faaather, sob-sob-sob-sob-sob.

Harry-as-a-boy:
His vocabulary is astonishing!

Crab-gra*s baby:
So what if you s*ck a little cock every once in a while?

Harry-as-a-boy:
Ohhh...i'm so lucky to have a son like this...

Crab-gra*s baby:
Barf me out...gag me with a volvo!

Harry-as-a-boy:
I can't wait to show him to all the fellas down at the mine-shaft!

Crab-gra*s baby:
Take me to the movies. buy me a balloon. stroke me pompadour!

Harry-as-a-boy:
Look! look! look at the pecker on him, wouldja! goodjy-goodjy-goodjy-goo! hoo hoo hoo!

Thing-fish:
Dis boy have a 'provlem'! however, how 'bout a nice round of applause fo de three 'wise mammies', comin' atcha outa chute numba five!




Frank Zappa - Thing Fish

May 1995

  1. Prologue
  2. The Mammy Nuns
  3. Harry And Rhonda
  4. Galoot Update
  5. The 'Torchum' Never Stops
  6. That Evil Prince
  7. You Are What You Is
  8. Mudd Club
  9. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
  10. Clowns On Velvet
  11. Harry-As-A-Boy
  12. He's So Gay
  13. The Massive Improve'lence
  14. Artificial Rhonda
  15. The Crab-Grass Baby
  16. The White Boy Troubles
  17. No Not Now
  18. Briefcase Boogie
  19. Brown Moses
  20. Wistful Wit A Fist-Full
  21. Drop Dead
  22. Won Ton On


The Crab-Grass Baby