Fee Lyrics

The song Fee is performed by Phish in the album named At the Roxy in the year 2008 .



In the cool shade of the banana tree
On the rugged trail toward the balcony
A child of the twentieth century
A dried up Goliath and a weasel named Fee

Far away in another place
A fading beauty named Milly Grace
A gospel singer with pox on her face
And a bamboo cane to help her keep the pace

Fee was a Buddhist prodigy
Long past the age of maturity
Someday he knew it would set him free
Like it did for Floyd the chimpanzee

Oh, Fee, you're trying to live a life
That's completely free.
You're racing with the wind
You're flirting with death
So have a cup of coffee
And catch your breath

Fee first met Milly in a bar in Peru
His heart was jumping like a kangaroo
Like a beast in a cage in an old Dutch zoo
It was hopping and thumping in wooden shoes

But Floyd was jealous and alone
He wanted Milly for his own
A desperate craving in his bones
"Their love", he said, "I will not condone."

Then one day on a ship to Quebec
Floyd found Milly on a lover's trek
He picked up a bottle and broke off the neck
It sliced through the air, and Fee hit the deck

Oh, Fee, you're trying to live a life
That's completely free
You want to stay with Milly
Until you're dead
But you just got a bottle
Upside your head

Milly turned and began to scream at Floyd
said "You think you're pretty mean"
And though she was as thin as a small string bean
She slammed him in the face with a nectarine

Floyd fell back over the edge of the ship
Till he hung from the rail by his fingertip
said, "Floyd I'll make you lose your grip
With this tiny piece of paper I can make you slip"

So Milly took that paper and did the deed
Floyd hit the water with astonishing speed
And as the sharks circled and began to feed
Milly knew her weasel was finally free

Oh, Fee, you're trying to live a life
That's completely free
Floyd is dead; he's nothing but a ripple
Cause Milly took that paper
And sliced him on the nipple



Phish - At the Roxy

Nov 2008

  1. Loving Cup
  2. Rift
  3. Split Open and Melt
  4. Fee
  5. Maze
  6. Colonel Forbin's Ascent
  7. Fly Famous Mockingbird
  8. Sparkle
  9. My Friend, My Friend
  10. Poor Heart
  11. David Bowie/Moby Dick
  12. Runaway Jim
  13. It's Ice
  14. Paul and Silas
  15. You Enjoy Myself
  16. Ya Mar
  17. Big Ball Jam
  18. Lawn Boy
  19. Funky Bitch
  20. My Sweet One
  21. Hold Your Head Up/Love You/Hold Your Head Up
  22. Llama
  23. Amazing Grace
  24. AC/DC Bag
  25. Golgi Apparatus
  26. Foam
  27. The Sloth
  28. Possum
  29. Weigh
  30. All Things Reconsidered
  31. The Divided Sky
  32. The Horse
  33. Silent In The Morning
  34. Fluffhead
  35. Cavern
  36. Wilson
  37. Reba
  38. Tweezer
  39. Walk Away
  40. Tweezer
  41. Glide
  42. Mike's Song
  43. My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own
  44. Mike's Song
  45. I Am Hydrogen
  46. Vibration Of Life
  47. Kung
  48. I Am Hydrogen
  49. Weekapaug Groove
  50. Have Mercy
  51. Weekapaug Groove
  52. Rock And Roll All Nite
  53. Weekapaug Groove
  54. Fast Enough For You
  55. Big Ball Jam
  56. Hold Your Head Up/Terrapin/Hold Your Head Up
  57. Harry Hood
  58. Tweezer Reprise
  59. Sleeping Monkey
  60. Suzy Greenberg
  61. Buried Alive
  62. Punch You In The Eye
  63. Uncle Pen
  64. Horn
  65. Chalk Dust Torture
  66. Esther
  67. Dinner And A Movie
  68. Bouncing Around The Room
  69. Run Like An Antelope
  70. Axilla
  71. The Curtain
  72. Stash
  73. Manteca
  74. Stash
  75. The Lizards
  76. Bathtub Gin
  77. Hold Your Head Up/Cracklin' Rosie/Hold Your Head Up/Tuning
  78. The Squirming Coil
  79. Big Black Furry Creature From Mars
  80. Sweet Adeline
  81. Good Times, Bad Times
  82. Paul and Silas
  83. Pig In A Pen

Fee