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===Singles===
 
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[[One Size Fits All]]
 
===Tribute & Cover Albums===
 
===Tribute & Cover Albums===
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*[[Nasal Retentive Orchestra]]: [[Music For Hungry People]]
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==Notes About This Song==
 
==Notes About This Song==
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''""Evelyn, A Modified Dog" is a reference to an echidna. The L.A. Zoo has a program where you help to pay for the support of the animals by adopting them. So we adopted the echidna. And that means that we gave them one ''<indecipherable word>'' so that all the food for the echidna for his life will be paid for by us. And then you get a little plaque on the animals' cage. So that's Evelyn."''
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- Frank Zappa, in an interview with [[Co de Kloet]] on [[The Supplement Tape]].
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==CC Clues In This Song==
 
==CC Clues In This Song==
  
[[Evelyn]]
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* [[Evelyn]]
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* [[Killer Collie]]
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* [[Arf!]]
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* A Steinway piano would later be mentioned again in [[A Very Nice Body]] and [[Religious Superstition]].
  
[[Killer Collie]]
 
 
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[[Category:Animals]]

Revision as of 14:57, 24 November 2011

Lyrics

Evelyn, a modified dog
Viewed the quivering fringe of a special doily
Draped across the piano, with some surprise

In the darkened room
Where the chairs dismayed
And the horrible curtains
Muffled the rain
She could hardly believe her eyes

A curious breeze
A garlic breath
Which sounded like a snore
Somewhere near the Steinway (or even from within)
Had caused the doily fringe to waft & tremble in the gloom

Evelyn, a dog, having undergone
Further modification
Pondered the significance of short-person behavior
In pedal-depressed panchromatic resonance
And other highly ambient domains . . .

Arf she said

Players On This Song

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Singles

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One Size Fits All

Tribute & Cover Albums

Notes About This Song

""Evelyn, A Modified Dog" is a reference to an echidna. The L.A. Zoo has a program where you help to pay for the support of the animals by adopting them. So we adopted the echidna. And that means that we gave them one <indecipherable word> so that all the food for the echidna for his life will be paid for by us. And then you get a little plaque on the animals' cage. So that's Evelyn." - Frank Zappa, in an interview with Co de Kloet on The Supplement Tape.

CC Clues In This Song