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Duncan: /* Lyrics */

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Lyrics

Duncan at 11:56, 22 November 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 23:51, 17 July 2021

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Spider of Destiny at 14:14, 27 May 2011

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Fishbrain: Added Notes and CCC

2007-11-23T02:31:47Z

Added Notes and CCC

Fishbrain: New page: ==Lyrics== Once upon a time
Way back a long time ago,
When the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate than
Mark Bolman

Oh, thank you Frank! And don't misspell it...

2007-11-21T20:41:07Z

New page: ==Lyrics== Once upon a time Way back a long time ago, When the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate than Mark Bolman Oh, thank you Frank! And don't misspell it...

New page

==Lyrics==
Once upon a time 
Way back a long time ago, 
When the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate than 
Mark Bolman 
 
Oh, thank you Frank! And don't misspell it: 
That's not Marc Bolan, that's Mark Volman 
Hiya friends! 
I wanna welcome each and everyone of you 
I wanna say to you tonight, I feel great! 
I mean, I feel great! 
Everywhere I go people are always comin' up to me 
And they say: "Mark, Mark, Mark... Mark are you kiddin'?" 
Lemme tell you this friends: I am not kiddin'! 
I mean, I am portly and I am maroon 
Well, how many people here tonight can guess what I am? 
 
Aaaah 
I can't guess what you are 
 
Well, then I'll give you some clues 
And the first clue is: I am portly 
Does that help? 
 
Not much 
No, I don't know who you are 
 
Okay, I got one 
Clue number two: I am double knit 
Does that help? 
 
No, not much 
Whaddya mean? 
 
Well, then I've to give you one more clue 
I know this is gonna give it away 
And I hate like damn to tell you this 
But clue number three: Ich bin Maroon! 
 
Ahhhhhhhh you're a sofa! 
 
Once upon a time 
Way back a long time ago, 
When the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate than 
Mark Volman ... 
 
Thank you, Frank 
 
... trying to convince each and every member of this extremely hip audience here tonight, 
that he was nothing more, nothing less than a fat maroon sofa, 
suspended in the midst of a great emptiness a light shined down from heaven 
(* twinkling sounds *) 
 
And there he was ladies and gentleman, the good lord. 
And he took, he took a look at the sofa, and he said to himself 
"Quite an attractive sofa! This sofa could be commercial... 
with a few more Margaritas and the right company." 
However, I digress. 
"What this sofa needs," said the Big 'G', "Is a bit of flooring underneath of it" 
and so in order to make this construction project possible, 
he summoned the assistance of the celestial corp of engineers, and, 
by means of a cute little song in the German language 
(which is the way he talks whenever it's heavy business) 
the Good Lord went something like this: 
(take it away Jim Pons!) 
 
Gib zu mir etwas Fussbodenbelag 
unter diesem fetten fliessenden Sofa 
Gib zu mir etwas Fussbodenbelag 
unter diesem fetten fliessenden Sofa 
 
And of course ladies and gentlemen that means: 
"Give unto me a bit of flooring under this fat floating sofa." 
And sure enough boards of oak appeared throughout the emptiness as far as vision permits, 
stretching all the way from Belfast to Bogner Regis 
and the Lord put aside his huge cigar and proceeded to deliver unto the charming maroonish sofa 
the bulk of his message with the assistance of a small electric clarinet 
and it went something like this... 
==Players On This Song==
==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
===Singles===
===Zappa Albums & Side Projects===
[[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1]]

===Tribute & Cover Albums===
==Notes About This Song==
See also: [[Sofa No]], [[German]].
==CC Clues In This Song==
[[Category:Tracks]]

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 "Give unto me a bit of flooring under this fat floating sofa."<br>
 And sure enough boards of oak appeared throughout the emptiness as far as vision permits,<br>
-stretching all the way from Belfast to Bogner Regis<ref>The lyrics were often changed to reflect the location of the concert.  Here two locations in the UK.  Zappa had recorded a piece called Bognor Regis in 1969 which was widely bootlegged before its official release as part of the [[The Hot Rats Sessions]] in 2019.</ref><br>
+stretching all the way from Belfast to Bognor Regis<ref>The lyrics were often changed to reflect the location of the concert.  Here two locations in the UK.  Zappa had recorded a piece called Bognor Regis in 1969 which was widely bootlegged before its official release as part of the [[The Hot Rats Sessions]] in 2019.</ref><br>
 and the Lord put aside his huge cigar and proceeded to deliver unto the charming maroonish sofa<br>
 the bulk of his message with the assistance of a small electric clarinet<br>
 and it went something like this... <br>
 ==Players On This Song==
 See concert link below

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 Ahhhhhhhh you're a sofa! <br>
 <br>
 Way back a long time ago,<br>
 When the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate than<br>
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 that he was nothing more, nothing less than a fat maroon sofa,<br>
 suspended in the midst of a great emptiness a light shined down from heaven<br>
 <br>
 And there he was ladies and gentleman, the good lord.<br>
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 "Give unto me a bit of flooring under this fat floating sofa."<br>
 And sure enough boards of oak appeared throughout the emptiness as far as vision permits,<br>
-stretching all the way from Belfast to Bogner Regis<br>
+stretching all the way from Belfast to Bogner Regis<ref>The lyrics were often changed to reflect the location of the concert.  Here two locations in the UK.  Zappa had recorded a piece called Bognor Regis in 1969 which was widely bootlegged before its official release as part of the [[The Hot Rats Sessions]] in 2019.</ref><br>
 and the Lord put aside his huge cigar and proceeded to deliver unto the charming maroonish sofa<br>
 the bulk of his message with the assistance of a small electric clarinet<br>
 and it went something like this... <br>
 ==Players On This Song==
-==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
+See concert link below
-===Singles===
-===Zappa Albums & Side Projects===
+==Recordings==
-[[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1]]
+Recorded at [[71/12/10 London UK Rainbow Theatre| Rainbow, London December 1971]] and released on [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1]]
 ==Notes About This Song==
-*This song was part of the lost [[Sofa|Sofa Suite]].
+<references/>
 ==CC Clues In This Song==

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 ===Tribute & Cover Albums===
 ==Notes About This Song==
-See also: [[Sofa No]], [[German]].
 ==CC Clues In This Song==
 [[Category:Tracks]]