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==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
| + | <br>Ow ow ow ow | ||
| + | <br>Rundee rundee rundee | ||
| + | <br>Dinny wop wop | ||
| + | <br>Ow ow ow ow | ||
| + | <br>Rundee rundee rundee | ||
| + | <br>Dinny wop wop | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <br>Electric Aunt Jemima | ||
| + | <br>Goddess of Love | ||
| + | <br>Khaki Maple Buckwheats | ||
| + | <br>Frizzle on the stove | ||
| + | <br>Queen of my heart | ||
| + | <br>Please hear my plea | ||
| + | <br>Electric Aunt Jemima | ||
| + | <br>Cook a bunch for me | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <br>Tried to find a reason | ||
| + | <br>Not to quit my job | ||
| + | <br>Beat me till I'm hungry | ||
| + | <br>Found a punk to rob | ||
| + | <br>Love me Aunt Jemima | ||
| + | <br>Love me now & ever more | ||
| + | <br>(Love me Aunt Jemima) | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <br>Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit-dit | ||
| + | <br>Dit-dit-dit-dit ditty-ditty | ||
| + | <br>Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit-dit | ||
| + | <br>Dit-dit-dit-dit ditty-ditty | ||
| + | <br>Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit-dit | ||
| + | <br>Dit-dit-dit-dit ditty-ditty | ||
| + | <br>Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit-dit dit . . . | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <br>Tried to find a raisin | ||
| + | <br>Brownies in the basin | ||
| + | <br>Monza by the street light | ||
| + | <br>Aunt Jemima all night | ||
| + | <br>Holiday & salad days | ||
| + | <br>And days of mouldy mayonnaise | ||
| + | <br>Caress me (ah!) | ||
| + | <br>Caress me (ah!) | ||
| + | <br>Caress me Aunt Jemima | ||
| + | <br>Caress me (ah!) | ||
| + | <br>Caress me Aunt Jemima | ||
| + | <br>Caress me (ah!) | ||
| + | <br>Caress me Aunt Jemima | ||
| + | <br>Caress me (ah!) | ||
| + | <br>Caress me Aunt Jemima | ||
| + | <br>Caress me (ah!) | ||
| + | <br>Caress me Aunt Jemima | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <br>Mmm, boy, my lips are gettin' heavy | ||
| + | <br>I can't tell when you're telling the truth . . . | ||
| + | <br>I'm not. | ||
| + | <br>How do I know anything you've said to me is . . . | ||
| + | <br>You don't. | ||
==Players On This Song== | ==Players On This Song== | ||
==Albums In Which This Song Has Appeared== | ==Albums In Which This Song Has Appeared== | ||
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| + | [[Uncle Meat]] | ||
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==Notes About This Song== | ==Notes About This Song== | ||
| − | "Electric Aunt Jemima" was | + | "Electric Aunt Jemima" was Zappa's nickname for his guitar amplifier. |
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| − | I get kind of a laugh out of the fact that other people are going to try and interpret that stuff and come up with some grotesque, I mean really grotesque, interpretations of it. It gives me a certain amount of satisfaction. You can imagine how insane that must get on a song 'Electric Aunt Jemima' which was written about an amplifier. Yes, it's a Standall amplifier, about this big, that I used on a couple of sessions. But there are some other references in the song to a meeting held in the Denny's Coffee Shop in Lancaster California about six or seven years ago at about four o'clock in the morning. Don Vliet, who is otherwise known to the world as Captain Beefheart, and I were sitting in this coffee shop discussing what we were going to do to the music business, and it's the line about 'Monza' because we were discussing the problems of lyrics in the music we were being fed on the radio. I always felt that the music I grew up with, except for the rhythm & blues, was just horrible and I didn't want to be subjected to it and I wished that I'd had something better to choose from. But I couldn't get anything better so we were talking about this and I said, 'Well I'm going to do this', and Don says, 'Well, I'm going to do that', and I said, 'OK, well let's go do that'. | + | <blockquote> |
| − | + | I get kind of a laugh out of the fact that other people are going to try and interpret that stuff and come up with some grotesque, I mean really grotesque, interpretations of it. It gives me a certain amount of satisfaction. You can imagine how insane that must get on a song 'Electric Aunt Jemima' which was written about an amplifier. Yes, it's a Standall amplifier, about this big, that I used on a couple of sessions. But there are some other references in the song to a meeting held in the Denny's Coffee Shop in Lancaster California about six or seven years ago at about four o'clock in the morning. Don Vliet, who is otherwise known to the world as Captain Beefheart, and I were sitting in this coffee shop discussing what we were going to do to the music business, and it's the line about 'Monza' because we were discussing the problems of lyrics in the music we were being fed on the radio. I always felt that the music I grew up with, except for the rhythm & blues, was just horrible and I didn't want to be subjected to it and I wished that I'd had something better to choose from. But I couldn't get anything better so we were talking about this and I said, 'Well I'm going to do this', and Don says, 'Well, I'm going to do that', and I said, 'OK, well let's go do that'.</blockquote> | |
| + | <Div align="right">Frank Zappa interview International Times (issue 63) 1969</div> | ||
==CC Clues In This Song== | ==CC Clues In This Song== | ||
Revision as of 00:35, 4 March 2006
Contents
Lyrics
Ow ow ow ow
Rundee rundee rundee
Dinny wop wop
Ow ow ow ow
Rundee rundee rundee
Dinny wop wop
Electric Aunt Jemima
Goddess of Love
Khaki Maple Buckwheats
Frizzle on the stove
Queen of my heart
Please hear my plea
Electric Aunt Jemima
Cook a bunch for me
Tried to find a reason
Not to quit my job
Beat me till I'm hungry
Found a punk to rob
Love me Aunt Jemima
Love me now & ever more
(Love me Aunt Jemima)
Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit-dit
Dit-dit-dit-dit ditty-ditty
Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit-dit
Dit-dit-dit-dit ditty-ditty
Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit-dit
Dit-dit-dit-dit ditty-ditty
Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit-dit-dit dit . . .
Tried to find a raisin
Brownies in the basin
Monza by the street light
Aunt Jemima all night
Holiday & salad days
And days of mouldy mayonnaise
Caress me (ah!)
Caress me (ah!)
Caress me Aunt Jemima
Caress me (ah!)
Caress me Aunt Jemima
Caress me (ah!)
Caress me Aunt Jemima
Caress me (ah!)
Caress me Aunt Jemima
Caress me (ah!)
Caress me Aunt Jemima
Mmm, boy, my lips are gettin' heavy
I can't tell when you're telling the truth . . .
I'm not.
How do I know anything you've said to me is . . .
You don't.
Players On This Song
Albums In Which This Song Has Appeared
Notes About This Song
"Electric Aunt Jemima" was Zappa's nickname for his guitar amplifier.
I get kind of a laugh out of the fact that other people are going to try and interpret that stuff and come up with some grotesque, I mean really grotesque, interpretations of it. It gives me a certain amount of satisfaction. You can imagine how insane that must get on a song 'Electric Aunt Jemima' which was written about an amplifier. Yes, it's a Standall amplifier, about this big, that I used on a couple of sessions. But there are some other references in the song to a meeting held in the Denny's Coffee Shop in Lancaster California about six or seven years ago at about four o'clock in the morning. Don Vliet, who is otherwise known to the world as Captain Beefheart, and I were sitting in this coffee shop discussing what we were going to do to the music business, and it's the line about 'Monza' because we were discussing the problems of lyrics in the music we were being fed on the radio. I always felt that the music I grew up with, except for the rhythm & blues, was just horrible and I didn't want to be subjected to it and I wished that I'd had something better to choose from. But I couldn't get anything better so we were talking about this and I said, 'Well I'm going to do this', and Don says, 'Well, I'm going to do that', and I said, 'OK, well let's go do that'.
