Little House I Used To Live In

Lyrics

From Fillmore East, June 1971 version

Ooh! La-la la-la-la la-ra-la-la la-la-la La-la la-la-la la-ra-la-la la-laaaah!

Aynsley Dunbar!

Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya

Hoopla! Oink! Oink! La la la la . . . Aah!

Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya Ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya ya-ya-ya La la-la la-la-la La-la la-la-la-la la-la la-la La-la la-la la-la-la-la la-la la-la . . . Mud Shark

Albums In Which This Song Has Appeared

Zappa Albums

• Burnt Weeny Sandwich
• Fillmore East, June 1971
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 as Return Of The Hunch-Back Duke

Tributes & Cover Albums

• Meridian Arts Ensemble: Anxiety Of Influence as track 3 Little House I Used To Live In - Piano Intro and track 4 Little House I Used To Live In - Ensemble

CC Clues In This Song

"Aybe Sea" is played again, this time in concert along with other instruments playing different parts louder in the mix (some might even be sped-up and edited over the performance), toward the end of “Little House I Used to Live In,” a long piece whose other sections have their own titles (not listed on the album cover), such as “Little House,” “The Duke,” “Return of the Hunchback Duke,” “Return of the Son of the Hunchback Duke” and “Twinkle Tits.” The whole piece grew from a piano exercise that Frank had written in 1962. A restructured version of that initial exercise was played on electric piano during the “Concerto For Mothers and Orchestra” at the University of California at Los Angeles in May of 1970.

Starting with the return of “Aybe Sea,” the closing section of “Little House I Used to Live In” (and Frank’s subsequent comments to the audience) come from the Mothers’ 6/6/69 show at the Royal Albert Hall in London.