Who Needs The Peace Corps?
Lyrics
What's there to live for?
Who needs the peace corps?
Think I'll just DROP OUT
I'll go to Frisco, buy a wig & sleep on Owsley's floor
Walked past the wig store
Danced at the Fillmore
I'm completely stoned
I'm hippy & I'm trippy, I'm a gypsy on my own
I'll stay a week & get the crabs & take a bus back home
I'm really just a phony but forgive me 'cause I'm stoned
Every town must have a place where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO!
How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya Frisco!
How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya
Oh, my hair is getting good in the back!
Every town must have a place where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO!
Hotcha!
First I'll buy some beads
And then perhaps a leather band to go around my head
Some feathers and bells
And a book of Indian lore
I will ask the Chamber of Commerce how to get to Haight Street
And smoke an awful lot of dope
I will wander around barefoot
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
I will love everyone
I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street
I will sleep...
I will, I will go to a house...
That's, that's what I will do:
I will go to a house where there's a rock & roll band 'cause the groups all live together
And I will join a rock & roll band and I will be their road manager
And I will stay there with them and I will get the crabs
But I won't care because...
Players On This Song
THE BEST BAND YOU NEVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE version
- Frank Zappa - lead guitar, computer-synth, vocal
- Ike Willis - rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
- Mike Keneally - rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
- Bobby Martin - keyboards, vocal
- Ed Mann - vibes, marimba, electronic percussion
- Walt Fowler - trumpet, flugel horn, synth
- Bruce Fowler - trombone
- Paul Carman - alto sax, soprano sax, baritone sax
- Albert Wing - tenor sax
- Kurt McGettrick - baritone sax, bass sax, contrabass clarinet
- Scott Thunes - electric bass, mini-moog
- Chad Wackerman - drums, electronic percussion
Records On Which This Song Has Appeared
Zappa Albums
- We're Only In It For The Money
- The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
- Understanding America
- Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show
Tributes & Cover Albums
Notes About This Song
- The line "I'll go to Frisco/buy a wig/and sleep on Owsley's floor" refers to Owsley Stanley, who prepared LSD experiments like a cook and was the longtime soundman and financier for the Grateful Dead.
- On The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life version, Mike Keneally sings parts in his Johnny Cash voice. The joke is that Cash is the exact opposite of the hippie they portray him to be in the song.
CC Clues In This Song
- The hippies in the song are heavily associated with Lice ("I'll stay a week [in San Francisco] & get the crabs & take a bus back home", "And I will stay there with them [the rock & roll band] and I will get the crabs but I won't care...").
- Targets Hippies
- References Gypsies
- Mentions San Francisco
