FRANK ZAPPA-"Dummy Up" LYRICS

[Napoleon:]

Sunrise

Get up in the mornin'

You know, I think it's mornin'

Sun is shinin' bright

I'm gonna get outside

Gonna wash my face

Grab my hat

Put it on my head

I take a walk downtown

Yeah-hey . . .

Because I feel so-oh good

I think I'm gonna take a walk downtown

Hey! Sunlight!

Wo!

Somethin' I never seen before

Been a-walkin' down the street every day

Nobody like you ever passed my way

Maybe there must be too much sun

Couldn't be my hat, must be too much . . .

Wait a minute!

What's that you . . . ?

What's that?

What . . . ?

What's that?

What . . . ?

What's that?

What . . . ?

[FZ:]

Dummy Up

[Napoleon:]

What is that?

I know what that is, I know what that is . . .

I bet you that's a restaurant menu . . .

Let me see!

Let me see!

[Jeff:] Not only do you get the Desenex burger . . . not only the Desenex burger . . . but you are in for a real treat, Jim

[Napoleon:] Wait a minute, I think I like that dance better than this . . . What are you talkin' about, creep?

[Jeff:] What I'm talkin' about is you've been in this killer fog down here too long

[Napoleon:] What?

[Jeff:] You need somethin' to get up and go to school with

[Napoleon:] Wait a minute, you're not talkin' to an old fool now, you know, I wasn't born yesterday!

[FZ:] (Heh heh heh!)

[Napoleon:] Wait a minute . . . I think I'll take . . .

[Jeff:] I like that little dance you were doin' down there . . .

[FZ:] Jeff Simmons tries to corrupt Napoleon Murphy Brock by showing him a lewd dance and suggesting that he'd smoke a high-school diploma . . .

[Napoleon:] Hey! What you . . . what you . . . ? Wait a minute!

[Jeff:] Hey this, this stuff . . .

[Napoleon:] I've never seen one of these before . . . that's not a menu?

[Jeff:] This stuff is expensive

[Napoleon:] What is that?

[Jeff:] You shoot it, you'll conserve all winter

[Napoleon:] I do what?

[Jeff:] It last longer

[FZ:] Not only do you get the Desenex burger

[Napoleon:] No . . . no . . .

[Jeff:] Now come on, try it

[Napoleon:] No, no, no

[Jeff:] It's really good

[Napoleon:] No . . . Smoke THAT?!

[Jeff:] Have I ever lied to you? Have I ever seen you before?

[Napoleon:] I don't, I don't even know you!

[Jeff:] Look . . .

[Napoleon:] I don't even know what that is!

[Jeff:] Just bef . . .

[Napoleon:] And you're tellin' me to smoke it?!

[Jeff:] Just before, we smoked the tapes that you made

[Napoleon:] Smoked the tapes?

[Jeff:] Smoked the tapes of your group

[Napoleon:] I think I'd rather dance

[Jeff:] You can really get off! Let's try a joint of this

[Napoleon:] A WHAT?!

[Jeff:] A joint!

[Napoleon:] You mean this kinda joint?

[Jeff:] No, man! Where you been in livin'? Reseda?

[Napoleon:] No, San Jose

[FZ:] The evil dope pusher is cutting up a white gym sock, formerly owned by Carl Zappa and still damp. The shredded sock will be placed inside of a high-school diploma And ignited with a sulphur preparation . . .

[Napoleon:] Wait a minute . . .

[FZ:] His first taste of big city life

[Napoleon:] That's okay, wait a minute . . . wait . . .

(DUMMY UP . . . )

[Jeff:] Hey! The roach of this is really gonna be good, so I'll save it . . .

[FZ:] Have mercy!

[George:] Awright . . . awright . . .

[Napoleon:]

What d'you do with that thing?

What do you do with that thing that you have?

Wait a minute

Wait a minute

Wait a minute

What do you do

With that thing?

I wanna know

[Napoleon:] Wait a minute

[FZ:] Now the next step of this operation

Napoleon: Wait a minute!

[FZ:] The evil corrupter of youth is going to take him from Step One, which is a mere high-school diploma stuffed with a gym sock, to Step Two, which is a college-degree stuffed with absolutely nothing at all. Smoke that and it'll really get you out there!

[Napoleon:]

I still don't feel as good as I felt this mornin' . . . yeah yeah . . .

[FZ:] You'll grow out of it . . .

[Jeff:]

DUMMY UP!

[Napoleon:]

I heard it again, somebody said . . .

[Jeff:] You see this?

[Napoleon:]

What d'you mean? College!

[FZ:] College!

[Jeff:]

That's college-rhythm

[Napoleon:]

You mean if I smoke that

It's the same as if . . .

As if I was at college?

Roll it over up!

Roll it over up!

Roll it over up!

Gimme a . . .

[FZ:] No no, the college-degree is stuffed with absolutely nothing at all, you get . . . you get nothing with your college-degree . . .

[Napoleon:]

Oh . . .

But that's what I want

[FZ:] . . . I forgot, I'm sorry

[Napoleon:]

Well,

You get nothin',

But that's what I want

[FZ:] A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want . . . The results of a higher education!