FRANK ZAPPA-"A Little Green Rosetta" LYRICS

[Act III]

[after the song ends]

This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER... As you can see, MUSIC can get you

pretty fucked up...Take a tip from Joe, do like he did, hock your imaginary guitar

and get a good job...Joe did, and he's a happy guy now, on the day shift at

the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of

a fully-charged icing anointment utensil. And every time a nice little muffin comes

by on the belt, he poots forth... And if this doesn't convince you that MUSIC

causes BIG TROUBLE...then maybe I should turn off my plastic' megaphone and

sing the last song on the album in my regular voice...

[SCENE EIGHTEEN]

[A LITTLE GREEN ROSETTA]

[CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER:]

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

You'll make a muffin betta

With a green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A tiny green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

You'll make a muffin betta

Betta

It's really getting betta

It's betta, it's betta

With a green rosetta

Green rositti

A little green rositti

It's really, really meaty

A little green rositti

Betta, betta,

(Hey, really out there...really good)

It's really getting betta

It's betta, it's betta

With a green rosetta

Setta, setta

(Good God, give the drummer some)

Green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

(Setta, setta, setta, etc....)

(Make a muffin, make a muffin, make a muffin,

Make a muffin betta, make a muffin betta, [etc....])

With a green rosetta

A little green rosetta

[Etc....]

Good God! You're really jammin ! Now the Reggae version, hey, for the People in

the Third World... we haven't forgotten anybody on this song.. .for all of you French

people...who think that you re outta sight... And for the people in Spain...who think

the French people are where its at... And for the people in Mongolia who always

wanted to go to Spain for a vacation... And for those of you in Taiwan who got chumped,

this chorus is for you: (Rang Tang Ding Dong, I am the Japanese Sandman...

Take eight...)

Green rosetta

Green rosetta

A little green rosetta

(Against the Reggae beat, though... No, it's still Reggae, but it s all backwards)

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

You'll make a muffin betta [Etc., etc., etc...]

Now you see, some places in the Third World it might be difficult to dance to this because

the kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.. .And a lot of times they run out of,

they run out of spunk right in the middle of the chorus... Causing the song to sound like this...

A little green rosetta

However we continue in spite of the fact that the fuel may be low on your record player.

We suggest that in places like the Fourth World where things are really tough that you

keep the record player going by rubbing two sticks together. And if all else fails, throw

the record away... build your own green rosetta...try this recipe: Well start with a lump of

grass... the grass bone connected to the ankle bone...the knee bone connected to the

wishbone...and then everybody moves to New York and goes to a party with Warren.

Hey! And we've flown in, at great expense, (triple scale, no less, ladies and gentlemen),

Steve Gad's clone to play the out-chorus on this song...lies really outa-site, in spite of

thefact that the click track is totally irrelevant to what he's doing now. I in listening to

the click, yes I'm suffering with the click track right now...this guy is totally out of sync with it,

but what the fuck. Ed Mann will call him up later, show him the sign. Okay Vinnie, where

is five?

They're pretty good musicians

They re pretty good musicians

They're pretty good musicians

They're pretty good musicians

But it don't make no difference

If they're good musicians

Because anybody who would buy this record

Doesn't give a fuck if there's good musicians

On it

Because this is a stupid song

AND THAT'S THE WAY I LIKE IT

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

You make a muffin betta

With a little green rosetta

A little green rosetta

Rosetta, rosetta, rosetta

[etc., etc., etc....]

AL MALKIN.

Zetta..