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Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top Lyrics by Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart

The Old Masters Box Three

1975

[Refrain]
Sam with the showing scalp flat top
Particular about the point it made
[Verse]
(Ah, God..)
Why, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper
This black juice came out on a hard shelled chin
And they called that 'tobacco juice'
I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx
My entire room absorbed every echo
The music was... thud like
The music was... thud like
I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug
Opaque melodies that would bug most people
Music from the other side of the fence
A black swan figurine lay on all color lily pads
On a little conglomeration table of pressed black felt
With same color shadows, in seamed knobbed knees, and what-nots
The long hallway rolled out into oddball odd
Beside the fly-pecked black doorway
That looked closed on the tar-lattice street
Up a wrought iron fire escape
Rolled out a tiny wooden platform with dark, hard, dark rubber wheels
Roll, skreek! Roll, skreek! Roll, skreek!
[Refrain]
Sam with the showing scalp flat top
Particular about the point it made
[Outro]
SAM WAS A BASKET CASE!
A hardened dark ivory clip held saleable everyday pencils
I wish I had a pair 'o bongos!
Bongo Fury!
Bongo Fury!
Oh, Bongo Fury! (Boogie!)
Bongo Fury!
Bongo Fury
Bongo Fury
Credits
Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

The Mothers of Invention

The Mothers of Invention

Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart

About “Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top” by Frank Zappa

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"Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top" appears on "The Old Masters Box Three" in 1975.

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