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Let's Make The Water Turn Black

from The Miseducation of Willie The Hill by John Tabacco

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Words and Music © 1968 by Frank Zappa
Published by KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA I OBO MUNCHKIN MUSIC CO
Additional lyrics by John Tabacco (2001)

This was recorded right after 9/11 happened. Everyone was so freaked out about planes crashing, anthrax in envelopes and people who looked Middle Eastern. It was the beginning of a new world and not necessarily a good one.

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LET'S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK

Now believe me when I tell you that my song is really true
I want everyone to listen and believe
It's about some little people from a long time ago
And all the things the neighbors didn't know

Early in the morning
Daddy Dinky went to work
Selling lamps & chairs to San Ber'dino squares
And I still remember Mama with her apron & her pad
Feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe!

Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
KENNY'S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY!

Ronnie saves his numies on a window in his room
(A marvel to be seen: dysentery green)
While Kenny & his buddies had a game out in the back:
LET'S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK

We see them after school in a world of their own
(To some it might seem creepy what they do...)
The neighbors on the right sat & watched them every night
(I bet you'd do the same if they was you)

Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
And all the while on a shelf in the shed:
KENNY'S LITTLE CREATURES ON DISPLAY!

Now Ronnie's in Afghanistan and Kenny's smoking crack
Oh! How they yearn to be on Howard Stearn
But there's anthrax in the mail room of the media machine
Wait till the building is clean
Wait till the building is clean
WAIT TILL THE BUILDING IS CLEAN!

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from The Miseducation of Willie The Hill, released October 29, 2014
JT : Vocals, Acoustic, Bass
Recorded at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY

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John Tabacco Stony Brook, New York

John Tabacco is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and visual artist.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined.

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