This is one I wanted to put up for the longest time, but nowhere on the Net has it been transcribed before now. I had a chance to do so yesterday, though, and took it -- and despite the fact that the discussion over the last Song of the Day hasn't ended yet, I'm throwing this one up now.
I'll leave you all to try and figure out its implications. If indeed there are any.
-- Bob
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(Spoken)
The other night, I was walkin' down the street
I was gettin' kinda hungry
I decided to get me somethin' to eat
Now, I passed up all the chain franchise joints on Hamburger Row
And stopped at a little greasy spoon place I always eat at
Called "Eat" (Eat!)
Sit'n'gulp
Get you one of those greasy hamburgers all peppered up
Lay you up in the hospital for ten days.
So I order me up a couple of them greasebombs
Waitress brought'em over
Lifted up the bun, checked'em out
Damn! No ketchup
So I nudged the guy sitting next to me at the counter
I said, "Hey, partner, how about passing the ketchup over?"
Suddenly, this little-bitty green hand holding a ketchup bottle came into view
And I freaked!
Cause the guy sitting next to me
Was a Martian!
Now in twenty-eight years of eating hamburgers
I ain't never run into no Martian
Not at two-thirty in the morning
And certainly not at a fine scarfin' establishment like Eat (Eat!)
Well, he was sittin' over there with a bunch of colored sticks on his plate
And I looked over at him and I said,
"What you eatin' there, boy? Crayons?"
And he said
"Why, no, they're Martian cigarettes. Here, try one."
Well, 'bout a half hour later, he looked over at me and smiled
Them ol' Martians ain't got but two teeth in their head
And he said, "How do you feel?"
And I said
(Sung)
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll
I feel
So good
Yeah I do
Gonna boogie
Gonna boogie
Yow! 'Til the break of day
(music)
Yeah
(Spoken)
Meanwhile
Back at Eat
I was stiiiiiiillll
Thinkin'
I said
"How come out of all the places you could've landed you ended up here?"
He said
"Well accordin' to my lil ol' space map
This town here
Is supposed to be
The Boogie Capital of the USA!"
(music)
So I asked'im, I said
"Now where else you been, boy?"
And he told me.
(Sung)
He said I rocked'em over
And I rocked'em down
I rocked'em in the country
I rocked'em in town
Rocked'em from Memphis
On up to Maine
Rocked up a lady and she asked my name
Told her my name was on the tail of my shirt
Said rock it, see a Martian don't have to work
Yeah I feel so good
Yeah
Yeah
Gonna boogie
Yow! 'Til the break of day
Martian boogie!
-- Brownsville Station, Martian Boogie
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
I'll leave you all to try and figure out its implications. If indeed there are any.
-- Bob
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(Spoken)
The other night, I was walkin' down the street
I was gettin' kinda hungry
I decided to get me somethin' to eat
Now, I passed up all the chain franchise joints on Hamburger Row
And stopped at a little greasy spoon place I always eat at
Called "Eat" (Eat!)
Sit'n'gulp
Get you one of those greasy hamburgers all peppered up
Lay you up in the hospital for ten days.
So I order me up a couple of them greasebombs
Waitress brought'em over
Lifted up the bun, checked'em out
Damn! No ketchup
So I nudged the guy sitting next to me at the counter
I said, "Hey, partner, how about passing the ketchup over?"
Suddenly, this little-bitty green hand holding a ketchup bottle came into view
And I freaked!
Cause the guy sitting next to me
Was a Martian!
Now in twenty-eight years of eating hamburgers
I ain't never run into no Martian
Not at two-thirty in the morning
And certainly not at a fine scarfin' establishment like Eat (Eat!)
Well, he was sittin' over there with a bunch of colored sticks on his plate
And I looked over at him and I said,
"What you eatin' there, boy? Crayons?"
And he said
"Why, no, they're Martian cigarettes. Here, try one."
Well, 'bout a half hour later, he looked over at me and smiled
Them ol' Martians ain't got but two teeth in their head
And he said, "How do you feel?"
And I said
(Sung)
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll
I feel
So good
Yeah I do
Gonna boogie
Gonna boogie
Yow! 'Til the break of day
(music)
Yeah
(Spoken)
Meanwhile
Back at Eat
I was stiiiiiiillll
Thinkin'
I said
"How come out of all the places you could've landed you ended up here?"
He said
"Well accordin' to my lil ol' space map
This town here
Is supposed to be
The Boogie Capital of the USA!"
(music)
So I asked'im, I said
"Now where else you been, boy?"
And he told me.
(Sung)
He said I rocked'em over
And I rocked'em down
I rocked'em in the country
I rocked'em in town
Rocked'em from Memphis
On up to Maine
Rocked up a lady and she asked my name
Told her my name was on the tail of my shirt
Said rock it, see a Martian don't have to work
Yeah I feel so good
Yeah
Yeah
Gonna boogie
Yow! 'Til the break of day
Martian boogie!
-- Brownsville Station, Martian Boogie
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.