Frank Zappa — Call Any Vegetable Edited- Hybrid Concert

[Intro] This is a song about vegetables, they keep ya regular They're real good for you This is a song about vegetables, they keep you regular, they're real good for ya Call any vegetable Call it by name You gotta call one today When you get off the train Call any vegetable And the chances are good Yeah-eh-hey, the vegetable will respond to you La-la-ah la-la, the vegetable will respond to you La-la-ah la-la . . Ruta-bay-ayga, Ruta-bay-ayga Ruta-bay-ayga, Ruta-bay-ayga Ruta-bayyyyy . . No one will know If you don't want to let 'em know No one will know 'Less it's you that might tell 'em so Call and they'll come to you Smiling and covered with dew Vegetables dream Vegetables dream Vegetables dream Of responding to you Standing there shiny and proud by your side Holding your joint while the neighbors decide Why is a vegetable something to hide? To hide! To hide! To hide! Shoop shoop, shoop shoop Shoop shoop, shoop shoop . . FZ: You know, a lot of people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. They think, "What can I say? What can a person like myself say unto a vegetable?" Howard: And right they are FZ: But the answer is simple, my friends Howard: What is it? FZ: Just call, and tell 'em how you feel . . About MUFFINS! (YEAHH!) PUMPKINS! (YEAHH!) WAX PAPER! (YEAHH!) CALEDONIAS, MAHOGANIES and ELBOWS and . . GREEN THINGS IN GENERAL . . And soon: A NEW RAPPORT! You and all your new little green & yellow buddies grooving together! Maintaining your coolness together! Worshipping together in the church of your choice, only in America . . O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of . . God bless America Land of the . . Call any vegetable Call it by name Call one today When you get off the train Call any vegetable And the chances are good That the vegetable will RESPOND to you What a pumpkin Mark: Thank you! FZ: Thank you. I will make a couple of minor adjustments here before we go into the next song Mark: You're fired. You're fired . . . Yes, there he is, back there, "Monster Dick," Aynsley Dunbar!