Frank Zappa — Call Any Vegetable II Road Tapes Venue 3

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 . . Good God! Call any vegetable Pick up your phone Think of a vegetable Lonely at home 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 . . A rutabaga! 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 to a vegetable?" : What? FZ: [...] Larry Mondello, Bert Parks, Dwight Frye . . Howard: Eddie White FZ: George Zucco, Shoo shoo . . Howard: Thom McAn FZ: Paul McCartney! Jeff: Hubert Humphrey : Edgar Winter! FZ: But the answer is simple, my friends. Just call, and tell 'em how you feel . . About MUFFINS! (YEAHH!) PUMPKINS! (YEAHH!) WAX PAPER! (YEAHH!) CALEDONIAS, MAHOGANIES, and ELBOWS and . . (YEAH!) GREEN THINGS IN GENERAL . . And soon: A NEW RAPPORT! You and your new little green & yellow buddies grooving together! Maintaining your coolness together! Worshipping together in the church of your choice . . God bless America Land that I . . (America! America! God shed His grace on . . . ) 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 Oh, that the vegetable will RESPOND to you What a pumpkin