The Mud Shark Lyrics - Fillmore East, June 1971 - Frank Zappa

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[includes a quote from Little House I Used To Live In] 

FZ: That's right, you heard right, the Secret Word for tonight is Mud Shark! 

And of course with the Mud Shark Secret Word is the Mud Shark 

Arpeggio . . . a marvellous little arpeggio, and now the mating call of the 

adult male Mud Shark . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: THE MUD SHARK DANCING LESSON! 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

Mark: Wait a minute . . . we're gonna do a little dancing . . . a little dancing 

thing called the Mud Shark . . . Now, this dance started up in Seattle 

Howard: Yes . . . 

Mark: The story . . . 

FZ: Lemme tell you the story 'bout the Mud Shark . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

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FZ: Bring the band on down behind me, boys . . . 

Howard: Say! Good God! Ain't it funky! Say! 

FZ: The origins of the Mud Shark are as follows . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: There's a motel in Seattle, Washington, called the Edgewater Inn . . . 

The Edgewater Inn is built out on a pier . . . so that means that when you 

look out your window you don't see any dirt, it's . . . got a bay or something 

out in your backyard . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: And to make it even more interesting, in the lobby of the aforementioned 

motel there's a bait and tackle shop where the residents can go down and, 

whenever they want to, rent a fishing pole and some preserved minnows 

and schlep back up to their rooms, open the window, stick their little pole 

outside and within a few minutes actually catch a fish of some sort that they 

can bring into their motel room and do whatever they want with it, you 

know what I mean? 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

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FZ: Now in this bay there's quite a variety of . . . fish! 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: Not only do they have mud sharks up there, they got little octopusses 

that you can catch 

Fish! 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: And all of these denizens of the deep can come in real handy . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: Let's say you were a travelling Rock and Roll band called The Vanilla 

Fudge . . . let's say one night you checked into the Edgewater Inn with an 

8mm movie camera . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: Enough money to rent a pole, and just to make it more interesting . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: A succulent young lady! 

Howard: Nooo! 

FZ: With a taste for the bizarre . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: My mind drifts back . . . to a meeting, a chance meeting in the Chicago 

O'Hare Airport . . . 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: Where the members of The Vanilla Fudge told Don Preston about a home 

movie they made at the Edgewater Inn . . . with a mud shark! 

Mud Sh-sh-shark 

FZ: And I'm gonna tell you, this dance, the Mud Shark, is sweeping the ocean! 

Hey! Mud Sh-sh-shark 

Mark: Ah, we're goin'! Go 'head! Ah, we're goin'! Now we're gonna go out, 

somehow! Come one! 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

(Now show 'em what they do with the Mud Shark!) 

Out 

You go out 

(Now show 'em what they do with the Mud Shark!) 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Hey! 

Out 

You go out 

(Catch the Mud Shark) 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby 

Out 

You go out 

So far out 

You do the Mud Shark, baby