Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Divan: Once Upon A Time, artist - Frank Zappa. Album song Carnegie Hall, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 20.11.2011
Record label: Zappa Family Trust
Song language: English
Divan: Once Upon A Time |
Once upon a time |
Way back a long time ago, |
When the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate than |
Mark bolman |
Oh, thank you frank |
And don’t misspell it, |
That’s not marc bolan |
That’s mark volman |
Hiya friends |
I wanna welcome each and everyone of you |
I wanna say to you tonight |
I feel great |
I mean, I feel great |
Everywhere I go people are always comin' up to me |
And they say mark, mark, mark |
Mark are you kiddin' |
Lemme tell you this friends: |
I am not kiddin' |
I mean, I am portly and I am maroon |
Well, how many people here tonight can guess what I am? |
Aaaah |
I can’t guess what you are |
Well, then I’ll give you some clues |
And the first clue is |
I am portly |
Does that help? |
Not much |
No, I don’t know who you are |
Okay, I got one |
Clue number two: |
I am double knit |
Does that help? |
No, not much |
Whaddya mean? |
Well, then I’ve to give you one more clue |
I know this is gonna give it away |
And I hate like damn to tell you this |
But clue number three: |
Ich bin maroon! |
Ahhhhhhhh you’re a sofa! |
Once upon a time |
Way back a long time ago, |
When the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate than |
Mark volman … |
Thank you, frank |
… trying to convince each and every member |
Of this extremely hip audience here tonight, |
That he was nothing more, nothing less |
Than a fat maroon sofa, |
Suspended in the midst of a great emptiness |
A light shined down from heaven (* twinkling sounds *) |
And there he was ladies and gentleman, the good lord |
And he took, he took a look at the sofa, |
And he said to himself |
«quite an attractive sofa» |
«this sofa could be commercial» |
With a few more margaritas and the right company |
However, I digress |
«what this sofa needs"said the big 'g' |
«is a bit of flooring underneath of it» |
And so in order to make this construction project possible, |
He summoned the assistance of the celestial corp of engineers, |
And, by means of a cute little song in the german language |
(which is the way he talks whenever it’s heavy business) |
The good lord went something like this: |
(take it away jim pons!) |
Gib zu mir etwas fussbodenbelag |
Unter diesen fetten fliessenden sofa |
Everybody! |
Gib zu mir etwas fussbodenbelag |
Unter diesen fetten fliessenden sofa |
And of course ladies and gentlemen that means: |
«give unto me a bit of flooring under this fat floating sofa» |
And sure enough boards of oak appeared throughout the emptiness |
As far as vision permits, |
Stretching all the way from belfast to bogner regis |
And the lord put aside his huge cigar |
And proceeded to deliver unto the charming maroonish sofa |
The bulk of his message |
With the assistance of a small electric clarinet |
And it went something like this… |
Take it away jim pons! |
Gib zu mir etwas fussbodenbelag |
Unter diesen fetten fliessenden sofa |
Everybody! |
Gib zu mir etwas fussbodenbelag |
Unter diesen fetten fliessenden sofa |
And of course ladies and gentlemen, that means: |
Give unto me a bit of flooring under this fat floating sofa |
And sure enough boards of oak appeared throughout the |
emptiness as far as vision permits, |
stretching all the way from belfast to bagner regious |
and the lord put aside his huge cigar and proceeded |
to deliver unto the charming maroonish sofa the bulk |
of his message with the assistance of a small electric |
clarinet and he went something like… this: |