Lyrics The London Cab Tape - Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention

The London Cab Tape

[London
Probably November 29, 1970]
Howard: This fucking guy is flipped out, man!
I’ll be locked up!
?: Who, me.
.. ?
Yeah, you too!
?: It was anti-semitic of me to bring it up
?: Why, you don’t like Jews, man?
?: Let me make it perfectly clear, I don’t mind that you are Jew, stay out.
..
Take your Bar Mitzvah man, and shove it
?: I never had a Bar Mitzvah
?: You ever had a Yamulka, man?
?: No, I wore one once, though.
.
?: I knew it
?: What’s wrong?
You don’t like 'em, man?
That was my cowboy hat.
.
?: Just keep it out of my way, man, I don’t wanna see that Yamulka on stage
ever.
.
?: Uh.
.. well, I don’t know, man, that’d be sorta neat, not in this group of
course, but tomorrow
?: Alright, alright.
.
?: Howard Kaylan World!
?: The Yamulka
FZ: Ha ha ha!
: Dear Frank, thanks for paying a hundred twenty three dollars for my meal in
Amsterdam, which I hated!
?: I mean it, man
?: I really enjoy playing in your little own ensemble
?: For a day or so
?: Thanks for bringing a little slice of sunshine into my life
?: Thanks for showing me how sh.
.. shitty the music business could really be,
I thought I knew
?: Thanks for make worst bass player in the world
?: After six months with the Mothers I figured I’ve lost everything I’ve ever
had