Lyrics "Carved In The Rock" - Frank Zappa, The Mothers

"Carved In The Rock"

FZ:
Hello, folks!
This thing wiggles too much
Hey, that’s more like it, mm-mm-mmh, yes, okay?
Bruce Fowler on trombone
Napoleon Murphy Brock on tenor sax
And vocals
Ruth Underwood on percussion
All right!
FZ:
Okay
The gong always gets 'em
Ralph Humphrey on drums
Chester Thompson on drums
Tom Fowler on bass
George Duke on keyboards
Alright.
Now, let me get myself tuned up and then we’ll do a suave program for
you
, a shade more sax in the monitor.
Just turn it up, a little bit
Girl From The Audience:
Hi, Frank!
FZ:
Hi!
Alright.
Well, Ian’s busy.
He’s uh, he’s with his parents in uhm, uh.
.
Audience Member:
Yugoslavia
FZ:
Florida.
But he’ll be back in town soon, ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah
Now, we’re gonna open up with some— Hey!
Brian Krokus, ladies and gentlemen,
right back there!
He is our mixer, and of course there’s another mixer out in
the truck and you can’t see him but he’s awfully cute, his name is Kerry McNabb
and he can hear us talking about him, but.
.
Well, you’re missing the best part of what’s going out— on out in the truck
We’re gonna open our program with a song that deals with the subject of the
possibility of extra-terrestrial beings visiting this planet a long time ago
Now, some of you might have read a book called Chariots Of The Gods by Erich
Von Däniken, and there’s a little thing in there, it’s a picture of this area
in the Andes called the plains of Nazca, ladies and gentlemen.
And there’s
these carvings on the top of the rock that you don’t know what they’re supposed
to be for.
It doesn’t look like it would have been a road, because it doesn’t
go anywhere, and there’s a bunch of 'em, and some people think, well maybe it
was a landing field.
But the carvings are very, very old and they’re very,
very big, you know, indicating that the people who made them were highly, uh,
well, they were, heh heh.
.. They really had their ____ together for the
things that carved in the rock
And it’s possible that if they were landing fields, that the things that landed
on them were NOT OF THIS EARTH
And so we have a song, which features the lovely voice of Mr. George Duke,
and the name of this song is «Inca Roads.»
Take it away, George.
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