Lyrics The Mud Shark - Frank Zappa, The Mothers

The Mud Shark

Mud sh-sh-shark
The mud shark dancing lesson!
Mud sh-sh-shark
Were gonna do a little dancing,
A little dancing thing called the mud shark
Now, this dance started up in seattle
Lemme tell you bout the mud shark…
The origins of the mud shark are as follows: theres a motel in seattle,
washington called the edgewater inn.
the edgewater inns built on a pier.
so that means that when you look out your wind
U dont see any dirt -- its got a bay or something out in your backyard,
and to make it even more interesting, in the lobby of the aforementioned motel
theres a bait and tackle shop where th Idents can go down whenever they want to, and 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
Es 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?
now in this bay
theres quite a variety of ah… fish!
Nly do they have mud sharks up there, they got little octopusses that you can
catch.
and all these denizens of the deep can come in real handy…
lets say you were a travelling rock and roll ba Lled the vanilla fudge.
lets
Say one night you checked into the edgewater inn motel with a 8 mm movie camera,
enough money to rent a pole, and just to make it more interesting -- a succulent young lady (mnaaaah!) with a tas
R the bizarre… my mind drifts back to a meeting, a chance meeting in the
chicago ohare airport where the members of the vanilla fudge told don preston
about a home movie they made at the edge
Inn with a mud shark.
Im gonna tell you, this dance, the mud shark,
is sweeping the ocean…
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the mud shark.
baby … etc