Frank Zappa - Strictly Genteel (The Finale) lyrics

This, as you might have guessed
Is the end of the movie the entire cast is
Assembled here at the Centerville
Recreational Facility to
Bid farewell to you
And to express thanks for your attendance at
This theater this might seem old
Fashioned to some of you
But I'd like to join in on this
Song it's the kind of a sentimental song that
You get at the end of a movie
It's the kind of a song
That people might sing
To let you in the audience know that
We really like you and care
About you, yeah understand how hard it
Is to laugh these days
With all the terrible problems in the world!

Lord, have mercy on the people in England
For the terrible food these people must eat


(Baaahhh excuse me a minute)
And may the Lord have mercy on
The fate of this movie
And God bless the mind of
The man in the street

Help all the rednecks and
The flatfoot policemen
Through the terrible functions they
All must perform
God help the winos, the junkies
And the weirdos
And every poor soul who's adrift in the storm
Help everybody, so they all get some action
Some love on the weekend
Some real satisfaction

A room and a meal and a garbage disposal
A lawn and a hose'll be strictly genteel

Reach out your hand to the
Girl in the dog book
The girl in the pig book
And the one with the horse
Make sure they keep all
Those businessmen happy
And the purple-lipped censors and
The Germans of course

Help everybody, so they all get some action
Some love on the weekend
Some real satisfaction

A Swedish apparatus
With a hood and a bludgeon
With a microwave oven
"Honey, how do it feel?"

Lord, have mercy on the hippies and faggots
And the dykes and the weird
Little children they grow

Help the black man help the poor man
Help the milk man help the door man
Help the lonely
Neglected old farts that I know

It's been swell havin' you with us tonight
Folks!

But, don't leave the theater yet, cause
There's still more to come, but before we go
On, I want to introduce to you my
Friend and musical associate, Howard Kaylan
Who's going to give us all
A final closing benediction

They're gonna clear out the studio
They're gonna tear down all the
They're gonna whip down all the
They're gonna sweep out all the
They're gonna pay off all the (Oh, yeah)

And then and then
And then and then

Hey hey hey everybody in the
Orchestra and the chorus
Talkin' 'bout every one of our
Lovely and talented dancers
Talkin' 'bout the light bulb men camera men
The make-up men (The fake-up men)
Yeah, the rake-up men
(Especially Herbie Cohen, yeah)
They're all gonna rise up
They're gonna jump up i said jump up
Talkin' 'bout jump right up and off the floor
Jump right up and hit the door
They're all gonna rise up and jump off!
They're gonna ride on home
They're gonna ride on home
They're gonna ride on home
They're gonna ride on home and once again
Take themselves seriously, yeeeah!
Two, three, four, seriously
They're all gonna go home (ye hey)
Through the driving sleet and rain
They're all gonna go home
Through the fog, through the dust
Through the tropical fever and
The blistering frost
They're all gonna go home
And get out of it as they can be, baby
And the same goes for me
(The same goes for me) oh, yeah!
Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!
Oh, yeah! And each and every member
Of this rock oriented
Comedy group in his own special way
Is gonna get out of it as he can be
We all gonna get wasted
We all gonna get twisted
We all gonna get wasted
We all gonna get twisted
And I am definitely gonna get rEAMED
Cause I'm such a lonely i'm such a lonely
A lonely, lonely, talkin' 'bout a lonely guy!
Oh, and I know tonight, I am definitely
I am positively i just have to get
Bent, reamed and wasted

A disaster area the size of Atlantic City
New Jersey!

He's making me do this
Ladies and gentlemen i wouldn't
Do it if it weren't for him you noticed, all
Through this material
I've been glancing over toward my left?
Well, I'll tell you the reason for that
Ladies and gentlemen hE is
Over there hE is over on the
Left hE is the guy
That is making me do all this shit right over
There now all through this movie
Every time we've been on
Stage, I've had to look
Over in that direction, right? You saw it
You know well that's cause HE's over
There i've got to watch
Him for signs he jumps up
And down like a jackass
I can't even believe the guy
Sometimes but we gotta watch
Him "After all, " we said
"it's Frank's movie" Now
We're THE MOTHERS, but it's still
Frank's movie let's say it
He got to paid for it, he rented the studio
Had all these cheesy sets built it's
So moche! I can't even
Stand it he's telling everybody, right
Now, right over there, to