In 1975 guitarist and composer Frank Zappa asked composer and multi-instrum… Read Full Bio ↴In 1975 guitarist and composer Frank Zappa asked composer and multi-instrumentalist Captain Beefheart to join him and his band on their 1975 tour. The tour resulted in the release of one album, Bongo Fury, which featured recordings from two nights in May 1975 at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas, as well as recordings from a Frank Zappa studio sessions in January 1974. This would be Zappa and Beefheart’s only true full-fledged release, though Zappa is credited for the production of Beefheart’s masterpiece 1969 album Trout Mask Replica and Beefheart has contributed vocals and various instrumentation to different Zappa releases.
Poofter's Froth Wyoming
Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart Lyrics
While we're at it, we have a sort of a cowboy song we'd like to do for ya.
This is a song that deals with the rapidly approaching 200th birthday of the
united states of america, ladies and gentlemen.
This is a song that warns you in advance, that next year, everybody
is gonna try and sell you things that maybe you shouldn't ought to buy,
and not only that, they've been planning it for years.
The name of this song is (pardon me), Poofters Froth, Wyoming, Plans Ahead.
Poofters Froth, Wyoming,
March Eleven Sixty-Seven
Take a letter, Miss Abetter
as our pigeons will be homin'.
To our jobbers in Dakota
And to Merwyn, Minnesota
This is merely just a note about
Performance to our quota
Well, we've all come out to show dem,
And the Elks have helped us
Load 'em
Little packets full of jackets
Little rackets, little rackets
Little Poofter-Cloth Appointments
Little Pofter's Froth Anointments
Little hoods, little goods
Little doo-dads from the woods
The entire stock is shipping
Oh our shod is hardly slipping
To the markets of the world
Our wrinkled pennants are unfurled!
T-shirt racks, rubber snacks,
Poster rolls with matching tacks
Yes, a special beer for sports
(and paper cups that hold two quarts)
Everything a nation needs
For making hoopla while it feeds
The trash compactors, small reactors,
Mowers, blowers, throwers & the glowers:
This is Buy-Cent-Any-All Salute(HYULK!)
Two hundred years have gone ka-poot!
Ah but we have been astute!
Signed: Anon. - Wyo. Galoot!
This is a song that deals with the rapidly approaching 200th birthday of the
united states of america, ladies and gentlemen.
This is a song that warns you in advance, that next year, everybody
is gonna try and sell you things that maybe you shouldn't ought to buy,
and not only that, they've been planning it for years.
The name of this song is (pardon me), Poofters Froth, Wyoming, Plans Ahead.
Poofters Froth, Wyoming,
March Eleven Sixty-Seven
as our pigeons will be homin'.
To our jobbers in Dakota
And to Merwyn, Minnesota
This is merely just a note about
Performance to our quota
Well, we've all come out to show dem,
And the Elks have helped us
Load 'em
Little packets full of jackets
Little rackets, little rackets
Little Poofter-Cloth Appointments
Little Pofter's Froth Anointments
Little hoods, little goods
Little doo-dads from the woods
The entire stock is shipping
Oh our shod is hardly slipping
To the markets of the world
Our wrinkled pennants are unfurled!
T-shirt racks, rubber snacks,
Poster rolls with matching tacks
Yes, a special beer for sports
(and paper cups that hold two quarts)
Everything a nation needs
For making hoopla while it feeds
The trash compactors, small reactors,
Mowers, blowers, throwers & the glowers:
This is Buy-Cent-Any-All Salute(HYULK!)
Two hundred years have gone ka-poot!
Ah but we have been astute!
Signed: Anon. - Wyo. Galoot!
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@rivverbonner3787
Pure excellence the whole album! My father played this every weekend on the way home to my grandmothers, fell in love with thos as long as the muffin man!
@jamespickell8564
This whole album "Bongo Fury" is the shizznit!
@Huija
FZ= Source of eternal enlightment, entertainment and happiness
@gazriley624
little do dads from the woods
@norbertojosetrenti2304
This music is unbelible
@TheCointreaux
Sweet Wonderful Frank!!
@BenDover-lu4pw
That's Captain Beefheart
@kaewonf8
Poster rolls with matchin' tacks!
@somersetcace1
I think this was a collaboration between Zappa and Beefheart that Beefheart wasn't thrilled with, but damn did they create a wonderful album! This song is great, especially listening to it in 1976 and looking around at the reality of it.
@wynstansmom829
"This is a Song that WArns you in ADvance! How prescient! Thanks, FFG and Shoot What You Love.