Frank Zappa
Call Any Vegetable [Road Tapes, Venue #3]
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Yeah-eh-hey, the vegetable will respond to you
La-la-ah la-la, the vegetable will respond to you
La-la-ah la-la . . . Look out!
Call any vegetable
Pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable
Lonely at home
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Yeah-eh-hey, the vegetable will respond to you
La-la-ah la-la, the vegetable will respond to you
La-la-ah la-la . .
A rutabaga, ladies and gentlemen!
Ruta-bay-ayga, Ruta-bay-ayga
Ruta-bay-ayga, Ruta-bay-ayga
Ruta-bayyyyy . .
Ah, I can't stand it!
No one will know
If you don't want to let 'em know
No one will know
'Less it's you that might tell 'em so
Call and they'll come to you
Smiling and covered with dew
Vegetables dream
Vegetables dream
Vegetables dream
Of responding to you
Standing there shiny and proud by your side
Holding your joint while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide?
To hide!
To hide!
To hide!
Shoop shoop, shoop shoop
Shoop shoop, shoop shoop . .
You know, a lot of people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. They think, "What can I say? What can a person like myself say to a vegetable?" And the answer is simple, my friends. Just call, and tell 'em how you feel . .
About MUFFINS!
(YEAHH!)
PUMPKINS!
(YEAHH!)
WAX PAPER!
(YEAHH!)
CALEDONIAS, MAHOGANIES, ELBOWS and . .
(YEAH!)
GREEN THINGS IN GENERAL . .
And soon: A NEW RAPPORT! You and all your new little green & yellow buddies grooving together! Maintaining your coolness together! Worshipping together in the church of your choice, only in America . .
God bless America
Land that I . .
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
(Good God!)
You gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Oh, that the vegetable will RESPOND to you
What a pumpkin