Boogie! What A Mess

[schwitterz]

David Morris wrote:

> It'd be nice to know the root of "boogie."  Was it first derogatory?  Could
> it have been related to "bogeyman?"

STINK-FOOT  by F. Zappa

In the dark
Where all the fevers grow
Under the water
Where the shark bubbles blow
In the morning
By your radio
Do the walls close in to suffocate ya
You ain't got no friends
And all the others they hate ya
Does the life you've been living gotta go?
Well, let me straighten you out
About a place I know
(Get your shoes and socks on people
It's right around the corner!)

Out through the night
And the whispering breezes
To the place where they keep
The Imaginary Diseases
Out through the night
And the whispering breezes
To the place where they keep
The Imaginary Diseases

This has to be the disease for you
Now scientists call this disease
Bromidrosis
But us regular folks
Who might wear tennis shoes
Or an occasional python boot
Know this exquisite little inconvenience
By the name of
STINK FOOT

You know
My python boot is too tight
I couldn't get it off last night
A week went by
And now it's July
I finally got it off
And my girlfriend cry
You got STINK FOOT!
STINK FOOT, darling
Your STINK FOOT puts a hurt on my nose
STINK FOOT! STINK FOOT! I ain't lying
Can you rinse it off, do you suppose?
Here Fido! Fido!
C'mere little puppy... bring the slippers
"Arf, arf, arf!"
Heh heh heh...
Sick!

Well then Fido got up off the floor
And he rolled over
And he looked me straight in the eye
And you know what he said?
Once upon a time
Somebody say to me
(This is a dog talking now)
What is your
Conceptual
Continuity?
Well I told him right then
(Fido said)
It should be easy to see
The crux of the biscuit
Is the Apostrophe
Well, you know
The man who was talking to the dog
Looked at the dog and he said
(Sort of staring in desbelief)
You can't say that!
He said:
IT DOESN'T
And YOU CAN'T
I WON'T
And IT DON'T
IT HASN'T
IT ISN'T
IT EVEN AIN'T
And IT SHOULDN'T
IT COULDN'T
He told me
NO NO NO
I told him
YES YES YES
I said:
"I do it all the time
Ain't this boogie a mess!"
THE POODLE BITES
THE POODLE CHEWS IT
THE POODLE BITES
THE POODLE CHEWS IT