Frank Zappa - Strictly Genteel - Текст песни

Artist: Frank Zappa
Title: Strictly Genteel 
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Theodore Bikel: 
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 
(Errrr . . . excuse me) 
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 

Phyllis Bryn-Julson: 
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 

Theodore Bikel: 
It's been swell havin' you with us tonight, folks! 

Mark: 
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