Frank Zappa - Drowning Witch (Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch)
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Steve Vai (guitar)
Ray White (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Tommy Mars (keyboards)
Bobby Martin (keyboards, saxophone, vocals)
Ed Mann (percussion)
Chad Wackerman (drums)
Roy Estrada (vocals)
Ike Willis (vocals)
Bob Harris (vocals)
Scott Thunes (bass)
There's a ship arriving too late
To save a drowning witch
She was swimmin' along
Tryin' to keep a date
With a Merchant Marine
Who told her he was really rich
But it doesn't matter no more...
She's on the ocean floor
'N the water's all green down there
'N it's not very clean down there
'N water snakes
'N rusty wrecks
Is all that she can see
As the light goes dim
And she's tryin' to swim
Will she make it?
(Boy, we sure hope so...)
Not even a witch oughta be caught
On the bottom of America's spew-infested
Waterways, hey-hey...
She could get radiation all over her
She could mutate insanely...
She could mutate insanely... (that's right)
You know she could go on the freeway and grow up
to be 15 feet tall and scary-lookin'
And then...
Cars could crash all over the place
As a result of people with Hawaiian shirts on...
Lookin' up to see her face
Sardines in her eyebrows...
Lobsters up 'n down her forehead
All of them HORRIBLY LARGE FROM RADIATION...
And smelling very bad
And DANGEROUS!
Maybe a submarine could save her,
And bring her home to the Navy...
For some kind of ritual sacrifice...
Frank Zappa - Drowning Witch solo - 1982 (04:15)
5th July, 1982 - Stadio Marassi, Genova, Italy. Band: FZ, Steve Vai, Ray White, Scott Thunes, Chad
Wackerman, Ed Mann, Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin. Sound quality ain't perfect, but like the man said,
who gives a fuck?
I LOVE the You Can't Vol. 3 solo(s) as well, but there are some close seconds here on the YTube!
Author: bnork - 10 months, 4 weeks ago
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Big big up
Author: PoundForABrown - 5 months, 1 week ago
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for me it would be ''Sad Jane 2 movement''
Author: jasmincar - 11 months, 3 weeks ago
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OUTRAGEOUSLY AWESOME AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!! Frank at his brilliant best - thxs as ever!
Author: strav12 - 1 month ago
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My favorite Frank Zappa song. Great solo. Thank you for posting.
Author: barrett39 - 8 months, 3 weeks ago
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allthough i think zappa was an oversynical man, i believe this is his all time best song!
Author: Bram1978 - 4 months ago
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My favourite version of this guitar solo is undoubtably the one from YCDTOSA Vol. 3 but it's nice to hear another live version since there are so few out there... Too bad there's no video
Author: Shaktidej - 1 year, 1 month ago
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main theme is like an extended version of the
"ocaam's razor" theme