Orange Claw Hammer (KWST FM Broadcast 1975 with Frank Zappa) (Live)

A thick cloud caught a piper cub's tail

The match struck blue on a railroad rail

The old puff horse was just pullin' through

And a man wore a peg leg forever

Among the bum where the hobos run

The air breaks with filthy chatter

Oh I don't care there's no place there

I don't think it matters

My skin's blazin' through

And my clothes in tatters

And the railroad looked like a why

Up the hill of ladders

One shoe fell on the gravel

One stick poked down

Gray of age fell down on a pair of ears

An eagle shined through my whole watch pocket

A gingham girl baby girl passed me by in tears

A jackrabbit raised his folded ears

A beautiful sagebrush jackrabbit

And an oriole sang like an orange his breast full o' worms

And his tail clawed the evenin' like a hammer

His wings took to air like a bomber

And my rain can caught me a cup o' water

When I got into town odd jobs ma'am

Ah your horse I'll fodder

I'm the roundhouse man I once was your father

A little up the road a wooden candy stripe barber pole

And above it read a sign Painless Parker

Licorice twisted around under a fly

And a youngster cocked her eye

God before me if I'm not crazy is my daughter

Come little one with your little ole dimpled fingers

Gimme one and I'll buy you a cherry phosphate

Take you down to the foamin' brine and water

And show you the wooden tits on the Goddess

With the pole out full sail that tempted away your peg leg father

I was shanghaied

By a high hat beaver mustache man

And his pirate friend

I woke up in vomit 'n beer in a banana bin

And a soft lass with brown skin

Bore me seven babies with snappin' black eyes

And beautiful ebony skin

And here it is I'm with you my daughter thirty years

Away can make a seaman's eyes a roundhouse man's eyes

Flow out water salt water