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Frank Zappa - Nanook Rubs It (Visualizer)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Electric Guitar
Bruce Fowler
Bruce Fowler
Trombone
George Duke
George Duke
Keyboards
Ian Underwood
Ian Underwood
Saxophone
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Background Vocals
Ralph Humphrey
Ralph Humphrey
Drums
Ruth Underwood
Ruth Underwood
Marimba
Sal Marquez
Sal Marquez
Trumpet
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Well, right about that time, people
A fur-trapper
Who was strictly from commercial
(Strictly commercial)
[Verse 2]
Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo
(Peek-a-boo, oou-ooh-ooh)
And he started in to whippin' on my favorite baby seal
With a lead-filled snow shoe
[Verse 3]
I said, "With a lead
(Lead)
Filled
(Lead-filled)
A lead-filled snow shoe"
(Snow shoe)
He said, "Peek-a-boo"
(Peek-a-boo)
With a lead
(Lead)
Filled
(Lead-filled)
With a lead-filled snow shoe"
(Snow shoe)
He said, "Peek-a-boo"
(Peek-a-boo)
[Verse 4]
He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal
He went, "Whap"
With a lead-filled snow shoe
And he hit him on the nose
And he hit him on fin and he
[Verse 5]
That got me just about as evil as an Eskimo boy can be
So, I bent down and I reached down and I scooped down
And I gathered up a generous mitten full of the deadly
(Yellow snow)
The deadly, yellow snow from right there where the huskies go
[Verse 6]
Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful
Of the deadly yellow snow crystals
And rub it all into his beady little eyes
With a vigorous circular motion
Hitherto unknown to the people in this area
But destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology
Here it goes now, the circular motion, rub it
[Verse 7]
(Here Fido)
(Here Fido)
[Verse 8]
And then, in a fit of anger, I
I pounced
And I pounced again
Great googly-moogly
I jumped up an down the chest of the
I injured the fur-trapper
[Verse 9]
Well, he was very upset
As you can understand
And rightly so, because
The deadly, yellow snow crystals
Had deprived him of his sight
[Verse 10]
And he stood up
And he looked around
And he said
"I can't see"
[Verse 11]
"I can't see"
"Oh, woe is me"
"I can't see"
[Verse 12]
No, no
I can't see
[Verse 13]
He took a dog-doo snow-cone
And stuffed it in my right eye
He took a dog-doo snow-cone
And stuffed it in my other eye
[Verse 14]
And the huskie wee-wee
I mean the doggie wee-wee has blinded me
And I can't see
Temporarily
[Verse 15]
Well, the fur trapper
Stood there
With his arms outstretched
Across the frozen, white wasteland
Trying to figure out what he's gonna do
About his deflicted eyes
[Verse 16]
And it was at that precise moment that he remembered
An ancient Eskimo legend
Wherein it is written
On whatever it is that they write it on up there
That if anything bad ever happens to your eyes
As a result of some sort of conflict
With anyone named Nanook
[Verse 17]
The only way you can get it fixed up
Is to go trudgin' across the tundra
Mile after mile
[Verse 18]
Trudgin' across the tundra
Right down to the parish of Saint Alphonzo
Written by: Frank Zappa
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