The Mud Shark Songtext

von Frank Zappa

Mud Sh-sh-shark

THE MUD SHARK DANCING LESSON!

"Lemme tell you 'bout the Mud Shark...
The origins of the Mud Shark are as follows: Thers's a motel in Seattle, Washington called the Edgewater Inn. The Edgewater Inn's built out on a pier... so that means that when you look out your window you don't see andy dirt--it's got a bay or something out in your backyard... And to make it even more interesting, in the lobby of the aforementioned motel there's a bait and a tackle shop where the residents can go down whenever they want to, and rent their rooms, open the window, stick their little pole outside and within a few minutes actually catch some fish of some sort that they can bring into their motel room and do whatever they want with it...
You know what I mean?
Now in this bay there's quite a variety of ah...FISH! Not only do they have mud sharks up there, they got little octopusses that you can catch. And all of these denizens of the deep can come in real handy...
Let's say you were a travelling Rock and Roll band called Vanilla Fudge. Let's say one night you checked into the Edgewater Inn Motel with a 8mm movie camera, enough money to rent a pole, and just to make it more interesting -- a succulent lady (Mnaaah!) with a taste of the bizarre...
My mind drifts back to a meeting, a chance meeting in the Chicago O'Hare Airport where the members of the Vanilla Fudge told Don Preston about a home movie they made at the Edgewater Inn with a Mud Shark. I'm gonna tell you, this dance, the Mud Shark, is sweeping the ocean!..."

Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby . . . etc.