Frank Zappa - Uncle Remus

Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

In his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands—he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship.
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Wo, are we movin' too slow?
Have you seen us,
Uncle Remus . . .
We look pretty sharp in these clothes (yes, we do)
Unless we get sprayed with a hose
It ain't bad in the day
If they squirt it your way
'Cept in the winter, when it's froze
An' it's hard if it hits
On yer nose
On yer nose

Just keep yer nose
To the grindstone, they say
Will that redeem us,
Uncle Remus . . .
I can't wait till my Fro is full-grown
I'll just throw 'way my Doo-Rag at home
I'll take a drive to BEVERLY HILLS
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up
I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn
Down in the dew

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5 comments??

Are we movin' too slow??

[Greenless001]

I love this song so much. I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn...down in the dew...

[FetaCheese222]

@MaximumFiff Just because he doesn't like Zappa doesn't mean he likes everything you hate.

[MaximumFiff]

gordy is pissed that he likes nothing but tasteless trash that he calls music, go give more money to the top 40 pop artists that the t.v. told you to like you fucking drone

[itsBayFreshALLday]

gordy had a BAD trip. . . . . . . .

[GDPmusic]

@gordy1957  GET OFF BEIBERS NUTS YOU FUCKING DUMB FUCK... actually i dont even want you to enjoy this music cuz your TOO FUCKING PLASTIC to appreciate it anyways

[VideoLogDotCom]

@billyboyblue79 funny you said the who user name uhhhhh Userfucktard666pooltable

[billyboyblue79]

Uh... gordy1957... fuck off. You're old enough to remember but you never knew. Go back to the chess club.

[gordy1957]

zappa should have been squrted into a rubber and flushed down the stool. the guy was a fucking retard

[neboloustearsproject]

RIP ZAPPA.