Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls: The Musical, Part One

"Gain Your Knowledge". An original song for Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls: The Musical. Words and music copyright 2009 by Robert T. Northrup. Some rights reserved under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. You can freely copy and share and remix and sing cover versions of this song as long as you don't make money off it and give proper attribution about who wrote it. Please let me know if you make a cover version of it, I'd love to see it or hear it. And contact me if you want to fund my writing the rest of the musical. I promise I will sell out at very reasonable prices. Email: ZVPmusical@gmail.com. Part Two will be a plot summary of Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls: The Musical. Part Three is another song with original lyrics based on a public domain song.

White Zombie (1932) is in the public domain.

"Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls" was a movie idea floated at Hammer Films in the 70s but never fully developed. The chorus of this song comes from a line by Rebel and Robert Rodriguez in Planet Terror: "I'm gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge." Even though the film and dialogue are copyrighted, I'm pretty sure it's not infringing to paraphrase that single line in a song.

Lyrics to "Gain Your Knowledge":

Somewhere above the clouds
where only eagles fly,
there's a patchwork magic carpet city
floating in the sky.

Your dreams will all come true
when you reach the stratosphere.
We'll throw a banquet in your honor,
lots of sauerkraut and beer.

There's magic in the air!
In our bones and under our feet.
You take a magic carpet ride
every time you walk down our streets!

Our city on the wind,
you can see it if you'd like.
Come join the final remnants
of the undead Third Reich!

(chorus)
I will eat your brains and gain your knowledge.
How I apply it is none of your concern.
I thank you kindly for your loins and sweetmeats.
I will put to good use all that you have learned.

We sewed together a thousand carpets
across the desert floor.
What did you think that whole North African
campaign was for?

Then we built a towering city on it
made of tanks and bombs and guns.
And you've never seen such an enterprising
bunch of undead Huns!

Instead of finding the Genie's bottle,
we unleashed the mummy's curse:
to live forever eating human flesh,
it could have been a whole lot worse.

Now you'll pay for what you've seen.
We feel it's for the best.
The price of admission is
we feast on your flesh!

(repeat chorus)

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[ModernDeism]

dude love the shirt 3 is my number 333 more so.where do i get one?

[deidzoeb]

@ModernDeism The full shirt says "333, only half as evil." I got it at the ice cream shop in Hell, Michigan. It looks like they sell it online at hell2u (dot) com.

[Hollrobb]

Might want to check for Radon in that basment . That could be causing this insane outburst of singing. lol, just kidding , sounded pretty good but next time put some music with it ,that'll really make it great. Thanks for the show,Hollrobb

[deidzoeb]

I tried to figure out basic chords for the song and couldn't quite get it. Hopefully there will be some instruments backing up the next song from the musical, "Lonesome Valley (of Pterodactyls)".

[coaxpro]

had a nightmare after watching that

[deidzoeb]

Ten cents, please!

(Melinda has lately begun to tell me "ten cents please" and hold her hand out when she does something worth charging me for, like walking past me or flicking me on the forehead or poking me. Also the privilege of getting to touch her in the process of paying ten cents, invokes another charge of ten cents, so it potentially goes on forever.)

[RDJim]

great pitch. I'll buy. Let's make the movie.

[lemonette]

lots of potential here, everyone loves a zombie!

[schoolmaster1945]

This reminds me of a Stephan Spielberg quote...I felt, for the first time in my career, that I was directing a stage production more than a motion picture. Part of directing is psychotherapy. You're sitting there with a lot of very talented patients, and you're hoping your movie doesn't blow up in your face in anarchy....regards...

[thebladesman]

I am without words...