Artist: Frank Zappa

Title: Strictly Genteel 

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Theodore Bikel: 

This, as you might have guessed, is the end of the movie. 

The entire cast is assembled here at the Centerville 

Recreational Facility to bid farewell to you, and to express 

thanks for your attendance at this theater. This might seem 

old fashioned to some of you, but I'd like to join in on this 

song. It's the kind of a sentimental song that you get at 

the end of a movie, it's the kind of a song that people 

might sing to let you in the audience know that we really 

like you and care about you, yeah . . . Understand how 

hard it is to laugh these days, with all the terrible problems 

in the world! 



Lord, have mercy on the people in England 

For the terrible food these people must eat 

(Errrr . . . excuse me) 

And may the Lord have mercy on the fate of this movie 

And God bless the mind of the man in the street 



Help all the rednecks and the flatfoot policemen 

Through the terrible functions they all must perform 

God help the winos, the junkies, and the weirdos 

And every poor soul who's adrift in the storm. 



Help everybody, so they all get some action 

Some love on the weekend, some real satisfaction 



Phyllis Bryn-Julson: 

A room and a meal 

And a garbage disposal 

A lawn and a hose'll 

Be strictly genteel 



Reach out your hand to the girl in the dog book 

The girl in the pig book, and the one with the horse 

Make sure they keep all those businessmen happy 

And the purple-lipped censors and the Germans of course 



Help everybody, so they all get some action 

Some love on the weekend, some real satisfaction 



A Swedish apparatus 

With a hood and a bludgeon 

With a microwave oven 

"Honey, how do it feel?" 



Lord, have mercy on the hippies and faggots 

And the dykes and the weird little children they grow 



Help the black man 

Help the poor man 

Help the milk man 

Help the door man 

Help the lonely, neglected old farts that I know 



Theodore Bikel: 

It's been swell havin' you with us tonight, folks! 



Mark: 

But, don't leave the theater yet, 'cause there's still more to come, 

but before we go on, I want to introduce to you my friend and 

musical associate, Howard Kaylan, who's going to give us all a 

final closing benediction