1 Meaning
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) Lyrics
Master master
This is recorded thru uh flies ear
‘n you have t’ have uh flies eye t’ see it
It’s the thing that’s gonna make Captain Beefheart
And his magic band fat
Frank it’s the big hit
It’s the blimp
It’s the blimp Frank
It’s the blimp
When I see you floatin’ down the gutter
I’ll give you uh bottle uh wine
Put me on the white hook
Back in the fat rack
Shad rack ee shack
The sumptin’ hoop the sumptin’ hoop
The blimp the blimp
The drazy hoops the drazy hoops
They’re camp they’re camp
Tits tits the blimp the blimp
The mother ship the mother ship
The brothers hid under their hood
From the blimp the blimp
Children stop yer nursin’ unless yer renderin’ fun
The mother ship the mother ship
The mother ship’s the one
The blimp the blimp
The tapes uh trip it’s uh trailin’ tail
It’s traipse’n along behind the blimp the blimp
The nose has uh crimp
The nose is the blimp the blimp
It blows the air the snoot isn’t fair
Look up in the sky there’s uh dirigible there
The drazy hoops whir
You can see them just as they were
All the people stir
‘n the girls knees trembles
‘n run ‘n wave their hands
‘n run their hands over the blimp the blimp
Daughter don’t yuh dare
Oh momma who cares
It’s the blimp it’s the blimp.
This is recorded thru uh flies ear
‘n you have t’ have uh flies eye t’ see it
It’s the thing that’s gonna make Captain Beefheart
And his magic band fat
Frank it’s the big hit
It’s the blimp
It’s the blimp Frank
It’s the blimp
When I see you floatin’ down the gutter
I’ll give you uh bottle uh wine
Put me on the white hook
Back in the fat rack
Shad rack ee shack
The sumptin’ hoop the sumptin’ hoop
The blimp the blimp
The drazy hoops the drazy hoops
They’re camp they’re camp
Tits tits the blimp the blimp
The mother ship the mother ship
The brothers hid under their hood
From the blimp the blimp
Children stop yer nursin’ unless yer renderin’ fun
The mother ship the mother ship
The mother ship’s the one
The blimp the blimp
The tapes uh trip it’s uh trailin’ tail
It’s traipse’n along behind the blimp the blimp
The nose has uh crimp
The nose is the blimp the blimp
It blows the air the snoot isn’t fair
Look up in the sky there’s uh dirigible there
The drazy hoops whir
You can see them just as they were
All the people stir
‘n the girls knees trembles
‘n run ‘n wave their hands
‘n run their hands over the blimp the blimp
Daughter don’t yuh dare
Oh momma who cares
It’s the blimp it’s the blimp.
Song Info
Submitted by
broon31 On Aug 05, 2017
More Captain Beefheart
Golden Birdies
Nowadays a Womans Gotta Hit a Man
Click Clack
Mirror Man
Moonchild
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
"Blimp" is a term for an airship or balloon, and the line "Look up in the sky, there's a dirigible there" seems to bear this interpretation out. Also, "drazy hoops" seem to be an evocation of whirring propellers.
Nevertheless, it's worth bearing in mind that Don Van Vliet grew up in the outer suburbs of Los Angeles, on the edge of the desert. Although it was moribund (and would disappear completely by 1961), the Pacific Electric tram/light railway network (operating out of the terminal at 6th and Main) still extended even into the farthest-flung parts of the metropolis during Don's childhood and teenage years, and the familiar Red Car trains were generally referred to as "blimps". Perhaps he had these in mind, too.
@SuccessStory As someone of a similar age to Don Van Vliet, and who also grew up in Southern California, I have vivid childhood memories of the Goodyear Blimp flying over. The blimps were (and maybe are?) moored in Carson. I couldn't say if they got as far as Lancaster, where DVV lived. Yeah, about those drazy hoops, I've still got no idea where that phrase came from, though I agree it seems to reference propellors.
@SuccessStory As someone of a similar age to Don Van Vliet, and who also grew up in Southern California, I have vivid childhood memories of the Goodyear Blimp flying over. The blimps were (and maybe are?) moored in Carson. I couldn't say if they got as far as Lancaster, where DVV lived. Yeah, about those drazy hoops, I've still got no idea where that phrase came from, though I agree it seems to reference propellors.