You're coming off like you're Van Damme
You've got Kenny G, in your Trans Am
You've got names like Billy Ray
Now you sing Hip Hop Hooray
Put your Dakleys and your stone wash on
Watching MTV and you mosh on
number one on the side and don't touch the back
number six on the top and don't cut it wack, Jack

Shiny chrome rims never rusted
Driving through the tunnel, you might get busted
Never trusted, Mullet head
You know you took that girl to bed
Cruising 8th Street Saturday night
Trying to find a head shop, looking to fight
You've got that stonewash derriere
Spike the top because the week-end is here

You want to know what's a mullet? well
I got a little story to tell
About a hair style, that's way of life
Have you ever seen a Mullet wife?

Yo, take a chill be , check out my Spillbee
'Cause you don't know about the Mullet head
Cruise in my Iroc, stonewash on my cock
Got it like that 'cause I'm the Mullet head
Put me on trial 'cause I'm worth your while
Pass me the comb 'cause I'm the Mullet man

Read the New York Post, read a story
About Joey Buttafooco in all his glory
They said he tried to freak it with a high school girl
Pimpin' Amy Fisher to the rest of the world
A real lover man, a real Cassanova
Joey got horny and now he's over
Amy got pissed, shot his wife
Joey gest to jail for the rest of his life

Cut the sides, don't touch the back


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Mullet Head Lyrics as written by Adam Nathaniel Yauch Adam Horovitz

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    great band.....saw them live...good times

    sporkifyon October 22, 2001   Link
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    This song fuckin rocks! A) it's the Beastie Boys and B) it's about MULLETS! And mullets are fuckin hilarious (and very populous at Wal-Mart stores nationwide).

    BrownBabu84on September 09, 2005   Link
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    dude this song reminds me of a teacher i had... mullets. they ARE hilarious, especially when on "authoritive figures" ha ha

    nevergophobicon July 18, 2009   Link
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    When listening to disc 2 of the 2009 remaster of Ill Communication, I wonder why the Beasties didn't make this a double album to start with. Not to say that Ill Comm needed more, but all the B-Sides are amazing! Especially Mullet Head. It did turn up in the movie Clueless & on it's soundtrack. You gotta love the reference to Joey Buttafooco & Amy Fisher. There is also an instrumental version in the Sabotage VHS from 1994 that featured footage of Yauch snowboarding.

    Mushmouth Joeon June 15, 2012   Link

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