Po-Jama People Lyrics

Lyric discussion by reagan0 

Cover art for Po-Jama People lyrics by Frank Zappa

Frank was notoriously anti-drug. He was rather famous for stopping in the middle of a concert, if he saw people in the audience passing a joint, or popping pills, or doing something else obviously drug related, and lecturing them about drug use. There is an example of this in at least one of his concert videos.

That said, the song is about a number of people in his band and entourage that would come to work stoned on downers (and other drugs, but primarily downers). He had little patience for such people, and even fired a few of them. This song is his rant about it.