The Mud Shark - Frank Zappa, The Mothers

Mud sh-sh-shark

The mud shark dancing lesson!

Mud sh-sh-shark

Were gonna do a little dancing,

A little dancing thing called the mud shark

Now, this dance started up in seattle

Lemme tell you bout the mud shark…

The origins of the mud shark are as follows: theres a motel in seattle,

washington called the edgewater inn.

the edgewater inns built on a pier.

so that means that when you look out your wind

U dont see any dirt -- its got a bay or something out in your backyard,

and to make it even more interesting, in the lobby of the aforementioned motel

theres a bait and tackle shop where th Idents can go down whenever they want to, and rent a fishing pole and some

preserved minnows and schlep back up to their rooms, open the window,

stick their little pole outside and within a few

Es actually catch a fish of some sort that they can bring into their motel room

and do whatever they want with it… you know what I mean?

now in this bay

theres quite a variety of ah… fish!

Nly do they have mud sharks up there, they got little octopusses that you can

catch.

and all these denizens of the deep can come in real handy…

lets say you were a travelling rock and roll ba Lled the vanilla fudge.

lets

Say one night you checked into the edgewater inn motel with a 8 mm movie camera,

enough money to rent a pole, and just to make it more interesting -- a succulent young lady (mnaaaah!) with a tas

R the bizarre… my mind drifts back to a meeting, a chance meeting in the

chicago ohare airport where the members of the vanilla fudge told don preston

about a home movie they made at the edge

Inn with a mud shark.

Im gonna tell you, this dance, the mud shark,

is sweeping the ocean…

Out

You go out

So far out

You do the mud shark.

baby … etc