Captain Beefheart Ballerin` Plain Lyrics

Ballerin` Plain Lyrics

Parapliers the willow dipped  
Rolled roots gnarled like rakers  
This hollow hole don`t hold no jokers er` fakers  
Don`t fall by no jokers or fakers  
Puller down to the stirrin` hay acres  
Parapliers pinches a levy `n pulled way thru the toe  
Foothills, locomotives walked `n sugar beets rolled  
Down the tracks  
Sunbum bounce soot off the black smokestacks  
Parapliers pinched up slow down the sky  
Blue `o` poured the engineer`s voice  
Whistlin` down low `n piped like clacks  
By the ol` scarecrow  
`n pots `n pans burn the fireman`s hands till the  
Kettle leaped fire `round the belly `o`  
The bayou boy bums with sunken gums  
`n pits his strength to the 7th sons down  
Parapliers rumbled like uh straight iron gun  
Like a red hot iron through the egg white `o`  
Sunnyland drum, horn blow  
Sun like uh bubble pop yellow, down she go  
Muh cowcatcher whistled like uh steel flash scream  
Hose sucked out for water `n the wheeldriver  
Sparkled like an Indian flint  
`n the fireman `n the brakeman bent `n waved his long  
red underwear arm  
All aboard  
The lantern flared `n the caboose waved uh green gone on