Captain Beefheart Seam Crooked Sam Lyrics

Seam Crooked Sam Lyrics

The mule kicked off a new one 
and the stockings ran up Seam Crooked Sam 
bandana frock stuffed with smoke 
and ears out flopped like bowlin` pins 
hog troughs hocked and wallered in cool mud bins 
and patent leather hooves 
split in twos 
rooms for rent down t` Ben`s 
Frendsa danced in a frenzy 
choked a juke bird with froth glass ferns 
and turpentine urns her sawdust daily keep 
and whiskey creeps down her neck naked front 
and red leatherette 
peen button set where her fanny sweat 
raised her wrist-a-fan and a mouse coughed cotton 
through a screen door cracked sand 
rooms rent only to friends 
Hat Rack Hotel 
architecture tincture of red Arkies 
pinched the southern belle 
and splayed his cracked nail hand 
grey fedora--snappy band 
and the camel walls yelluh like damp dead chickens 
beak down the hard wood floor 
and the music--O the music 
harp man blew his best lung white shirt 
his feet worked like a monkey out the door 
and Dora robbed a baby through a dark bebop 
licorice lenses fogged in hot sorrow 
through the floorboards at the general store 
yuh foods still in the hot hand oven 
apple pie cooked through a seed bruised stem eye 
sticky in the window of Momma Frame Broke 
rope bell dinglin`