40 Years of Our Family, by Japonize Elephants

40 Years of Our Family

by Japonize Elephants

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1.	Implied Leprosy 06:46	lyrics	buy track
We need your support, perhaps a red Ford Escort, to house our relief station new Zulu nation preparation H bombs dropping from the sky, malt liquor dripping from my stye, PIG PEN! CRACK DEN! quarantined to be yer friend like the face of Mona Lisa get some help from Ma Theresa... Why have you fallen down? I saw you hangin' 'round yesterday on the corner of West and Grand. Pink plastic skirt, seams seem to hurt, a tube top doesn't qualify as a shirt. Choppers in the sky, venchly land on the bad guy 'til he realizes that he ain't so bad. Ma Theresa standing by with her white cloth in the sky. Toes say goodbye. Leprosy is implied.
2.	Whiskey Willie 03:44	lyrics	buy track
He's got good whiskey we'll drink him dry. Drink him t the bottom of the great divine. He's got good whiskey now I wouldn't lie. Tilt the bottle up and drink it down will he die? woohooooooo He's got whiskey He worked in a freezer it chilled him to the bone. He tried all night to please her, she were colder than a stone. Pokin' at those ice cubes with an ice pick you might think, but the things that he are freezing that's the pelts of oily mink. woohooooooo He's got whiskey You can kill a man for cheatin' you can kill him for his shoes. But expect to get a beatin' if yer reachin' for his booze. Willie stood to shoot a man but slipped and broke a bone. The barkeep had good whisky but Willy brought his own...
3.	Gordon Sherwood 04:08	lyrics	buy track
He's a picky little cowboy, we've told you that before, but now we're going to tell you even more about the little guy with webs on his two toes, things about him we've seen that nobody know what to make of those burgers up his nose, a frown that only grows, and robots eatin' what???
4.	Landing Strip 01:21		buy track
5.	Le Bon Matin 05:46	lyrics	buy track
My mother surely believed that the universe was made out of corn trees and liniment is all we need for the rest of us can choose our disease. Le bonmatin, la nuit était si soûle et moche. Le bon matin, et mon coeur bat à la gauche. Le jus de fruit, ma bouche encroustillée. Le jus d'orange, well it tastes so tasillée. Je lave mon singe. lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala ooooooooooohuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh!!!!
6.	MM1 00:20		buy track
7.	Co' Brickey 05:10	lyrics	buy track
Ole bricky and loaded with seeds All tricky and loaded with cheese Load nineteen bowls if you please Eat another ham on rye you stupid sleaze Ole bricky full of meat All tricky and full of me's Load nineteen bowls if with seeds Eat another ham on rye loaded with cheese Cole bippy if you please Big sippy you stupid sleaze Load nineteen bowls full of meat Eat another ham on rye full of me's hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha hahaha Double Dippy, loaded with grease Beef bucket bitch all loaded with sleaze Wheres my clothes feller they ain't freeze If you don't have my bag I apall-o'-jeez Head to the concrete if you please foot to the chest it's gettin' hard to wheeze Kickin' yer ass it's such a breeze Taking my bag with the greatest of ease Co' Brickey you have been a perfect gentleman tonight Co' Brickey you look so cute in your little leisure suit Co' Brickey you go Isabel Co' Brickey you have been a perfect gentleman Co' Brickey!!
8.	Iggaboustamonteguae 03:34		buy track
9.	MM2 00:07		buy track
10.	Molly's Midget Mansion 07:26	lyrics	buy track
Welcome, welcome, gather 'round. Get them suckers by the pound. Well listen to that little noise. Look at all them, look at them little toys. They italied their days to waste, while Molly ruled their place... At three foot six she's a hairy little bitch with hairy feet and hairy eyes, she's even got hairy tits, polka dotted panties and a smile like a clown's, she's my oh my sweet Molly Brown. Molly's gotta mansion of people shorter than her, paper thin walls and a floor made outta dirt. She's the queen of the hill, everybody's thrill, livin' at Molly's, Molly's Midget Mansion. Trés bête en France Trés Bette en Italy Trés bête au Japon Trés Bette en Allemagne.
11.	Intro To Bacon 00:42		buy track
12.	Bob'S Bacon Barn Train Bacon Grass Special #3 Pt. 1 03:45	lyrics	buy track
Ketchup Bacon Sammiches gimme 1 or 2 Nitrate Porkly goodness sure do make you poo Ketchup Bacon Sammiches'll turn ya into grues It doesn't really matter when you put it on the platter the bacon makes you fatter and the pigs they go a splatter All over you!! Ketchup Bacon Sammiches, dollar ninety nine Ketchup Bacon Sammiches, gotta feed up on the swine The barn burnt down the clowns left town What a quag-e-mire! They cooked it and stirred it and stewed it and steamed it and slurped it and whirred it... The Hill Peoper Choir they just set a fire, the firefighters are still in the briars, and the cows'ere overturned Yessir... And the cows'ere overturned Toined....
13.	Bobby 06:14	lyrics	buy track
Change yer booties, so your feet will not smell so bad. Don't get cooties, keep yerself clean and you'll be glad. Et toi! Dirty birdies are a thing no one likes to smell. Keep yerself clean and don't leave home without the jell Et toi! Bobby used to change his shoes and his socks but now Bobby lives in a cardboard box. Bobby used to listen to what his mother would say, he cleaned himself three times a day! Bobby's got a smell, I said it's like no other. the man in the garbage can looks like Bobby's brother! Bobby he cleaned his life up and he says, "everything's just ducky." Well he got a new bug and we say "he's so lucky!" What the fuck was that?!
14.	Faun Fables 05:00	lyrics	buy track
Faun Fables Nils and Dawn the Faun!
15.	Log Cabin Blues 03:27		buy track
16.	Lowly Lows 03:34	info	buy track
17.	Japonize Elephants 01:59		buy track

credits

released January 1, 2003

Sylvain Carton - guitar, vocals
David Gantz - junk, vocals
Evan Farrell - bass, vocals
Jeremy Baron - banjo, mandolin
Mitch Marcus - tenor saxophone, piano
Chris Hiatt - flute, alto sax, slide and tin whistles, vocals
Megan Gould - violin, bowed mandolin, saw
Jason Slota - glockenspiel, marimba
Isabel Douglas - accordion
Charles Ferris - trumpet

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Japonize Elephants San Francisco, California

This eclectic ensemble plays its own brand of well-honed “hardcore-gypsy-circusgrass-pirate-clown madness.” The Japonize Elephants have arrived at their totally unique sound through the use of innovative arranging techniques using an extremely varied instrumentation featuring glockenspiel, junk percussion, vibraphone, accordion, guitar, bass, flute, saxophones, trumpet, violin, banjo, and vocals. ... more