Frank Zappa (guitar, lead vocals)
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Ray White (rhythm guitar, vocals)
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Ike Willis (rhythm guitar, vocals)
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Bobby Martin (keyboards, saxophone, vocals)
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Alan Zavod (keyboards)
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Scott Thunes (bass)
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Chad Wackerman (drums)
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From Madam Wong's to Starwood
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To the Whiskey on the Strip
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You can hear the crashing, blasting strum
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Of bands that come to be real hip
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And get a record contract
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From a talent scout some day
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They'll sell their ass, their cocks and balls
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They'll take the check 'n' walk away
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If they're lucky they'll get famous
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For a week or two perhaps
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They'll buy some ugly clothes to wear
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And hope the business don't collapse
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Before some stupid magazine
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Decides they're really good
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They're a Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
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From downtown Hollywood
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Tinsel Town Rebellion, Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
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It's a little bitty Tinsel Town Rebellion
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A Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
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They used to play all kinds of stuff
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And some of it was nice
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Some of it was musical
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But then they took some guy's advice
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To get a record deal, he said,
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They would have to be more punk
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Forget their chops and play real dumb
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Or else they would be sunk
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So off they go to S.I.R. to learn some stupid riffs
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Oh no! No no no no no no no no! Cause the aces are good
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And when they think they've got it
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They launch a new career
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Who gives a fuck if what they play
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Is somewhat insincere
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Let's dance the blues again
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Everybody!
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Dance the blues again
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Come on and
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Dance the blues again
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Get down from the...
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I write the songs that make the young girls cry!
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Did you know that in Tinsel Town the people down there
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Think that substance is a bore
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And if your New Wave group looks good
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They'll hurry on back for more
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Of leather groups
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I do I!
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We'll rock you like a nincompoop!
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and plastic groups
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Rubber goods!
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And groups that look real queer
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I'll tumble for ya!
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(He'll tumble for ya!)
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I'll tumble for ya!
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I'll tumble for ya very much!
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Moo moo moo moo moo
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(Home town sausage tambourine)
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Moo moo moo moo moo
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Moo moo moo moo moo
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Moo moo moo moo-wah!
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The Tinsel Town aficionados
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Come to see and not to hear
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But then again this system works
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As perfect as a dream
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It works for all of those record company pricks
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Let's see that record company prick again
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It works for all of those record company pricks
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Now do it when it hits the floor
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It works for all of those record company pricks
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Who come to skim the cream
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From the cesspools of excitement
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Where Jim Morrison once stood
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It's that Tinsel Town Rebellion
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From down down down
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(down down down)
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Town town town
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(town town town)
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Holly lolly lolly
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(holly lolly lolly
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Woody woody Pecker pecker
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(Woody woody Pecker pecker)
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Wood
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Woody Pecker pecker!
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Woody woody Pecker pecker!
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Hi ho Woody!
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Hi ho Pecker!
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One-Adam-Twelve, see de pecker!
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Tinsel-Town Rebellion
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| Frank Zappa |
