Frank Zappa - You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here Lyrics

The gazoos always make me laugh.

*kazoos

18 people don't know where it's at.

This is the 2nd song I have from Zappa. What the funk is this Haha

You're probably wondering why I'm here & so am i

* Caravan with a drum sola? ☺

John, David Ronau, Bruce Watrol--Keeler St--Maumee, Ohio. Where I first heard this and Zappa!!!! Hilarious!!!!!

Who is on lead kazoo??

This is my jam every day.

I want to hear caravan with a drum soluh

Q pelador este hp jue

I was given this album as a kid (about 9) by a friend of my Mum's who worked for NME - apparently no one in the office wanted it! - they really didn't realise (many things) what they were giving me - one of the huge formative records of my life - still have the vinyl - thank you 'Auntie' Claire x

Only dimwits dont have a turntable!

Bought this from a little records shop on a High Street in north Birmingham England in 1967

I got dem all, man, Lumpy Gravy, Weasels Ripped my Flesh, hahahahahahahahahahahah…….Absolutely Free, two million motels, hahahahaha……………….two zillion motels...…..The Monkees…...

i wanna hear Caravan with a drum sola

Hands down, my favorite song on the album

"You're probably wondering why I'm here, and so am I, so am I."

The tambourine really does it for me.

Perfectionism at its funniest! I love it!!

I'm wondering why I'm here right now.....

Do the walls close in to suffocate ya? You ain't got no friends, and all the others they hate ya? Has the life you've been leading gotta go? Well, let me straighten you out, about a place I know... https://www.facebook.com/groups/zappafreaksunite/

I don't want to hear this I want to hear Caravan with a drum sola!

"...not that it makes a heck of alot o'difference to ya."

You're propably wondering why I'm here, and so am I.

The Xbox party song

Maybe my favorite Frank--this entire album.

This is a remastered version, right?

2:27: "Mom, I tore a big hole in the convertible."

Current tinder profile song

stunk up my baby goldfish pod and how I marvel at her strawberrries ..not for me to slay wh sew miami?

Mom I tore a big hole in the convertible.

You're probably wondering why I'm here.....

Brilliant kazoo...

Sounds kinda similiar to Bowie's first album and maybe the kinks.

Pure over rated garbage...

Mike Hunt then why are you here

Either way I love your name.

Actually both names

incredible song!!

Man it would be great if we could have a we're only in it for the money for the millennial generation. Too bad so sad

Futurama!

What a great album

"Mom, I tore a big hole in the convertible"
Hahaha! Its been a long time since i heard this and when i heard that bit it made me really laugh! I forgot how fun this album is ^_^

Spray your hair and think you're neat! ☺

Music like this makes history worth learning

Back when Top 40 bubblegam pop AM radio ruled being into Zappa who got no airplay was indeed kewl! ☺

Ironic that Donald Trump pop-ups are appearing during music that had a view of Democracy in  real lives.....shit even the cop killer lyric is appropo...........

best mf song they ever did

Does this remind anybody a little bit of Syd Barrett Floyd?

Syd Barett was influenced somewhat by Frank Zappa.

Both Genius!

It's not that I don't like Syd I do. Syd was a similar style but wasn't this good.

The Kazzzooo's are the hook .. What the world needs ,, More Kazoo

It's funny, but the Kazoo was used because the label wouldn't pay for a full orchestra.

More cowbell.

+Jeff Klassen

Exactly, a little zing at doo wop that works so well.

yes, that kazoo carries all the classic Zappa progressions you'll hear from other instruments later in his catalog

Check the kazoo solo in Aquabat's cover of Operation Ivy's Knowledge -- it's a silly song, but then again so is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWrGBlr8RQ

Uuuuuaaaaahhhhhhhh Grandioooooosooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!

i gotta go to work we only get a half hour for lunch so i packed a burnt weenie sandwich

i found frank thru listening to early aurther brown and bands like velvet underground its a blessing to love real life and enjoy exploring the truth please dont be a sell out go with humour and bad spellin

+manolito hernandez
Zappa wanted Arthur Brown in The Mothers but Arthur did too many drugs.

@Suchapill!! Oh cool, I didn't know that. The original Mothers drummer Jimmy Carl Black did work with Brown though. The album I know they did was called Brown Black and Blue. XD

So am I.

50 years old still brilliant

Brilliant as the stars above!

This is one of those songs that I frequently get stuck in my head and sing in the middle of the work day.

Not that it makes a heck of a lot difference too yeh

Just as much as you wonder
If I mean just what I say
(Yeah!)
That's just how much I question
The social games you play

This is great! I had to laugh at 0:33 to 0:42.  xD

+Andrew Houlyn You had to laugh because of the kazoo?

@Zappa Victoria  Yes

@*****  Hahahaha xD

the mothers are not a fucking laughing matter kid ill slice ur fucking throat dont evr fucking "xd" in your life u pussy

2 idiotas nao gostaram!!!!!

mesmo (agr são 6) xD

Ma I tore a big hole in the convertable.

Looove this song and album...not that it makes a heck of a lot of difference to ya

maximum

No one can top Mr. Zappa. He is a classic.

If you lived in the 50's and early 60's you will get this song...It's all about greasers and the phoney people...Cars, big hair and fights...That's what the greaser days were all about..and that's what he's calling out...

moi aussi, je m'demande...

I quoted this lyrics in the chapter one of my doctoral dissertation.

@Hiromasa Tanaka I'm just wondering what was you're doctoral dissertationabout ?

I’ve been wondering about your development

@Scarlett Ken FEERRRRRRRRR-GET IT!

Did you play the kazoo afterwards?

Zappa re-released his catalog in the mid-80s when CD's were taking over as the dominant format, and this album was one of the first CD's I bought. Always loved the xylophone banging away in the right channel. "Mom, I tore a big hole in the convertible" still cracks me up!

That xylophone is great isn't it.

Thing is, who played it? Not sure the person is even credited....should have top billing considering it is played quite a lot, and is a big part of the sound! Any idea?

Hey Prizewinner, since reading your post a few days ago I have been trying to find out. The xylophone features very prominently on Disc One of Freak Out, and Wikipedia has a good listing of session players, but nobody is actually credited with playing the xylophone! You are right, it is very prominent and whoever played it should get credited.

I was entertaining the idea that it was maybe Zappa himself....he did write a lot for tuned percussion. Just guessing. There must be some footage about that might give a clue if it was anyone else in the band at that time. Seems like a weird omission. This is one of my favourite songs off the album...I like his doo-wop pastiches a lot too. I heard "Cruising With Ruben..." the other day...what a great record! I wish he'd done more like that! It feels very real to me. It reminds me a hell of a lot of the Bonzo Dog Band.....I think they (Zappa and Vivian Stanshall) had a lot in common...

it sounds to me that Frank had a whole lot of fun with his work , this song makes me laugh every time .

This is fuckin awesome

I wanna hear Caravan with a drum sola!

Yeah apparently yelling 'Caravan' as a song request was the 1930s equivalent to yelling 'Free Bird' as a song request like we do today.

@Buddy ♫ lol

Oh, no, it was up until the mid-60s at least. The current version, originating in the late 80s is "Play That Funky Music White Boy". Yet another motive for teachers and lawyers to all dance the poot

@Zeppelin ♫ Whipping Post!!!

makes me feel young as the first day to hear it

Kazoo et autres instruments...Belle époque les mecs ! Du brut.

mom I tore a big hole in the convertible.

I didn't "discover" Zappa until 1991 or so, and this album was my introduction. The phenomenal melodies and chord progressions are what sucked me in (as well as the knowingly corny humor), but ultimately the messages are what made me stay. The message in this song is so much more relevant to me than the stupid tired socio-political rants most "artists" are so fond of these days. In fact it's more relevant in today's cardboard society than ever. The fact is Zappa was not only a musical genius, he had the balls to say what so many others are scared to say. Appallingly, there are still people out there who are convinced he must have done drugs because he was so "weird". I'm not into hero worship, but Zappa is as close to a hero as I'll ever have.

Zappa probably did the usual drugs at the time because he was obviously anti greaser types who were not the hip kids...in those days it was the greasers against the hip, later hippies...so cheesie bars and the rich kids who had convertibles that got their tops ripped were targets of the hip or hep...He felt they were all robots with no minds of their own much like today lol

He was a huge nicotine addict but that was it. He insisted that tobacco was only a plant, and smoking a cigarette was no different than eating a salad.

@StudioZ7 don't forget the coffee.

yup me too.. bt was at ‘93... the year frank died.. 😥

I've seen pictures of him drinking beer and that's all. He was naturally high. Didn't need drugs to augment his perspectives.

Same here, just on Owsley acid.

I love this song.

Bought this album in 1966 when it first came out. I was 15. Scared the hell out of me and my friends so we listened to it over and over.

the ultimate song for performance

1966 ! It's right, man . . .

Nostalgia
So, you are working some crappy job in the 1970 era, and your co-workers also know these songs, which are filled with non-sequiturs and seeming nonsense to outsiders, making memorization of the lyrics and intonations a premium skill among sophomoric virtues. A comparable interest was Firesign Theater, particularly "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers."

'not that it makes a heckuva lot of difference to ya'

All true, don't forget the National Lampoon Radio Hour and the Fugs.

Firesign Theater was awesome..."out of the fog into the smog dangerously, ruthlessly, I wonder where Ruth is?" Nick Danger Third Eye...

That show is phenomenally great! :-) Thanks so much for mentioning it.

I wanna hear "Caravan" with a drum sola!

Ditto!!!

You may be right but it seems that well meaning folks like you & I have been participating in or contributing to fundraising for medical research for decades for cancer & MD but the cures seems to be ever elusive. Perhaps we just expect miracles to happen overnite like when March of Dimes fundraising led to polio vaccines back in the 1950s. We can only hope that more medical miracles happen soon.

The last decade has created stuff that is in the PIPELINE. They have to test stuff for side effects. EX. Thalidomide restricts capillary growth to cancer cells. In 10 years you'll be surprised how far they will have come. Even on the genetic level. Google treatments using "Extra cellular Matrix." WOW!

Amazing that medical science can invent a hard-on pill for old guys (Viagra) but can't cure cancer. But then some folks do go into remission with current treaments tho there is no "magic bullet" cure & who knows if there ever will be.

A buddy of mine played his Freak Out album for me when I was 17 & just had to run out & buy my own copy of it! In the 1970s I loved his anti-disco song (Dancing Fool) as well as his Jewish Princess song on the Sheik Yerbouti album.

+WytZox1

I just want a princess who bites. duh duh duh duh dunh- dunh- dunh- dunh 🎶

I can dig that. I was the same way.cant figure how I neglected the early stuff. I came in at like Zoot Allures? Overnight Sensation . a guy in the apts I lived in said Zappa music scared his girlfriend when he played it.:) lol.

I started with this album, and then got into almost every one after that as they came out. Did the same with the Stones, Beatles, Talking Heads, Captain Beefheart, and Jimi.. The Zappa album "Absolutly Free" was amzing! And "we are only in it for the money" was just great.

When I was in high school in late 1960s most of my peers were listening to bubblegum rock on Top 40 AM radio but an elite kewl group was into Zappa.

He did check it. The incompetence of Dr's and tests killed him How typical.

"Don't forget to register to vote." That's how he ended every concert of his I saw. He should have also added something about his prostate. Such a loss.

I love FZ how the fuck could I have neglected this gem. shame on me till now.

Yeeaaauh

His words and spirit will never leave us. Saw him at Winterland in SF and at the Circle Theatre in San Carlos. I think this album was quite likely the Mothers of Invention's best album because it was so pure and raw and reflective and monumental in its social commentary. Apostrophe was good too but this album shows the cynicism about the plastic society when our awakening consciousness began to realize the incredible con America had become, swindled for years about Wonder Bread and Superman.

☺Gerry Kirstein

Brilliant description of this album Gerry. 👍

i like frank zappa soo much

Frank Zappa truly was a genius.

genius!

yeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhh!

'Mom, Dad, I tore a big hole in the convertible..''