Lyrics: No Not Now (in Album Thing-fish)
Album: Thing-fish
Artist: Frank Zappa
 

Frank zappa (guitar, synclavier)
Steve vai (guitar)
Ray white (guitar, vocals)
Tommy mars (keyboards)
Chuck wild (piano)
Arthur barrow (bass)
Scott thunes (bass)
Jay anderson (string bass)
Ed mann (percussion)
Chad wackerman (drums)
Ike willis (vocals)
Terry bozzio (vocals)
Dale bozzio (vocals)
Napoleon murphy brock (vocals)
Bob harris (vocals)
Johnny "guitar" watson (vocals)

Thing-fish:
Wooo! looka-dat! a big ol’ truck, ‘n a box uh nodoz…’n ovuh deah, a greazy ol’ dinuh, where yo rubber bitch kin reassume part-time employment in her former professium: slingin’ hash in de dire
O’ de blue-collar community!

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No not now

Thing-fish:
Yep! hafta do it now!

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No not now

Thing-fish:
Now’s a good a time as any!

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No not now

Thing-fish:
Dis ermerica, boy!

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No not now

Thing-fish:
I never promised you no rose garden!

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Maybe later

Thing-fish:
Ain’t gone be no ‘later’!

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Maybe later

Thing-fish:
You got a hard row to hoe!

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She say i’m free

Thing-fish:
She not exackly ‘free’!

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She say i’m free

Thing-fish:
Mo’ like ‘available fo’ a limited time only’…

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She say i’m free

Thing-fish:
Fo part-time industrial peruse-ment!

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She say i’m free,

Thing-fish:
Look like ol’ quentim come back to peruse her one mo’ time…

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But i like her sister,

Thing-fish:
Wanna ‘peruse’ her sister, too…

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But i like her sister

Thing-fish:
Dat what dem gospel folks dream ’bouts doin’ in a dinuh!

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She can’t decide

Thing-fish:
Now rhonda can’t decide…

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Whom she wanna ride

Thing-fish:
Ain’t been ridin’ no salami fum de wimp!

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She can’t decide

Thing-fish:
I know she gwine be ridin’ sumphin’ putty soon…

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Whom she wanna ride

Thing-fish:
Ain’t gone be no ‘hobby-horse’ neetuh!

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Tonight

Thing-fish:
She need it tonite!

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Tonight

Thing-fish:
Any minnit now!

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Tonight

Thing-fish:
She so hot, it makin’ her apron wrinkle, ‘n smoke come pourin’ out de back o’ dat stupid paper hat!

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She changed her mind

Thing-fish:
Her rubber mind…

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She changed her mind

Thing-fish:
One o’ de greatest minds of our time!

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She changed her mind

Thing-fish:
De girl gots ‘talent’!

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She changed her mind

Thing-fish:
An’ she ‘rinse-able’, too!

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And i don’t blame her

Thing-fish:
I don’t blame her fo’ rinsin’ out what she had in dat mouf!

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And i don’t blame her

Thing-fish:
But de bitch gotta earn a livin’!

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No not now (no no not now)

Thing-fish:
Now when she needs it!

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No not now (no no not now)

Thing-fish:
De wimp jes’ mights fall asleep at de wheel!

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No not now (no no not now)

Thing-fish:
Git himseff all mashed up…

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No not now (no no not now)

Thing-fish:
An’ lookin’ like a pancake!

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Maybe later

Thing-fish:
Thass right! it could happen later!

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Maybe later

Thing-fish:
Dis de mammy nun show, folks! anything can happen! shut up! you needs a vacatium, boy! you gots de ‘white line fevum’! coupla donuts ‘n some cowboy music fix ya right up! breaker-breaker! git do
T de ‘come-back! sleepy wimp seek lastin’ relationship wit anally-oriented ‘luminum sidin’ salesman!

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The big ol’ hat

Thing-fish:
Wit a big ol’ hat!

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The cowboy pants

Thing-fish:
An’ some cowboy pants!

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Transcontinental

Thing-fish:
Built like a trans-continentum…

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Hobby horse

Thing-fish:
Hobby-hobby hoss!

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String beans to utah

Thing-fish:
Thass right!

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String beans to utah

Thing-fish:
Tonight!

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Ah, the wife!

Thing-fish:
Ah, the wife!

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Oh, the waitress!

Thing-fish:
An’ de waitress too!

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Oh, the drive…

Thing-fish:
Oh, ‘the drive’!

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All night long

Thing-fish:
All night long!

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String beans to utah

Thing-fish:
Yum-yum!

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String beans to utah deliver string beans to utah tonight

Thing-fish:
Giddyup!

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I better go fast or they won’t be all right

Thing-fish:
All right!

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Deliver string beans to utah tonight

Thing-fish:
Yum-yum!

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Donnie ‘n marie can both take a bite

Thing-fish:
Bite it, marie!

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Hawaiian – hawaiian – hawaiian lunch

Thing-fish:
Hawaiian lunch!

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No not now
(no no not now)
No not now
(no no no no not now)
No not now
(no no not now)
No not now
(no no no no not now)
Maybe later
Maybe later

She changed her mind
(she changed her mind)
She changed her mind
(you know she changed her mind)
She changed her mind
(she changed her mind)
She changed her mind
(you know she changed her mind)
And i don’t blame her
And i don’t blame her

She’s sorta wild
(she wild, she wild)
She’s sorta wild
(really wild, really wild)
She’s sorta wild
(she wild, she wild)
A crazy child
(crazy child, crazy child)
Tonight – tonight – tonight

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There she goes

Thing-fish:
Ooooh! there she goes!

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Up and down

Thing-fish:
Ooooh! up and down!

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Ride that bull

Thing-fish:
She’s ridin’ de bull!

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All around

Thing-fish:
All around!

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The best in town

Thing-fish:
She de best in town!

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Oh she goes

Thing-fish:
She go up, she go down!

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Up and down

Thing-fish:
I said up an’ down!

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Oh that bull!

Thing-fish:
De whole bull!

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The whole bull!

Thing-fish:
De whole bull!

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The whole bull!

Thing-fish:
De whole damn thing!

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The best in town

Thing-fish:
Where she go? ebzn-sauce!