Dance Contest

Frank Zappa

Composição de: Francis Vincent Zappa
Fz:
"one of, one of the things that i like best about playing 
in new york is this particular place, because it has - it 
has a stage that is conducive to, how you say in the trade,
 audience participation. now if there's one thing that i 
really like, it's, uh, audience participation. now 
listen... i gotta figure out something that i can, uh - do 
you think we should have another dance contest tonight? oh,
 hey - the injured person dance contest. ah, well, let's 
see...awright, i'll tell you what we're going to do. here's
 a, here's a guy who really wants to be in the dance 
contest aw-reety, aw-righty, hey. okay..."

Butch:
"you are great, man - you are great. you are the best, 
baby. do 'dinah-moe humm.'"

Fz:
"all right, now wait a minute - what's your name? hey, hey 
- what's your name?"

Butch:
"butch."

Fz:
"awright, the dynamic butch. here's, here's a girl that 
wants to dance with butch. what's your name?"

Lena:
"lena."

Fz:
"what?"

Lena:
"lena."
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Fz:
"lena, meet butch. okay, lena and butch, couple number one.
 heh heh. okay, let's see - that guy there, with his...that
 - that one there with the teeshirt on - no, no, the other 
one - this one - no, no - no no no, wait a minute, wait... 
well, you're - actually, you're very nice, though. would 
you like to come up here? ...okay, but d'you think you can 
behave yourself? you, you're sure you can behave yourself? 
...okay, what's your name?"

Guy:
"tom, man. (mumble, mumble) you, baby, i (mumble, 
mumble)(gurgle) you (mumble, mmf, etc.)."

Guy:
"arrgh, mmmf, glurg, etc."

Fz:
"awright, now wait a minute. awright, awright, now wait..."

Guy:
"(mumble, mmf.) ugliness! ugliness!"

Other guy:
"frank, you're my buddy! arrgh, mmf."

Fz:
"awright, wait a minute, wait a minute. i have an important
 message to deliver to all the cute people all over the 
world. if you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're 
beautiful, i just want to tell you somethin' - there's more
 of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch 
out. now..."

Guy (butch?):
"will you bring my girlfriend on stage, maybe?"

Fz:
"sure. all right, now you - he wants to get his girlfriend 
- go get your girlfriend."
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Girl:
"hey zap!"

Fz:
"good to see you again."

Girl:
"squeak!"

Fz:
"i know."

Guy:
"i ain't no fucking queer."

Fz:
"all right, now look, here's what we're going to do. 
awright. now. this - they'll be mashed, i'll save them, 
i'll save them for later."

Guy:
"i'm not a fucking queer."

Fz:
"this man is trying desperately to let everybody know that 
he's not a queer. he's not queer, he's not queer. awright, 
and now... you are going to dance, like you've never danced
 before..."
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