Frank Zappa Says
the Mothers of Invention
got booked
on a jazz tour in 69
a promoter’s trick
to pump up ticket sales
in the land of greed
& we didn’t play
Top 40 Rock & Roll
This was my Absolutely
Free Freak Out Uncle Meat
version of my band
on the bill with
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Gary Burton
& Duke Ellington
who I witnessed asking
the tour road manager
for a $10 advance one night
Edward Kennedy ELLINGTON
who wrote or collaborated
on over 1,000 compositions
who generously called
his music American Music
short changed in flimflam
ameriKKKa
& I started this tour off
taking $400 out
of my bank account
so my band could eat
I’m paying my musicians
out of my pocket
tour end I’m tapped out
$10,000 in debt
Horror Sleaze Trash 