Moonlight On Vermont | A song by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band, 1969
Ed Caraeff, Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band, 1969
Moonlight on Vermont affected everybody
Even Mrs. Wooten, well, as little Nitty
Even lifebuoy floatin’
With his lil’ pistol showin’
An’ his lil’ pistol Totin’
Well, that goes t’ show you what, uh, moon can do
No more bridge from Tuesday t’ Friday
Everybody’s gone high society
Hope lost his head and got off on alligators
Somebody’s leavin’ peanuts on the curbins
For, uh, white elephant escaped from zoo with love
Goes t’ show you what, uh, moon can do
Moonlight on Vermont
Well, it did it for Lifebuoy
And it did it t’ you
‘N it did it t’ zoo
And it can do it for me
And it can do it for you
Moonlight on Vermont
Gimme dat ole time religion
Gimme dat ole time religion
Don’t gimme no affliction
Dat ole time religion is good enough for me
And it’s good enough for you
Well, come out t’ show dem
Come out t’ show dem
Gimme dat ole time religion
Gimme dat ole time religion
It’s good enough for me
Without yer new affliction
Don’t need yer new restrictions
Gimme dat ole time religion
It’s good enough for me
Moonlight on Vermont
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band – Moonlight On Vermont – 1969
“Like almost all of Captain Beefheart’s recorded work, Trout Mask Replica was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.”
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica, 1969
