Babyfingers(1979)OverviewTracksLyrics
The Resident's fourth album project, Tourniquet of Roses, was to be a three-sided album. Unfortunately, the band couldn't figure out how to accomplish this, and so broke the work down into a album, Fingerprince, and this single.
The 1979 edition was 35-40 copies with no artwork. About 10 of these were later hand decorated in 8 colours with felt tip pens, packaged in modified Santa Dog '78 sleeves and sent to people who had been waiting more than 2 years for their Third Reich 'N' Roll Collectors Box. The 1981 edition released the The Residents Fan Club WEIRD (We Endorse Immediate Residents Deification) was a limited run of 1500 copies in black and pink cardboard covers. The 1985 Ralph Records re-release was a limited edition of 250 copies on Pink vinyl and clear plastic sleeves
- Monstrous Intro
- Death in Barstow
- Melon Collie Lassie
- Flight of the Bumble Roach
- Walter Westinghouse
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Instrumental
Death in Barstow
Once I went to Barstow
Then I went to bed
First my friend was with me
Then my friend was dead
All his clothes were burned up
And his thighs were red
After all we've been through
What more can be said?
Once I went to Barstow
Then I went to bed
First my friend was with me
Then my friend was dead
All this thighs were burned up
And his clothes were red
After all we've been through
What more can be saaaaaaaaaaaaid
Mellon Collie Lassie
Boys from home forget to phone
And love is like a loan
Depending on the bending
And the mending of a moan
Melon Collie Lassie knows the needs of new who come
To see the Zuider Zee and then they float from one to some
Forever while she washes all the clothes are never clean
And if you ask her where you are it tends to make her mean
Flight of the Bumble Roach (Roaches That Fly)
She's a coon-ass cutie
With a brown-stained sole
From stompin' dem roaches
Flying by low low low
Low flying cockroaches three inches long,
Bare-footed coon-asses steppa dem on
Three inch cock --- roaches that fly
Bite bare-assed coon-feets
If they can get by
Low flying cockroaches three inches long,
Bare-footed coon-asses steppa dem on
Walter Westinghouse
Walter Westinghouse went to town
He found a friend today
His friend was peeling ceiling wax as
He heard Walter say:
"Love me tender, love me sweet
Love me like I love my feet
Sit me down with Ezra Pound
But don't forget to eat.
Or cause a country boy to cook
A carrot or a cake
But don't forget the feelings
Of a friend are hard to fake."
He lives a life of April leaves
Respondent to the thought that
"Often things you caught or bought
Were not the ones you sought."
Now his December is a sender
Singing songs he knows
But all the words are:
"Cheese" and
"Please" and
"Boy, I hope it snows."
He buys the bacon, and the achin'
In his heart is due
To overcoats and Quaker Oats
And if his wife should sue.
Wanda Wanda where you went and
Tell me what'd you take?
I took the tongue of Philip Jung
And left it in the lake.
But, my dear, I think I fear
That you had lost your way.
Cause scrambled eggs,
Cause scrambled eggs,
Were all he'd let me bake.
He said, "Your trust is like a crust
Too brittle and too thin."
I said you're full of nigger nuts
And look like Rin Tin Tin.
Is common ground not ever found
But flees from dad to son?
Or is it just believing that the
Evening steals the sun.
I said your snoot is full of poot
And should be in a shoe
And then I said your stupid bed
Is better off than... you...
Oh, come home, Dear!
Eat Exuding Oinks Upon
And Bleed Decrepit Broken Bones
At Caustic Spells of Hell.
Huh, What's that, Dear? Huh?
Eat Exuding Oinks Upon
And Bleed Decrepit Broken Bones
At Caustic Spells of Hell!
Eat Exuding Oinks Upon?
And Bleed Decrepit Broken Bones?
At Caustic Spells of Hell?
Yes, Eat Exuding Oinks Upon
And Bleed Decrepit Broken Bones
At Caustic Spells of Hell!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
EatexudingoinksuponandbleeddecrepitbrokenbonesatcausticspellsofHELL!
He sees the threads of worn out treads
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true
And calls his color true...