Frank Zappa – Drowning Witch Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

Drowning Witch Lyrics

There's a ship arriving too late
To save a drowning witch
She was swimmin' along
Tryin' to keep a date
With a Merchant Marine
Who told her he was really rich
But it doesn't matter no more...
She's on the ocean floor
And the water's all green down there
And it's not very clean down there
And water snakes
And rusty wrecks
Is all that she can see
As the light goes dim
And she's tryin' to swim
Will she make it?
(Boy, we sure hope so...)

Not even a witch oughta be caught
On the bottom of America's spew-infested
Waterways, hey-hey...
She could get radiation all over her
She could mutate insanely...
She could mutate insanely... (that's right)
You know she could go on the freeway and grow up
To be 15 feet tall and scary-lookin'
And then...
Cars could crash all over the place
As a result of people with Hawaiian shirts on...
Lookin' up to see her face
Sardines in her eyebrows...
Lobsters up 'n down her forehead
All of them horribly large from radiation
And smelling very bad
And dangerous!

Maybe a submarine could save her
And bring her home to the Navy...
For some kind of ritual sacrifice...

[Witch laughing]

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