Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - The Floppy Boot Stomp Lyrics
The floppy boot stomped down onto the ground
The farmer screamed 'n blew the sky off the mountains
Eye sockets looked down on the chestbone meadows
'N the sun dropped down, 'n the moon ran off
His heels 'n elbows pale as chalk
For fear they'd be seen
'N the sky turned white in the middle of the night
'N the sky turned white in the middle of the night
'N the big floppy boot stomped down onto the ground
'N the red violin took the bow for to do the hoodoo hoe-down
'N the red violin took the bow for to do the hoodoo hoe-down
The farmer jumped in a circle 'n flung his chalk right down
Do-si-do the devil sure showed 'n he broke of his horns
'N fiddled him down the road
'N the farmer's floppy boot stomped down
Red tail squirmin' and the hot leg kicked
'N the fire leaped 'n licked
Red tail squirmin' and the hot leg kicked
'N the fire leaped 'n licked
And when the boot came up, the fire went out
And hell was just an ice cube melting off on the ground
And the bow caught down for to do the hoodoo hoe-down
And the bow caught down for to do the hoodoo, the devil hoe-down
Through the fork, huddled' in the hollow, standin' at the crossroads
Was that bunged-up bandaged broken bum
That fell into the wrong circle
He had a sore red tail that once went red, now was pale
Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum he was summoned up from hell
Booted down a spell
By a square-dancin' farmer
By a square-dancin' farmer, well
That old bum was sticking out his thumb
When the farmer drew up and said
"Listen son", and the horse compared his hooves
"If you fall into my circle again I'll tan your red hide
And dance you on your tail, and pitch you from now to now
Pitch you from now to now"
And the hotlick kicked, and the fire leaped an' licked
And the hotlick kicked and the fire just leaped an' licked
And the hotlick kickin' an' the fire jus' leapin' an' lickin'
And the fire leaped and licked
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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band The Floppy Boot Stomp Comments
Such a great great album...The Captain makes life worth living, even after a five day binge. A true wizard.
ive been listening to laura nyro latlely and if this sounds great after her music you gotta love it its entirely its own animal free ranging lol the blimp
now I see where tom waits went with swordfish trombones lol this will get you out of yourself just play this at addiction meetigs
the more i listen to beefheart the more i realise how much of the mighty boosh was inspired by his music
Fi Fa Fo Fank You for sharing this piece of Magic
Captain, my Captain.
This is a great c.b. song, probably the best one on the album. & a great meet the devil song.
some of the best music there is
oh hell ya love this
Don't mess with farmers anywhere in the world . You'll get pitched from now to now . Aural poetry . Devil stomping poetry .
A true folk song in the old tradition. Genius.
Bulbous also tapered _(that's right.)_
Beefheart's best recorded album. Telling an actual semi-coherent story; a horror fairy tale of hoodoo magic. Because hell was just an ice cube melting off into the ground....
Ahh Don van, nice
The farmers crops are failing, he decides to summon the devil by dancing to see if he can help his disastrous harvest.
Van Vliet at his best!
If you're talking about Avant Garde Rock, This is it!.....
abouz ol baz
God damn! Great song
el capitano bee fart
This sounds to me like the continuation of Electricity!!! Lov it 😍😍😍😍😍
Every time I stumble upon a Beefheart song I've never heard, I'm amazed that it wasn't an instant hit.
This song was written to remind people that nobody slays the captain.
fe fi fo fum best song
Why doesn't this music find it's way more into movies and tv?
Zappa Family Trust owns it...and we all know what a clusterfuck _that_ is.
Oh Christ, that explains everything. I love me some Zappa, but those kids are beyond fucked up. They are constantly in battle over his estate.
It's not Dweezil it's that nutcase Ahmed and that greedy bitch Gail...
@mrkrinkle72 Gail died.
Goddamn genius.
Pfffffffhahahaha ! This piece is so ominous yet thrilling. Perfectly chaotic timing. I love the production on this.
My skin felt electric the first time I heard this..
I need better speakers for this.
0:49 - 1:11 That sounds EERILY like Lindsey Buckingham on backup vocals....
You'd go your own way if you were dating that mad harpy, too.
Under such circumstances, you must -never- *_always_* break The Chain. (Fuck chains, anyway.)
might be the greatest song ever but were not sure yet
+SoundboyEric What are you waiting for? :D
@Erik Lauritsen to decifer captains message
this has positivitely knocked me off my socks
Avant Garde Pop !!
One of the best !!
And hell was just an ice cube melting off on the ground....
If you fall in my circle again I'll tan your red hide and dance you on your tail!! and pinch you from now and now!!! Fucking love Don's word play!!
+Zach Greco That old bum was sticking out his thumb
When the farmer drew up, said
“Listen son”, and the horse compared his hooves.
“If you fall into my circle again I’ll tan your red hide
And dance you on your tail, and pitch you from now to now
Pitch you from now to now.”
awh damn if only it where pinch :( haha still boss though!!
Scientific proof that 2 out of 21 people are tone deaf.
The poor buggers can't even _smell_ the notes...they should catch an express bus to Soddington.
24 yrs ago i purchased trout mask replica...listened to a few tracks and promptly returned it to the store...repurchased it a week later and became a lifelong fan. i was aces at resealing cds with a thin strip of double stick tape back in the day. wtf there were no listening stations or ways to sample cds before purchase.
shiny beast on cd was so hard to find back in the 90s as was lick my decals off baby.
fucking yeah. just what I needed right now as the snow dumps all over us again, 2x's a week since January - and the sky turned white in the middle of the night. I'm covered in chills, I'd lost track of this album, need to find it and worship it, again. Miss you MM.
Musicianship par excellence, I LUVZ DON I DUZ
So far this is my favourite of Beefheart's bizarre experimental mumbo jumbo stuff. Still have a lot more to check out.
I miss the times when we weren't afraid to do something different. When great things sprung up from the most unlikely places and it was cool to listen to something or appreciate an art form even if no-one else around you agreed.
A menacing masterpiece.
Blows my mind about the 2 Fucking losers givin' this thumbs down.
Ah, don't let your beautiful mind be blown by listening-impaired-haters. No need to feel bummed out cuz you have us - hen you can be be happy with us, the ones who get it. Ya could dancin with me right now Fear thee, beast !
yeah!!!!@Holly Allison
yeah, baby.. I'd stopped following these pages bc *I* was getting bummed out by so much anger... who needs it. Floppy Boot Stomp: my best friend had a floppy foot (bad accident) and he was a blast to dance with esp with that foot, .my bestie was a Beasty (come out and meeet the monster tonight) and of course a Beefheart fan tho his wifey was not " I don't get it" . Nope she sure didn't.
Hoodoo blues. Funky, scarey, and just so wicked. I love this tune.
the captain and magic band for life.
this song is so totally under-rated.
@Heisen Berg: Look bro, I love Beefheart as much as the next guy but don't diss J Dilla... J Dilla actually was a multi-instrumentalist and jazz musician. His hip-hop stuff is based on that Jazz knowledge. It's not fair comparing J Dilla and Beefheart since they did completely different things for completely different audiences and they were the best at what they did.
Of course you are probably one of those guys who thinks hip-hop and electronic music is "not real music" so opinion discarded.
I think we should just agree that Beefheart and Dilla are the two greatest geniuses that popular music has ever seen. Not that they were popular.
When the boot came up...the fire went out...this guy is a friggin genius...what's wrong with music?...it's not this!
J Dilla would steal this stuff..they were not musicians, they were button pushers.
I wouldn't know, I don't waste my time and ears on hip hop or rap.
"Shitty" Beefheart is better than most of his contemporaries' releases at the time. Observatory Crest is totally modern sounding right now, with a quasi-hip hop groove and echo guitar you might hear from J Dilla or Flying Lotus.
Who are the corny-assed motherfuckers that would give this a thumbs down?
primal bluez
PALMA VIOLETS
I also love this album. Coincidental ? I think not
AND THE SKY TURNED WHITE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
AND THE SKY TURNED WHITE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
I think this is the best track Beefheart and the Magic Band ever produced. I also think this is the best album they ever made.
I love the arrangements, the simple production and the complex but accessable character of the music. Heard this album for the first time when it came out and never stopped loving it !
an the big floppy boot stomped down into the ground luvvit :D
"Food Dog" By Electric Six references this song...
...andtheskyturnedwhiteinthemiddleofthenightandtheskyturnedwhiteinthemiddleofthenight...
This song = fucking excellent. Period.
this song rules so fucking much,
absolutely true, they were both inspired by howlin' wolf and many others, whatever, both are genius in their own way... there is a generation between them too.
@MegaYoshitsune I always understand but never quite agree with all the Tom Waits/Captain Beefheart comparisons. Both have growly voices, both explore blues music in a wholly innovative way, both love their surrealist lyrics and wacky rhythms, but their artistic sensibilities are SO INCREDIBLY different.
@RedVynil True, I mean, Tom Waits is good, but Beefheart just blows away pretty much everyone. And I agree about his worst album, that still has Party of Special Things to Do and Observatory Crest which I think are really good despite the fact than some songs on there are a bit, "questionable." Beefheart always seemed kinda crazy, yet he also seemed like a genius.
@MegaYoshitsune The only shitty Beefheart was when he was on Mercury. And there's even a few of those songs that are good!
Tom Waites can't hold a candle to Beefheart!!
I love this song, and so does Tom Waits. Captain Beefheart almost always had brilliant lyrics in his songs.
@thealtusflute I think it's his best album.The rest is a little too aberrated. .
@thealtusflute Me too!
love this album!