Dr. Pants: Listen

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I could probably talk all day about the history of this song, but I'll try not to...I wrote this when I was 16, and it first appeared on the Music For the Purple Ants cassette in 1993. I've recorded it a number of times since, but the best version has to be this one, performed with Matt Brownlie and Garrett Brown (the three of us as a unit were known as Dogs Sipping Vermouth). Matt is on congas and vocals, Garrett is on lead guitar and vocals. Even though I botch a line towards the end, "the Smurf Song" never sounded so grand as it did that night in '94.

ME AND MY BUD WENT TO GET SOME ICE CREAM
IT WAS IN THE AISLE WITH THE MOONBEAMS
I THINK I WAS IN THE MOOD FOR SOME SKIN
MATT NEVER TOLD ME WHERE I WAS TO BEGIN
BUT THE MUSHROOM HOUSES THEY ARE SYMBOLS
THEY REALLY KNOW WHAT'S UP, JUST LIKE MATT

GUESS WHAT, THE SMURFS ARE COMMUNISTS
I LEARNED THAT FROM MATT
HE'S A COOL GUY TO HAVE MET ONE NIGHT
HE KNOWS JUST WHERE HE'S AT

THERE WAS A GIRL THERE AND SHE WAS A BABE
SHE'S THE ONLY WAY I COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED
AT THE CATHEDRAL I WAS IN ECSTASY
AND YOU KNOW MATT SAID, "PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE"
BUT A MUSHROOM HOUSE FOR ME AND HER
MIGHT NOT WORK OUT
THEN THERE'S MATT

DESIGNING FROGS WITH A PAIR OF VICE GRIPS
I LIKE THE WAY SHE MOVES HER HIPS
MATT AND I MIGHT BE THINKING THE SAME THING
I HOPE SHE'S GONNA MAKE MY PHONE RING
AND IF YOUR MUSHROOM HOUSE HAS ANOTHER AND SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE YOUR MOTHER
JUST CALL MATT