Edit for headphones, August 2021. A song from the debut album, the 1967 album "Safe As Milk" (deluxe edition).
The track is named after the Abba-Zaba candy bar, which was supposedly a favorite of the young Beefheart. The band had, at one point, planned to name the album after the confection, but the bar's manufacturer, the Cardinet Candy Co., refused permission for use of the name, and the album was retitled. The black and yellow checkerboard pattern on the album's back sleeve, designed by Tom Wilkes, is a relic of this idea—echoing the black and yellow colors of the candy bar wrapper.
ABBA ZABA
(Don van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart)
song before song before song blues
babbette baboon, babbette baboon abba zaba zoom
two shadows at noon, abba zaba zoom
babbette baboon, abba zaba zoom
babbette baboon
comin' over pretty soon, babbette baboon
well run, run, catch her soon, draft of dawn, sunshine on
babbette baboon
mother say son, she say son, you can't lose, with the stuff you use
abb a zab a zoom, babbette baboon
abb a zab a zoom, babbette baboon
yabba zaba zoom, two shadows at noon
abba zaba zoom, gonna catch her soon
abba zaba zoom, babbette baboon babbette baboon
run, run, monsoon, Indian dream, tiger moon
yellow bird fly high, tabacco sky, two shadows at noon
babbette baboon gonna catch her soon babbette baboon
song before song before song blues
babbette baboon, abb a zab a zoom
babbette baboon, abb a zab a zoom, babbette baboon
yabba zaba zoom
two shadows at noon, abba zaba zoom
gonna catch her soon, abba zaba zoom, babbette baboon
babbette baboon
run, run, morning soon, Indian dream, tiger moon
yellow bird fly high, tabacco sky, two shadows at noon
babbette baboon, gonna catch her soon, babbette baboon
gonna catch her soon, babbette baboo
bird fly high, tabacco sky, two shadows at noon
gonna catch her soon, babbette baboo
gonna catch her soon, babbette baboo
abba zaba zoom
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