Mark Volman (lead vocals) Howard Kaylan (lead vocals) Ian Underwood (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals) Aynsley Dunbar (drums) Don Preston (keyboards, mini-moog) Jim Pons (bass, vocals)
Call any vegetable Call it by name You've gotta call one today When you get off the train Call any vegetable And the chances are good The vegetable will respond to you La La La La The vegetable will respond to you La La La La
Call any vegetable Pick up your phone Think of a vegetable Lonely at home Call any vegetable And the chances are good The vegetable will respond to you La La La La The vegetable will respond to you La La La La Rutabaga, Rutabaga, Rutabaga, Rutabaga, Rutaba...
No one will know If you don't want to let them know No one will know 'less it's you that might tell them so Call and they'll come to you Smiling and covered with dew Vegetable dream Vegetable dream Vegetable dream of responding to you Standing there shiny and proud by your side Holding your joint while the neighbors decide Why is a vegetable something to hide TO HIDE, TO HIDE, TO HIDE,...
Shooo, Shooo, Shoo, Shoo .... You know a lot of people don't bother about there friends in the vegetable kingdom. They, they think: What can I say? Some times they think: Where can I go? Where can I go to get my poodle clipped in Burbank? At Ralph's vegetarian poodle clippin', where you can come this... Where can I go to get organic vaseline for my ???? At Bob and Ray's swaheli restorant, where you can come this close..... Where can I go to get my jeans embroided at Fullurton?..... At jeans, at Jeans North where nothing fits Where can I go to get my zipper repaired in Hollywood? Who gives the fuck anyway Where can I go to get my speakers fixed? Where can I go to get my exit lights?, At Jack LaLane Hamburgers on 312 Woodier(?) Boulavard. Where can I go to get my stomach pumped? Where can I go to colapse Hey, De-due.
Questions, Questions, Questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today. Ah, but it's a great time to be alive ladies and gentlemen. And that's the theme of our program for tonight, "It's so FUCKING GREAT to be alive"! Is what the theme of our show is tonight, boys and girls. And I'm wanna tell ya, if there is anybody here who DOESN'T believe that it is FUCKING GREAT to be alive, I wish that they go now, because this show will only bring them down so much... ]
God Bless America Land that I love Call any vegetable Call it by name You've gotta call one today When you get off the train Call any vegetable And the chances are good Oh, that the vegetable will respond to you
And if you are a consenting adult we want you to call today in Los Angeles, the number is Richmond9-6935 , in Downey it's 347-8932.
Call it direct, Call it collect, But call it today.