Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Ike Willis (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Ray White (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Bob Harris (boy soprano, trumpet)
Steve Vai (guitar)
Tommy Mars (keyboards)
Arthur Barrow (bass)
Ed Mann (percussion)
David Ocker (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Motorhead Sherwood (tenor saxophone, vocals)
Denny Walley (slide guitar, vocals)
David Logeman (drums)
Craig Steward (harmonica)
Jimmy Carl Black (vocals)
Ahmet Zappa (vocals)
Moon Zappa (vocals)

The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

Heavenly Bank Account

Jesus Thinks Your
a Jerk

Theres an ugly little wasel bout three-foot nine
Face puffed up from cryin n lyin
cause her sweet little hubbys
Suckin prong part time
(in the name of the lord)
Get a clue, little shrew
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Jesus thinks youre a jerk
Did he really choose tammy to do his work?
Robertson says that hes the one
Oh he sure is,
If armageddon
Is your idea of family fun,
An hes got some planned for you!
(now, tell me that aint true)
Now, what if jimbos slightly gay,
Will pat let jimbo get away?
Everything weve heard him say
Indicated that jim must pay,
(and it just might hurt a bit)
But keep that money rollin in,
cause pat and naughty jimbo
Cant get enough of it
Perhaps its their idea
Of an affirmative action plan
To give white trash a special break;
Well, they took those jeezo-bucks and ran
To the bank! to the bank! to the bank! to the bank!
And every night we can hear them thank
Their buddy, up above
For sending down his love
(while you all smell the glove)
Jim and pat should take a pole
(right up each saintly glory-hole),
With tar and feathers too --
Just like theyd love to do to you
(cause they think you are bad --
And they are very mad)
cause some folks dont want prayer in school!
(wed need an ark to survive the drool
Of micro-publicans, raised on hate,
And jimbo-jimbo when they graduate)
Conviced they are the chosen ones --
And all their parents carry guns,
And hold them cards in the n.r.a.
(with their fingers on the triggers
When they kneel and pray)
With a ku-klux muu-muu
In the back of the truck,
If you aint born again,
They wanna mess you up, screamin:
no abortion, no-siree!
lifes too precious, cant you see!
(whats that hangin from the neighbors tree?
Why, it looks like colored folks to me --
Would they do that...seriously? )
Imagine if you will
A multi-millionaire television evangelist,
Saved from korean combat duty by his father, a u.s. senator
Studied law --
But is not qualified to practice it
Father of a love child
Who, in adulthood, hosts the remnants
Of papas religious propaganda program
Claims not to be a faith healer,
But has, in the past,
Dealt stearnly with everything from hemorrhoids to hurricanes
Involved with funding for a secret war in central america
Claiming ronald reagan and oliver north as close friends
Involved in suspicous tax-avoidance schemes,
(under investigation for 16 months by the i.r.s.)
Claims to be a man of god;
Currenty seeking the united states presidency,
Hoping we will all follow him into --
The twilight zone
What if pat gets in the white house,
And suddenly --
The rights of certain people disappear
Mysteriously?
Now, wouldnt that sort of qualify
As an american tragedy?
(especially if he covers it up, sayin
jesus told it to me!)
I hope we never see that day,
In the land of the free --
Or someday will we?
Will we?
And if you dont know by now,
The truth of what Im tellin you,
Then, surely I have failed somehow --
And jesus will think Im a jerk, just like you --
If you let those tv preachers
Make a monkey out of you!
I said:
jesus will think youre a jerk
And it would be true!
Theres an old rugged cross
In the land of cutton --
Its still burnin on somebodys lawn
And it still smells rotten
Jim and tammy!
Oh, baby!
You gotta go!
You really got to go!
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