You can hear a few readings by Don Van Vliet of his lyrics on the 1993 poetry readings page.
See the song notes for an exploration of some of the lyrics and trivial items of note. If you have an interpretation to offer or think any of the transcriptions are wrong, please let me know.
A-Z of lyrics
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Appears on: Lyrics Safe As Milk - Bat Chain Puller lyrics
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Appears on: Bat Chain Puller Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics - Call On Me lyrics
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Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Circumstances lyrics
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Appears on: Lyrics The Spotlight Kid - Crazy Little Thing lyrics
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Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Dirty Blue Gene – early version lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics Outtakes Strictly Personal - Dirty Blue Gene lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics - Doctor Dark lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - Drink Paint Run Run lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics Outtakes The Spotlight Kid - Dropout Boogie lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Safe As Milk - Electricity lyrics
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Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica- Fallin’ Ditch lyrics
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Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - Floppy Boot Stomp lyrics
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Appears on: Lyrics Outtakes The Spotlight Kid - Further Than We’ve Gone lyrics
Appears on: Bluejeans And Moonbeams Lyrics - Gimme Dat Harp Boy lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Strictly Personal - Glider lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Spotlight Kid - Golden Birdies lyrics
Appears on: Clear Spot Lyrics - Grow Fins lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Spotlight Kid - Grown So Ugly by Robert Pete Williams lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Safe As Milk - Harry Irene lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) - Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles lyrics
Appears on: Clear Spot Lyrics - Here I Am, I Always Am lyrics
Appears on: Grow Fins Lyrics The Legendary A&M Sessions Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat lyrics
Appears on: Ice Cream For Crow Lyrics- Hobo Chang Ba lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Hot Head lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics - I Love You, You Big Dummy lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - I Wanna Find Me A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - I’m Glad lyrics
Appears on: Grow Fins Lyrics Safe As Milk - I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Spotlight Kid Ice Cream for Crow lyrics
Appears on: Ice Cream For Crow Lyrics- Ink Mathematics lyrics
Appears on: Ice Cream For Crow Lyrics - Kandy Korn lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Strictly Personal - Kiss Me My Love lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Outtakes The Spotlight Kid - Lick My Decals Off, Baby lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - Little Scratch lyrics
Appears on: Clear Spot Lyrics Outtakes The Dust Blows Forward - Long Neck Bottles lyrics
Appears on: Clear Spot Lyrics - Love Lies lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) - Low Yo Yo Stuff lyrics
Appears on: Clear Spot Lyrics - Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics - Man With The Woman Head lyrics
Appears on: Bongo Fury Lyrics - Mirror Man lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Mirror Man - Moody Liz lyrics
Appears on: I May Be Hungry But I Sure Ain't Weird Lyrics Mirror Man - Moonchild lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Legendary A&M Sessions - Moonlight On Vermont lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - My Human Gets Me Blues lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica- New Electric Ride lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Unconditionally Guaranteed - Nowadays a Woman’s Gotta Hit a Man lyrics
Appears on: Clear Spot Lyrics - Observatory Crest lyrics
Appears on: Bluejeans And Moonbeams Lyrics - Old Fart At Play lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - On Tomorrow lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Strictly Personal - Orange Claw Hammer lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Owed T’ Alex lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) - Pachuco Cadaver lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Pena lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Petrified Forest lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - Plastic Factory lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Safe As Milk - Pompadour Swamp lyrics
Appears on: Bluejeans And Moonbeams Lyrics - Rock ‘n Roll’s Evil Doll lyrics
Appears on: Bluejeans And Moonbeams Lyrics - Run Paint Run Run lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics - Safe As Milk lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Strictly Personal - Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top lyrics
Appears on: Bongo Fury Lyrics - Seam Crooked Sam lyrics
Appears on: Bat Chain Puller Lyrics - She’s Too Much For My Mirror lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Sheriff of Hong Kong lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics - Skeleton Makes Good lyrics
Appears on: Ice Cream For Crow Lyrics - Son Of Mirror Man – Mere Man lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Strictly Personal - Space-Age Couple lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - Steal Softly Thru Snow lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Sue Egypt lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics - Sugar ‘N Spikes lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Sun Zoom Spark lyrics
Appears on: Clear Spot Lyrics - Sure ‘Nuff ‘N’ Yes I Do lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Safe As Milk - Sweet Sweet Bulbs lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Tarotplane lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Mirror Man - Telephone lyrics
Appears on: Doc At The Radar Station Lyrics - The Blimp (mousetrapreplica) lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - The Buggy Boogie Woogie lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or Rye) lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - The Host the Ghost the Most Holy-O lyrics
Appears on: Ice Cream For Crow Lyrics - The Party of Special Things to Do lyrics
Appears on: Bluejeans And Moonbeams Lyrics - The Past Sure Is Tense lyrics
Appears on: Ice Cream For Crow Lyrics - The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - The Spotlight Kid lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Spotlight Kid The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole lyrics
Appears on: Ice Cream For Crow LyricsThe Witch Doctor Life lyrics
Appears on: Ice Cream For Crow Lyrics- There Ain’t No Santa Claus On The Evenin’ Stage lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Spotlight Kid - Too Much Time lyrics
Appears on: Clear Spot Lyrics - Tropical Hot Dog Night lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) - Trust Us lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Strictly Personal - Twist Ah Luck lyrics
Appears on: Bluejeans And Moonbeams Lyrics - Upon the My-O-My lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Unconditionally Guaranteed - Veteran’s Day Poppy lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Well lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Well Well Well lyrics
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics Outtakes - When Big Joan Sets Up lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - When I See Mommy, I Feel Like A Mummy lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) - When It Blows Its Stacks lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Spotlight Kid - Where There’s Woman lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Safe As Milk - White Jam lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Spotlight Kid - Who Do You Think You’re Fooling lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics The Legendary A&M Sessions - Wild Life lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Trout Mask Replica - Woe-Is-A-Me-Bop lyric
Appears on: Lick My Decals Off Baby Lyrics - Yellow Brick Road lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Safe As Milk - You Know You’re A Man lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) - Zig Zag Wanderer lyrics
Appears on: Lyrics Safe As Milk