- See the song notes for an exploration of some of the lyrics and trivial items of note.
- You can hear a few readings by Don Van Vliet of his lyrics on the 1993 poetry readings page.
If you have an interpretation to offer or think any of the transcriptions are wrong, please let me know.
A-Z of lyrics
- 25th Century Quaker lyrics
- 81 Poop Hatch lyrics
- Abba Zaba lyrics
- Abba Zaba song notes from Gary Marker
- Ah Feel Like Ahcid lyrics
- Ant Man Bee lyrics
- Apes-Ma lyrics
- Ashtray Heart lyrics
- Autumn’s Child lyrics
- Bat Chain Puller lyrics
- Beatle Bones ‘n’ Smokin’ Stones lyrics
- Bellerin’ Plain lyrics
- Big Eyed Beans From Venus lyrics
- Bills Corpse lyrics
- Blabber ‘N Smoke lyrics
- Bluejeans and Moonbeams lyrics
- Brickbats lyrics
- Call On Me lyrics
- Candle Mambo lyrics
- Cardboard Cutout Sundown lyrics
- China Pig lyrics
- Circumstances lyrics
- Clear Spot lyrics
- Click Clack lyrics
- Crazy Little Thing lyrics
- Dachau Blues lyrics
- Dirty Blue Gene – early version lyrics
- Dirty Blue Gene lyrics
- Doctor Dark lyrics
- Drink Paint Run Run lyrics
- Dropout Boogie lyrics
- Electricity lyrics
- Ella Guru lyrics
- Fallin’ Ditch lyrics
- Flash Gordon’s Ape lyrics
- Floppy Boot Stomp lyrics
- Frownland lyrics
- Frying Pan lyrics
- Funeral Hill lyrics
- Further Than We’ve Gone lyrics
- Gimme Dat Harp Boy lyrics
- Glider lyrics
- Golden Birdies lyrics
- Grow Fins lyrics
- Grown So Ugly by Robert Pete Williams lyrics
- Harry Irene lyrics
- Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles lyrics
- Here I Am, I Always Am lyrics
- Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat lyrics
- Hobo Chang Ba lyrics
- Hoboism / Railroadism lyrics
- Hot Head lyrics
- I Love You, You Big Dummy lyrics
- I Wanna Find Me A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go lyrics
- I’m Glad lyrics
- I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby lyrics
- Ice Cream for Crow lyrics
- Ink Mathematics lyrics
- Kandy Korn lyrics
- Kiss Me My Love lyrics
- Lick My Decals Off, Baby lyrics
- Little Scratch lyrics
- Long Neck Bottles lyrics
- Love Lies lyrics
- Low Yo Yo Stuff lyrics
- Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee lyrics
- Man With The Woman Head lyrics
- Mirror Man lyrics
- Moody Liz lyrics
- Moonchild lyrics
- Moonlight On Vermont lyrics
- Moonlight On Vermont song notes by Mark Saucier
- My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains lyrics
- My Human Gets Me Blues lyrics
- Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish lyrics
- New Electric Ride lyrics
- Nowadays a Woman’s Gotta Hit a Man lyrics
- Observatory Crest lyrics
- Old Fart At Play lyrics
- On Tomorrow lyrics
- Orange Claw Hammer lyrics
- Orange Claw Hammer song notes
- Owed T’ Alex lyrics
- Pachuco Cadaver lyrics
- Pena lyrics
- Petrified Forest lyrics
- Plastic Factory lyrics
- Pompadour Swamp lyrics
- Rock ‘n Roll’s Evil Doll lyrics
- Run Paint Run Run lyrics
- Safe As Milk lyrics
- Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top lyrics
- Seam Crooked Sam lyrics
- She’s Too Much For My Mirror lyrics
- Sheriff of Hong Kong lyrics
- Skeleton Makes Good lyrics
- Son Of Mirror Man – Mere Man lyrics
- Space-Age Couple lyrics
- Steal Softly Thru Snow lyrics
- Sue Egypt lyrics
- Sugar ‘N Spikes lyrics
- Sugar ‘N Spikes song notes
- Sun Zoom Spark lyrics
- Sure ‘Nuff ‘N’ Yes I Do lyrics
- Sweet Sweet Bulbs lyrics
- Tarotplane lyrics
- Tarotplane song notes
- Telephone lyrics
- The Blimp (mousetrapreplica) lyrics
- The Buggy Boogie Woogie lyrics
- The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or Rye) lyrics
- The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back lyrics
- The Host the Ghost the Most Holy-O lyrics
- The Party of Special Things to Do lyrics
- The Past Sure Is Tense lyrics
- The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) lyrics
- The Spotlight Kid lyrics
- The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole – song notes
- The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole lyrics
- The Witch Doctor Life lyrics
- There Ain’t No Santa Claus On The Evenin’ Stage lyrics
- Too Much Time lyrics
- Tropical Hot Dog Night lyrics
- Trust Us lyrics
- Twist Ah Luck lyrics
- Upon the My-O-My lyrics
- Veteran’s Day Poppy lyrics
- Well lyrics
- Well Well Well lyrics
- When Big Joan Sets Up lyrics
- When I See Mommy, I Feel Like A Mummy lyrics
- When It Blows Its Stacks lyrics
- Where There’s Woman lyrics
- White Jam lyrics
- Who Do You Think You’re Fooling lyrics
- Wild Life lyrics
- Woe-Is-A-Me-Bop lyric
- Yellow Brick Road lyrics
- You Know You’re A Man lyrics
- Zig Zag Wanderer – song notes
- Zig Zag Wanderer lyrics