The Floppy Boot Stomp - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

The floppy boot stomped down onto the ground

The farmer screamed 'n blew the sky off the mountains

Eye sockets looked down on the chestbone meadows

'N the sun dropped down, 'n the moon ran off

His heels 'n elbows pale as chalk

'N all the comets collided 'n blew to dust

For fear they’d be seen

'N the sky turned white in the middle of the night

'N the sky turned white in the middle of the night

'N the big floppy boot stomped down onto the ground

'N the red violin took the bow for to do the hoodoo hoe-down

'N the red violin took the bow for to do the hoodoo hoe-down

The farmer jumped in a circle 'n flung his chalk right down

Do-si-do the devil sure showed 'n he broke of his horns

'N fiddled him down the road

Through the fork

'N the farmer’s floppy boot stomped down

Red tail squirmin' and the hot leg kicked

'N the fire leaped 'n licked

Red tail squirmin' and the hot leg kicked

'N the fire leaped 'n licked

And when the boot came up, the fire went out

And hell was just an ice cube melting off on the ground

And the bow caught down for to do the hoodoo hoe-down

And the bow caught down for to do the hoodoo, the devil hoe-down

Through the fork, huddled' in the hollow, standin' at the crossroads

Was that bunged-up bandaged broken bum

That fell into the wrong circle

He had a sore red tail that once went red, now was pale

Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum he was summoned up from hell

Booted down a spell

By a square-dancin' farmer

By a square-dancin' farmer, well

That old bum was sticking out his thumb

When the farmer drew up and said

«Listen son», and the horse compared his hooves

«If you fall into my circle again I’ll tan your red hide

And dance you on your tail, and pitch you from now to now

Pitch you from now to now»

And the hotlick kicked, and the fire leaped an' licked

And the hotlick kicked and the fire just leaped an' licked

And the hotlick kickin' an' the fire jus' leapin' an' lickin'

And the fire leaped and licked