Various Artists & Los Lobos & The Roches & Mark Bingham & Michael Stipe & Natalie Merchant & Wayne Horvitz & Bill Frisell & Ken Nordine
Bonnie Raitt & Was (Not Was)
Tom Waits
Various Artists & Wayne Horvitz & Bill Frisell & Suzanne Vega & Syd Straw
Various Artists & Yma Sumac & Buster Poindexter
Aaron Neville
Various Artists & Wayne Horvitz & Bill Frisell & The Replacements & Betty Carter & NRBQ & Garth Hudson
Sinéad O’Connor
Various Artists & Harry Nilsson & Sun Ra and His Arkestra
James Taylor
Various Artists & Herb Alpert & Ringo Starr & Wayne Horvitz & Bill Frisell & Ken Nordine
I. “Pink Elephants On Parade”
[Verse 1]
Look out, look out
Pink elephants on parade
Here they come, hippity-hoppity
They're here, they’re there
Pink elephants everywhere
[Verse 2]
Look out, look out
They're walking around the bed
On their head, clippity-cloppity
Arrayed in braid
Pink elephants on parade
[Interlude 1]
What'll I do? What’ll I do?
What an unusual view
[Verse 3]
I can stand the sight of worms
And look at microscopic germs
But technicolor pachyderms
Is really too much for me
[Verse 4]
I am not the type to faint
When things are odd or things are quaint
But seeing things you know that ain't
Can certainly give you an awful fright
[Interlude 2]
(What a sight)
Chase ‘em away! Chase ‘em away!
I'm afraid, need your aid
Pink elephants on parade
[Outro]
Pink elephants
Pink elephants
Pink elephants
II. “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah”
[Intro]
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah!
Zip-a-dee-ay!
Oh my, what a wonderful day!
[Verse 1]
Yeah, plenty of sunshine
Heading my way
Zip-a-dee-doo
Zip-a-dee-ay
[Verse 2]
Oh, Mister Bluebird on my shoulder
Yes, the truth, it's actch'll (Yes, it is)
Everything is going to be satisfactch'll, yeah
[Chorus]
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Whoa whoa, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, yeah
Wonderful day, hey
[Interlude]
Well now, let's see
Exactly where were we?
As I recall, we were just about
To turn that page
And then I sort of dozed off
Well, let's see
Hmm, my, my
[Verse 3]
Mister Bluebird on my shoulder
Well it’s the truth, it’s actch'll
Everything (Everything, yeah)
[Chorus]
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Dah, dah, dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, yeah, yeah
Wonderful day, yeah, yeah
It’s a wonderful day, whoa
[Outro]
Wonderful
It's a wonderful
It's a mighty wonderful day
It's a wonderful day
It’s a wonderful day
Medley Five (”Technicolor Pachyderms”) was written by Ray Gilbert & Allie Wrubel & Ned Washington & Oliver Wallace.
Medley Five (”Technicolor Pachyderms”) was produced by Hal Willner & Van Dyke Parks.
Various Artists released Medley Five (”Technicolor Pachyderms”) on Tue Oct 18 1988.