Village Of The Sun

Album: Rubber Slices (1979)
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  • [Chorus]
    Goin' back home
    To the Village of the Sun
    Out in back of Palmdale
    Where the turkey farmers run, I done
    Made up my mind
    And I know I'm gonna go to Sun
    Village, good God I hope the
    Wind don't blow

    It take the paint off your car
    And wreck your windshield too,
    I don't know how the people stand it,
    But I guess they do
    Cause they're all still there,
    Even Johnny Franklin too
    In the Village of the Sun
    Village of the Sun
    Village of the Sun, son
    (Sun Village to you)

    Little Mary, and Teddy, and Thelma too
    Where Palmdale Bouldevard
    Cuts on through
    Past the Village Inn and Barbecue
    (I heard it ain't there,
    Well I hope it ain't true)
    Where the stumblers gonna go
    To watch the lights turn blue
    Where the stumblers gonna go
    To watch the lights turn
    Blue

    [Chorus]

    It take the paint off your car
    And wreck your windshield too,
    I don't know how the people stand it,
    But I guess they do
    Cause they're all still there,
    Even Johnny Franklin too
    In the Village of the Sun
    Village of the Sun
    Village of the Sun, son
    (Sun Village to you) Writer/s: Frank Zappa
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Jimmydevice from Pnw Se WashingtonI now understand the blue lights and BBQ reference.
  • Ray from Maurice River Township, NjThis song, "Village of the Sun" was first recorded by Frank Zappa, and best known from, the popular 1974 album "Roxy & Elsewhere".
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