The Spotlight Kid Songtext
von Captain Beefheart

Said the mama to the baby in the corn
You are my first-born
You shall here on in be known
As the spotlight kid

In the morning cried the rooster
The baby lay alone
In the old cotton of green grass
Shed white tears in the red hot sun

And the spotlight kid

Stood under the moon that evening
Giving her alibis
And eating her alli-moats

And the ice-cream man
Searching high and low
For his alli-moats
For his alli-moats


And the green frogs croaking around his abode
In the mudcat pond
By the old willow road

All night the village waited
And the spotlight kid never showed

She was up on the mountain
Telling her alibis
And eating her alli-moats

Mama still knew she was the one
She was the one who stole the pie
From poor ol′ mommy eye

Window bare, yeah
Rocking chair groaning like a grizzly bear

And the ice-cream man
Searching high and low
For his alli-moats
For his alli-moats

All night the village waited
And the spotlight kid never showed


She was up on the mountain
Telling her alibis
And eating her alli-moats