Harpua Songtext
von Phish

Fat sweaty bulldog
Stood in the sun
Soaked in swamp
Slow motion runs
And a poor police walker
Precious birthday fudge
Swamp knife
Full name
Walker Dun Dun

Me and Harpooah
We couldn′t care fewer
It happens all the time
We beat Okibo
Me and Harpooah
We couldn't care fewer
It happens all the time
We beat Okibo


Hot liquor stone jack
Bitter toothless flesh
Shabby pimple chin slime
Evil milky rash
Me and Harpooah
Spastic dead-eyed hound
Bruised dreadlock skull cap
We′re coming to your town
We'll have your party down

Me and Harpooah
We couldn't care fewer
It happens all the time
We beat Okibo
Me and Harpooah
We couldn′t care fewer
It happens all the time
We beat Okibo

Happy Fourth of July, everybody
Happy Fourth of July

Independence Day

You know, it′s cool, I love that
Just chanting that all night long
You know, thinking it's a great country
It′s the greatest country on Earth

There is one little funny thing that I was thinking
When I was backstage before I came out here


And that is that I'm sure that most of you know
That the history that, you know
The history of our country as we know it
What they teach you in schoolbooks and all that
Is a little bit inaccurate
Some people would say that the general thing that you learn
You know, in the history books
Is, is, is a lot of lies, actually
Not, not really accurate at all

About what really happened
The history of this beautiful, amazing country
And it′s true, I hate to break it to some of you
But it's true
History books in school are mostly filled with lies

So there′s probably some of you have also heard
That there's these alternate history books

And I'm here to tell you tonight
That they are also completely filled with lies

Most people probably think that the Pilgrims
Came across in three big boats
And they landed in Plymouth Rock
And that′s what happened
The thing that I want to tell you tonight
Is that it′s okay because we're here
And we have been trying to tell the history of this story
Interlaced into the lyrics of every Phish song
Is the actual alternate history of this amazing country

You have to be very, very accurate
And look at all the different lyrics and put them together
But it′s, we've spent thousands of hours writing these songs
And it′s like a mystery, it's a clue

When you hear a line like

"Aboard a craft bereft of oar

I rowed upstream to find Lenore"

Lenore is the real monarch that we ran away from

Anyway, this story of Harpooah

Is, is really mixed in with the alternate history
And this is why we wanted to do Harpooah on Independence Day

Because, and let me tell you the story
There were not really three boats that came over here

It all started off with one guy

And he was over there in Europe
And he wanted to escape tyranny and get religious freedom

And he just had had it
And this was many, many years before the Pilgrims and all that

So this guy jumped on a log with his little dog
And he had a little dog, a puppy named Harpooah
And swam with a log all the way across the ocean

Landed over here

He′s a young man

He got here, it was beautiful, green trees and everything
And nice, nice people met him

And he was having a grand old time
And then what happened was
A few years later, when the boats came
And these people came
They started setting up colonies and all that stuff
And the next thing you know
They're building Walmarts
And there's parking lots all over the place
And really pretty much ruined everything

So this guy kept getting older and older
And he was such a peaceful man
That he actually lived for many, many hundreds of years

And he got older and older
And as he got older, he got madder and madder
With all the stuff that he saw
All just the mess that became of this beautiful, beautiful country
Turning more and more into a mess
He got more and angrier and angrier
And his dog got angrier and angrier

And he moved to this very part of the country down south
He lives right up in
He lives in the Blue
Actually, he lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Up in a little, in a little shack

And he just sits up there and seethes
He seethes, he′s so angry

Anyway, over the years of his life
As he grew, he had a few marriages
And he had some children
And those children got married
And they had children
And one of the, one of his kinfolk
Was this little guy named Jimmy
That I sing about all the time

But Jimmy didn′t know the old guy
So the old guy's sitting up there on the hill
And he′s got his dog
And he's just pissed, he′s basically angry
And Jimmy is a nice young guy
He, he's living in another house nearby
And he′s got his, uh
He's got his favorite cat that he lives with

In his little house

Poster Nutbag

Anyway, where am I going with this?

The thing about Jimmy is that

Because he's related to this angry old pre
Pre-modernized American angry old guy

He also has a little touch of that in him
And on this particular day
He′s sitting in his apartment
And he′s listening to his stereo
And he's listening to some music
One of his favorite, all-time favorite bands
He′s in there cranking it
And it actually happens to be one of the only other bands
Other than Phish that won't bullshit you
And will tell you the truth, you know, in their songs

And he′s, uh, he's cranking it
And he′s rocking out
And it sounds something like this