Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

A song by Frank Zappa.

This is the first part of the "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow suite", which opens the album "Apostrophe". The suite follows an eskimo, Nanook, inside a dreamlike setting which gets more distorted the more the suite goes on.

Released in 1974 as a single, this was the first Zappa song to hit the charts, at #86, although it only constitutes the first 45 seconds of the single version, with “Nanook Rubs It” comprising of the rest of the run time.

Verses

• Verse 1
  Dreamed I was an Eskimo
  Frozen wind began to blow
  Under my boots and around my toes
  The frost that bit the ground below
  It was a hundred degrees below zero
• Verse 2
  And my mama cried, "Uh-uh-hoo-hoo"
  And my mama cried
  "Nanook, a-no-no, no-no, Nanook, a-no-no, no-no
  Don't be a naughty Eskimo"
  "Save your money, don't go to the show"
• Verse 3
  Well, I turned around and I said "Ho, ho"
  Well, I turned around and I said "Ho, ho"
  Well, I turned around and I said "Ho-Ho"
  And the northern lights commenced to glow
  And she said, with a tear in her eye...

Outro

Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow