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Years ago a friend of mine gave me a mixtape filled with the Ventures, Dick and Dale, and this one incredible song by the Butthole Surfers called “Johnny Smoke” from their album Hairway to Steven<\/em>. Is there anything by this band that sounds remotely like this song? Is this the only surf rock performed by the Butthole Surfers?<\/p>\n

\"hairway-to-steven\"<\/a><\/p>\n

JOHNNY SMOKE<\/h3>\n

This here a song is about John W. Smoke, Jr.<\/p>\n

It’s about bein’ in love
\nand lovin’ the love that’s hatin’ the love,
\nthe love and the love and the hate that love revolves around the love that’s hate that’s the hate that’s the love and that love’s the love that’s the hate that’s hatin’ the love, it’s lovin’ the hate.<\/p>\n

It’s about John W. Smoke’s mom.
\nIt’s with his mom.
\nIt’s about his mom.
\nIt’s about his mom.
\nIt’s about lovin’ his mom and bein’ without his mom,
\nand lovin’ the hate that’s hatin’ the love and his mom and all the time they’re there hatin’ the hate that’s lovin’ the hate it’s love it’s the loveless hate.<\/p>\n

And it goes somethin’ about like this:<\/p>\n

Johnny Smoke,
\noh Johnny Smoke.
\nJohn Smoke.
\noh Johnny Smoke.
\noh Johnny Smoke!
\nJohnny Johnny Johnny Jahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!<\/p>\n

John.
\nJohn Smoke.
\nJohnny Smoke.
\nHere we go.<\/p>\n

John… John was a little crippled midget lesbian boy
\nbut he stood ten foot tall with a knife<\/p>\n

Pretty soon a mole had appeared on John’s left leg
\nand, rope-like, it extended out 469 different miles
\nand verily, verily, it was 69 different nuns
\nspeaking simultaneously to John in 69 different languages.<\/p>\n

And then it evolved itself
\nand it was the legless dog
\nthat become a cyclone in John’s bodily forehead.<\/p>\n

And there it was
\nlike a twinkie with a halo storm in it
\nand it revolved down into the sky
\nand talked to John like he was a little puppy himself.<\/p>\n

And John said that,
\n“I am not the magma, I am not the crust, and I shall evolve.”<\/p>\n

And the rain had come down and it washed on John.<\/p>\n

And he said that,
\n“I will be a cigarette butt before it’s all done with.”<\/p>\n

And they said,
\n“No. You are the flame itself and you shall burn pure in the South American sky where the blood-dogs worship the still.”<\/p>\n

Johnny Smoke.
\noh Johnny Smoke.
\noh Johnny Smoke! OW!<\/p>\n

Johnny Smoke
\nJohn Smoke.<\/p>\n

oh Johnny
\nJohnny Johnny
\nJohnny Johnny Johnny Johnny Johnny
\nJohnny Johnny Johnny Johnny Jahhhhhhhhhhhhhh…<\/p>\n

And so,
\nbrainlessly,
\nleglessly,
\nhairlessly,
\nthe Foil Tip,
\ncome of itself,
\nand revealed to John
\nthat the Q.E.2 luxury liner
\nhad extended out of John’s left side.<\/p>\n

And so,
\nit had reached through him [to] Mars
\nwith a slam backwards
\nand upwardly they did evolve.<\/p>\n

Downward they fell
\nlike a thin sheet of waste product
\nthat had come over John’s body.<\/p>\n

His body was no longer the prime vehicle to express itself.<\/p>\n

And he could not be the dog.<\/p>\n

And the dog’s eyes,
\nwhich had blood comin’ out like they were
\nroped around John’s leg
\nand pulled him up like he was a canoe.<\/p>\n

And he floated on the life essence himself
\nthrough South America where he was in love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Is this the only surf rock performed by . . . → Continue reading: Johnny Smoke<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-lyrics","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nJohnny Smoke • Aharon's Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/09\/johnny-smoke\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Johnny Smoke • Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Years ago a friend of mine gave me a mixtape filled with the Ventures, Dick and Dale, and this one incredible song by the Butthole Surfers called “Johnny Smoke” from their album Hairway to Steven. 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