Willie the Pimp

About Willie the Pimp

"Willie the Pimp" is a blues rock song from Frank Zappa's 1969 album Hot Rats. It features an idiosyncratic Captain Beefheart vocal and one of Zappa's classic guitar solos. It is the only track that is not instrumental on the album, though the track features a long guitar solo. The song has also appeared on Zappa's Fillmore East – June 1971 and You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 albums. The album title Hot Rats comes from a lyric of Willie the Pimp. The origin of the song was explained in a conversation Zappa recorded in 1969. This interview recording was later released as "The Story of Willie the Pimp" on the Zappa album Mystery Disc. The song was ranked number 75 on the list of "The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" of Rolling Stone. more »

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I'm a little pimp with my hair gassed back
Pair of khaki pants with my shoes shined black

Got a little lady walk that street
Tellin' all the boys that she can't be beat

Twenty dollar bill, I can set you straight
Meet me on the corner boy'n don't be late

Man in a suit with bow-tie neck
Want to buy a grunt with a third party check

Standin' onna porch of the Lido Hotel
Floozies in the lobby love the way I sell

Hot meat
Hot rats 
Hot zits 
Hot wrists
Hot ritz
Hot roots 
Hot soots

Hot meat
Hot rats 
Hot chicks
Hot zits 
Hot wrists
Hot ritz
Hot roots 
Hot soots

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands… more »

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