Lyrics
The Earth’s Fire-Breathing Daughter came up from Oakland town
With her High Priest and her coven, who had good jobs all around
Now where to find a stretch of land, and a good big house therein
Enough to hold them, every one?
Where else but Marin!
The day that they were moving in, the Welcome Wagon came:
'Twas a guru in a nightshirt, and a wealthy local dame
They murmured, «Groovy, what’s your sign?» «Not now,» the Priestess said
«Will you help me haul this freezer in?»
The couple turned and fled
Next week the Priest went shopping, and he came back with a steer
Alive and well and mooing. The neighbors said, «My dear!
Is this organic lawn control?» «Hell no,» the Priest did say
«It's our Summer Solstice sacrifice!»
The neighbors ran away
The Summer Solstice ox-roast was a blast you couldn’t beat --
The coven ate and drank and danced 'til they passed out on their feet
The neighbors, peeping through the fence, yelled, «Where d’you think you are?
The nudity and grass are fine --
But the dancing goes too far!»
The neighbors got together, and they said «These freaks must go They must be smoking Mary Jane -- we’ll tell the sheriff so!
We’ll hide our coke and call the Law! But first we’ll warn them fair --
Let’s burn a hot-tub on their lawn
And chase them out of there!»
The Earth’s Fire-Breathing Daughter sent a message to the town:
«If you don’t leave me and mine alone, I’ll shake your playhouse down!»
The neighbors sneered, «Ooh, how uptight! How superstitious, too!»
Then they hollered for the Law
As lib’rals always do The Sheriff of Laidback County, and all his Laidback men
Went rolling up the coven’s hill, but then never came back again
For the hills did shake, and the earth did quake, and a mudslide thundered down
A police-car-model radio deck
Was all that anyone found
There is a house in North Marin the locals all ignore
For since the earthquake hit, it has no neighbors any more
But late at night when the moon is bright, there’s a fire on the hill
And the sound of pipes and laughter where
The coven dances still!
