Who Stole the Signpost? - Pere Ubu

I came out here to find Harry Partch

I drive the back roads

Mile markers ticking by

All the way from Barstow

To Big Rock Candy Mountain

Cigarettes grow on trees

Whiskey and soda bubble from rocks

I drove in vain

I look to see the shadow

Of Harry’s face

In the open doors

Of the one graffiti free box car

In a mile long freight train

Parked in the Mojave

I looked in vain

South of San Clemente

I search the coast road

For the remains of a one pump diner

Where the honking horn

Sounds like a Zymo-Xyl

Harry’s ghost is summoned to serve 5¢ gasoline

I sarched in vain