It sounds like it may just be Howard; I'm not sure if Mark is singing.
After "Daddy Daddy Daddy", Howard says:
"Well, listen honey, I don't care if you don't want to do it. I think you smell anyway, as a matter of fact, and I'd just as soon pull up the easy chair by the fire xxx over there and pass me that xxx of brandy there and this packet of..."
Twenty small cigars
Twenty small cigars
Twenty small cigars
The tape cuts off before the end of the song, so there may be a fourth
verse, which I imagine would run as follows:
Twenty small cigars
According to Nigey Lennon, this song "started life back in the Studio Z days as an insipid vocal that began, 'If you say goodbye/I know that I will surely die.' (Being Frank, p. 147)
I went to see the Grandmothers at The Subterania' in London, uk (1993/08/09). Bunk Gardner announced a track as being one that some of them had played with Frank. He said it was named 'Hot Rats'. They went on to play '20 Small Cigars'. Obviously, it was a while back now, but I remember it well as I was intrigued by a Frank track I did not know, and double intrigued when it turned out to be a different name for one of my favourites!
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