Signature song of the Las Vegas alt-novelty combo Tippy Elvis. The band's lineup of instruments -- guitar, drums, keyboard -- was fairly conventional, but the bass lines were supplied by the winsome Ginger Bruner and her tuba. This led to their defiant retort to their critics: sure, maybe we suck, but of all the rock bands in Vegas only we have a tuba. A punk rock tuba, no less.
The song is old school hardcore, Dead Milkmen style; singer Dayvid Figler screeches, growls, spits and yelps over the band's pell-mell performance, and of course the tuba dominates and provides the solo halfway through.
Fuck your guitars
Fuck your bass
Fuck your drums, and
Fuck your pretty boy lead singer
Cuz we've got a tuba
A punk rock tuba
It's mean and it's rude
A tuba...A tuba
so Fuck you
...ba.
Fuck Johnny Rotten
Fuck Sid Vicious, too
Fuck Darby Crash
Fuck Bob Mould
Fuck Lee Ving
Fuck Exene and, well...
Fuck Exene!
Fuck every English guy named Ian and
Fuck Maria Conchita Alonso!
Cuz we've got a tuba
A punk rock tuba
It's mean and it's rude
A tuba...A tuba
so Fuck you
...ba.
It's a mouthpiece full of spit
It's got a giant bell!
Press the valves of anarchy
THEN YOU GO TO HELL!!!
Cuz we've got a tuba
A punk rock tuba
It's mean and it's rude
A tuba...A tuba
so Fuck you
...ba.