Curiosidades A.T.U.M.

Frank Zappa, escreveu uma opera rock polêmica, chamada 200 Motels. A obra chegou a ser chamada de pornográfica, pelo conteudo das letras da ópera. E não é que há uma letra em que surge um sanduíche de Atum. Tuna é Atum em inglês, olhem aí que doideira setentista (achei mais legal a Tuna Fish Promenade):

This Town Is Just a Selead Tuna Sandwich

(prologue)

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This Town

This Town

This Town we're in

Is Just a sealed Tuna Sandwich

with the wrapper glued

We get a few in every tour

I think we've played this before

Blergh!

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Tuna Fish Promenade

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This Town

This Town

This Town we're in

Is Just a sealed Tuna Sandwich

with the wrapper glued

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It's by baloney on the rack

It's goes for 40 cents a whack

It's just a place to us to play

to help us to pay

The cost of ticket back to LA

The cost of ticket back to LA

The cost of ticket back to LA

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All the people in the sandwich town

think the place is great

what if the part of it is crumbling down

Most of them probably won't be round

They'll either be dead

Or move to San Francisco

Where everybody thinks they're heavy business

Its just another Tuna sandwich

From another catering service

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The Sealed Tuna Bolero

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This Town

This Town

Is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich

with the wrapper glued

with the wrapper glued!

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It's by baloney on the rack

It goes for 40 cents for a whack

It's just a rancid little snack

In a plastic bag

From a matron in la Habra

with a blown out crack

who dies to suck the fringe

Of the Jimmy Carl Black!

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As letras dessa ópera são fortes de conteúdo implícito em gírias e referências. As traduções estão aqui no site do Whiplash. Márcio Ribeiro ribeiro explica: "Tuna Fish Sandwich também é uma gíria dos anos cinquenta para xoxota." Ah tá! Então tá explicado...