Fritz The Cat

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Hey, yeah. The 1960's?

Happy times, heavy times.

All right, so you get

your daughter, right?

She might be Catholic,

Jewish, anything.

So you bring her up

in what they call...

the bourgeois,

American-type-society family.

Bring them up so they don't

screw until they get married.

You take them to church

on Sunday.

Teach them all you can

about bringing up a family...

how you should look and act...

then you send them to college.

You bust your hump.

No government subsidy.

Nobody's paying nothing.

You save your money,

or you borrow the money...

you work overtime,

you send her to college.

You want her

to get an education.

The first Easter

she comes home on a vacation...

she says, "Hey, Dad,

I'm living with some guy."

"You're living with some guy?

What do you mean?"

"This is the thing now.

Free love."

We're getting away

from the original point.

What we're trying to find is,

why are these bastards rioting?

Because they did dope.

Listen, you're going

in the wrong direction.

What of it?

What happens is, look,

I'm sending you to school...

I'm breaking my ass to send you

to college, right?

I expect you're going

to learn something.

Why be a janitor?

Learn something.

To justify my investment in you.

But some of these people

revel in the fact...

that their kids are leaders,

are rabble-rousers.

This son of a b*tch

just started a riot.

These kids think

they're the first generation...

that ever screwed

before they got married.

We all did,

but we always had one girl.

She screwed...

that girl you took out.

It's better off

these kids don't get married...

because they haven't got

the guts to stick with it.

Hey, you f***ing intellectuals

You think

you're so where it's at

Before you fill your minds

with any junk

Better listen to Fritz the Cat

'Cause writers and poets

and artists

It's your duty

to live life to the most

So fly out, brothers,

and check out the world

Give me a ride to the coast

Fritz the Cat

He fought many a good man

Laid many a good woman

Live life to the fullest

Cry out for more

until it bleeds

Help me,

help me help you, mother...

Love me,

I hate you, love me

I kill you, love me

I love you

What a mob in the park today.

God, the place

is crawling with phonies.

Yeah, high school punks.

Those creeps are always here

on weekends, man.

Most of them are total jackoffs.

So many people here

and nobody here.

-Dig that chick, man!

-Over there?

Man, look at that ass on her!

-What a baby carriage.

-So what, man?

If you hadn't showed up so late,

we'd be all right now.

Fritz always does it, man.

Everybody's here with

their guitars already.

Sixteen versions

of "Lemon Tree."

I just want someplace

where I can sleep.

I mean, I can cook.

I can sew and do housework

and things like that.

Get out the guitars.

Come on, get them out.

And one, two, three.

Once I had a little girl

Who was in love with me

Well, well, baby,

I know, I know

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah

Oh, mama, mama,

singing it, ho

Dumb chicks.

-Easily impressed by spades.

-lt's the thing, man.

Look, I'm gonna split.

I'll see you guys later.

Yeah, hang loose, Fritz.

I've read everything

James Baldwin's written.

He has a true sense of

the problems of black people.

I worked for Head Start

for free last summer.

Black kids

are so much groovier.

I went to a couple of

Black Panther meetings.

The time for

non-violent revolution is past.

More power to the people!

I'm taking a course

in African studies at school.

I had no idea you people

were so civilized.

Do you know

that property values...

actually go up when

a black family moves in?

Freud didn't write

for the black man.

Why does a great actor

like James Earl Jones...

always have to play black men?

Don't you hate it when people

say "Colored" or "Negro"...

and not "Black"?

Black is beautiful.

It's so great that black people

wear their hair natural...

not emulating

the image of beauty...

white people inflict upon them.

I had a black girlfriend once

who said that Jewish people...

were the closest

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