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3- PANCHILLA GORILLA
OldMan: It’s been known for a couple of years
No one knows how it really began
When I was young someone bended my ear
Told me all about a holy man
He set to sea in a Chinese junk at the turn of the century
And built a kingdom far off in Nepal
and shut off from humanity
He’d laugh his face off if he heard the news
He’s wanted by Internal Revenue
Panchilla Gorilla, his riches are complete
He holds a Parliamentary seat
Panchilla Gorilla, he got power in his eyes,
The secret of ETERNAL HIGH

He bummed around for many a year
Something you boys do quite well
Till something magical happened to him
and he set off on full sail
They tried for years to catch up with him
But he hid his fortress deep
So many pits and elaborate traps
would turn hunters to mincemeat

No one alive has ever heard the word ETERNAL HIGH
There’s only one who’s learned,
Seed/
Chillum: Panchilla Gorilla
Old Man: He sits up in his house
wondering what’s the fuss about
Seed/
Chillum: Gorilla, Panchilla
Old Man: If he you wish to know, I can tell you where to go
All 3: Panchilla Gorilla, ah
Gorilla, Panchilla

Old Man: He set himself up as a King,
Bought the kingdom in an auction sale
He made up stories of the Gorilla
Who was always after human tail.
Sometimes at night when he shines a moon
All the villagers stop and pray
He’s always “on” something so they say
He isn’t sure if it’s night or day
All 3: Panchilla Gorilla
Old Man: He’s got Congress in his hand like some
crooked grains of sand
Seed/Chillum: Panchilla Gorilla
Old Man: ‘Got the power in his eyes, get to him and you’ll get by
All 3: Panchilla Gorilla, ah, Gorilla, Panchilla

( Seed and Chillum take off down the road with the SACRED BICYCLE INNER TUBE in hand. They disappear into nearby woods. Woods in New Jersey? This can’t be Wallington or what’s left of Plainsboro - home of the most annoying traffic lights and ugliest Trendoid Yuppie dwellings.

The boys soon find an old music box on the side of the road with an inscription that used to read “RoadApples”. They rub it a few times, or it rubs them, whatever, and a voice emerges….)

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from THE PANCHILLA GORILLA - 40th Anniversary Edition, released December 23, 1979
3- PANCHILLA GORILLA (c. breetveld)
Guitars, drums, bass- Chris Breetveld
Vocals- Chris Breetveld with Greg Shuss, Isabelle Shuss

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The Breetles Princeton, New Jersey

The Breetles, an American power-pop band, are Chris Breetveld and anyone who plays Breetles songs, with or without him. They became one of the founding rocks of the "Kendall Park (New Jersey) Sound" starting around 1982. They have been described as the illegitimate flower-child of The Who, The Beatles, XTC, The Kinks, Mrs. Miller and Cheap Trick. Power-pop, cleverly-stupid, quiet is the new loud. ... more

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