Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream: Cookin’ with Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: “Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do"

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Trout Mask Replica. Ice Cream For Crow. Shiny Beast. All are untamable, twisted sonic blasts, but the album that wins our rock ‘n roll stethoscopes over every single time is Captain Beefheart’s Buddah Records debut long player, Safe As Milk (1967).

Along with “Zig Zag Wanderer“ and “Electricity,” the track that we can’t get enough of is the distilled brew of warped delta mayhem, “Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do" – a rousing lead-off track that capsizes Muddy Waters’ “Rollin’ and Tumblin,’ the blueprint for the cut. This full-blown assault is led by Captain (Don Van Vliet) Beefheart’s four-and-a-half octave guttural growl and backed by a rhythm section, led by then 20-year-old guitar wiz Ry Cooder that deploys a groundswell of busty knots and thundering menace: “Hey hey hey all you young girls wherever you're at / I got a brand new Cadillac I got a Ferrari too / Sure 'nuff baby sure 'nuff 'n yes I do,”

"Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do"
Written by: Don Van Vliet

Well I was born in the desert came on up from New Orleans
Came up on a tornado sunlight in the sky
I went around all day with the moon sticking in my eye

Hey hey hey all you young girls wherever you're at
I got a brand new Cadillac I got a Ferrari too
Sure 'nuff baby sure 'nuff 'n yes I do

Got the time to teach ya' now, bet you'll learn some too
Got the time to teach ya' now, bet you'll learn some too
Sure 'nuff baby sure 'nuff 'n yes I do

Hey hey hey all you young girls whatever you do
Hey hey hey all you young girls whatever you do
Well come on by and see me I'll make it worth it to you

.....with me and I'll ..with me and you
Sleep with me and I'll sleep with me and you
Stick with me and I'll stick with me and you.