"Bozo the Bum and Pennyscrounge the Clown" genre: General Comedy
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	A hilarious tale of two street performing musical clown bums
	CD: Demo   Label: Avant-garde Productions Credits: Music and Lyrics by Bizy B
	Story Behind the Song The original members of Monkey Shines (Bizy B, B Money, and El Rojo) were down in San Jose, CA. They had just come back from visiting Big Skinny in Half Moon Bay. It was Cinco de Mayo, 1999. As they drove past downtown they saw thousands of people partying in the streets. They parked at the house on E Julian Street and walked downtown. It was chaos- absolute madness. They walked around a corner and saw a bum who was dressed in a clown suit. He was drunk and he was playing a trumpet- trying to get some more money for booze. Bizy B wrote the song the next day. The first verse is true- the rest sprang from imagination. Lyrics Bozo the bum was dizzy on his rum He was playing on a horn in need of a drum He was really quite drunk- sounding very strange eyebrows full of fur- looking quite deranged He had curly red hair, pollups on his nose a crimson-stained face, redder than a rose He was totally decked out in full clown suit decor He had a little blue tie that Ive seen before Bozo the Bum played down on Market Street with a head full of whisky and pennies at his feet. (oh yeah) Pennyscrounge the clown was the new clown around He could play a mean sax but he was lacking in the facts He liked to huff on the gas, wail on the fumes Breathe in the dust of spray can purfumes He had curly green hair and paint on his face A one piece suit, a second in his case He had a cross-eyed stare and it made you wonder where was he looking at you or was he looking over there? Pennyscrounge the clown played down on first street with a head full of fumes and pennies at his feet. (oh yeah) Bozo the bum was busy with his beam He was saving his money to buy some Irish Cream He had on his hand a dirty sock puppet He was his best friend and he wailed on the trumpet Pennyscrounge the clown had a street cleaning tongue He had to play his sax with one collapsed lung He was foggy in the brain somewhat addle-patted If he wasnt high on fumes he was heavily sedated Bozo the Bum met Pennyscrounge the clown on a mid-summer day in the middle of town (oh yeah) Bozo the Bum was a boozer for life He was breast-fed gin from his fathers third wife He had an empty can of Spam that he used as a mute and a broken piece of tube for a make-shift flute But he and Penny were bound to set their sights to the goals of stardom and living in the heights They had some problems they were both getting older and neither one of them could seem to stay sober Bozo was a drinking drinker of drinks and Pennys head served as a science lab sink (oh yeah) Bozo and Penny had not yet played a tune when a man dressed in blue came and said they had to move So they packed up their things and headed to L.A. where they knew they could hang and play all day Bozo and Penny knew they had to learn So they stayed out and played until the sun burned They got real good- they got real tight A man came by and said youre out of sight Next thing ya know, Bozo and Penny were aglow with a million dollar advance and their own t.v. show (oh yeah)

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