Flyswatter

Daisies of the Galaxy, Track 6

Flyswatter Single #1, Track 1

Flyswatter Single #2, Track 1

Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Track 11

"The Anniversary Party" Soundtrack, Track 7

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Lyrics

Little field mice
Living under the house
Never eating much
Tough life for a mouse
And if you think you're gonna be spared
You're wrong

Field mice, head lice
Spiders in the kitchen
Don't think twice
'bout whatever keeps you itchin'
Ice water, flyswatter
Gonna get you through
The day

Heat is rolling in like
Hell's red rug
Stinking like the breath of beelzebub
And if you think you won't walk on coals
You will

Field mice, head lice
Spiders in the kitchen
Don't think twice about
Whatever keeps you itchin
Ice water, flyswatter
Gonna get you through
The day

Related Interview Extracts

Q: "Flyswatter" is a sympathetic song about mice. What brought that on?

E: I moved into this house and I had these mice down in the ghetto part of my basement, and they looked horrible, very hungry. I thought, "What an awful life." The relentlessness of the world became very apparent to me, and I thought, "Ma, if these mice can't get a break, what makes me think I'm going to be spared?" It just came out of that -- another happy little ditty.

Q: Did you do anything to make them more comfortable?

E: Yeah, my cat ate them. Just to really drill the lesson home.

(http://galaxy.bykr.org/archive_interviews_ rollingstone.htm)

Trivia

Was the second single off the Daisies of the Galaxy album.

Was inspired by the mice in E's basement.

Reached number 55 in the UK Chart and was in the charts for 1 week.