OK, so I'm minding my own business, editing songs for the upcoming Rise Again songbook, and I came across "Fish Heads," which was used as a closing song on one of my favorite programs on an "underground" FM station in the 1970s. I mean, everybody knows that song, right?

I think the version I grew up with was the one from the 1976 VOOBAHA by the songwriters, Barnes & Barnes (Bill Mumy & Robert Haimer).

Here's my transcription of the 1976 version:

FISH HEADS
(Barnes & Barnes)

Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up - yum!
(in G - up 4) C G C G / C G D G

Where did they come from, and how'd they really get here
What earthly purpose do they serve?

Look all around you, pretty little fish heads
Suck the eyes out, eat 'em up, yum!

If I were a fish head, I would look so pretty
I'd find a fishy girlie and eat her, too, yum!


Bill Mumy & Robert Haimer ("Barnes & Barnes")
On their Voobaha. Also rec by Wild Eyed Fischer, Buck 65, Eagle-Eye Cherry. On Dr. Demento & Simpsons ("Treehouse of Horrors VII" 1996).