Mother's No Good

The primitive
 And
 Traditional
 Initiation rites
 Have to do with
 Transforming the mode
 Of
 Reaction
 Sometimes
 And usually
 Terrifically
 Frightening
 And actually
 Very painful
 Rituals
 So that the individual will no longer think he's a little boy
 There are some rather amusing ones
 From Australia, for instance
 Where things are pretty fierce
 When little boys
 Begin to become kind of nasty
 And difficult for their mothers to handle
 The women get together and give them a good beating
 Around the legs with
 Sticks and so forth
 And then in a few weeks
 Something very interesting happens
 The men
 All dressed up
 In strange
 God-like costumes
 Such as the
 Youngsters have always been taught were the
 Figures of the
 Divinities
 They come in with bullroarers and yawls
 And all kinds of terrifying noises
 And the children
 The boys
 Run to their mothers for protection
 And the mothers PRETEND
 To protect them
 Then the men
 Grab them
 And take them away
 So mother's no good anymore
 Now they have to face this thing
 And then
 What they have to face is - is - is really no fun
 So mother's no good anymore
 Now they have to face this thing
 And then
 What they have to face
 Is really no fun
 So mother's no good anymore
 Now they have to face this thing
 And then
 What they have to face
 Is really no fun
 One of the
 Ah
 Little crises
 The boy is behind
 A screen of bushes
 And a lot of very interesting things are going on outside
 At night
 Dances and so forth
 The boys are told not to look
 Well any boy who does look
 Can you imagine what's done with him?
 He's killed and eaten
 That is
 One way to handle juvenile delinquents
 Any
 Youngster
 Who will not
 Cooperate with the society that is supporting him
 Is just eradicated
 Then
 He is given a chance
 To see what is going on out there
 So he is sitting, a scared kid
 I mean, he is about twelve or thirteen years old
 At the end of this
 Dance field
 It's night
 A strange man comes out
 Performing
 The
 Myth
 Of the
 Cosmic kangaroo
 The cosmic dog comes out and attacks the kangaroo
 Now after the youngster has seen this
 Two big fellows come rushing down the field
 And jump on the kid
 And
 Continue to jump on him
 He is going to remember kangaroo
 And dog forever
 This thing is built-in
 It may not be bright
 But they get the point
 And there are not many points to be gotten
 So mother's no good anymore
 Now they have to face this thing
 And then
 What they have to face
 Is really no fun
 So mother's no good anymore
 Now they have to face this thing
 And then
 What they have to face
 Is really no fun
 So mother's no good anymore
 Now they have to face this thing
 And then
 What they have to face
 Is really no fun
 So mother's no good anymore
 Now they have to face this thing
 And then
 What they have to face
 Is really no fun
 There are other things that happen that I won't go through
 But they are all pretty
 Um
 Exciting
 Let's say
 And when they are all over
 The kid isn't the kid he was
 Before he changed
 A lot has happened
 His body has been changed
 And
 He's then sent back
 To the girls
 And there is one of them already selected to be his wife,
 And he's now a guaranteed little man
 And he's going to behave
 As a man of this crowd
 Ought to behave