Lyrics: Well there's gonna be a freaker's ball (ha ha) Tonight at the Freaker's Hall And you know you're invited one and all Uh oh Come on baby's grease your lips Grab your hats and swing your hips And don't forget to bring your whips We're going to the freaker's ball (yes) Blow your whistle, and bang your gong Roll up something to take along It feels so good, it must be wrong We're freakin' at the freaker's ball Well all the fags and the dykes they're boogie-in' together The leather freaks are dressed in all kinds of leather The greatest of the sadists and the masochists too Screaming please hit me and I'll hit you The FBI is dancin' with the junkies All the straights, swingin' with the funkies Across the floor and up the wall We're freakin' at the freaker's ball, y'all We're freakin' at the freaker's ball Everybody's kissing each other Brother with sister, son with mother Smear my body up with butter And take me to the freaker's ball Pass that roach please, and pour the wine I'll kiss yours if you'll kiss mine I'm gonna boogie 'til I'm cold blind Freakin' at the freaker's ball White ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones Necrophiliacs looking for dead ones The greatest of the sadists and the masochists too Screaming please hit me and I'll hit you Everybody ballin' in batches Pyromaniacs strikin' matches I'm gonna itch me where it scratches Freakin' at the freaker's ball, y'all We're freakin' at the freaker's ball We're at a ball We're freakin' at the freaker's ball
@@rodgerhoneycutt4154 I've got a few PC, wokish kinda friends and I love singing this and Zappa's Bobby Brown when we have a get together. I can see them seething inside when a bunch of others join in with it.
@@maggiekissa6954 The Album version (also on RUclips) has that verse. Cynthia PlasterCaster died in 2022; there was an obituary in The Times (of London).
@@rodgerhoneycutt4154 How did we go from this way of living to the bizarre hyper sensitive "woke" world, and in just a few short generations? I'll answer my own question - social media and the internet. The Internet is the greatest thing to come along social media is the worst.
This band is so tight and yet so free... It's just so good! It's March 2024 And its still so good. This is how you do it. They lay you down gently and then they give you every bit of it! Emotionally sincere. Raw and fearless. Soulfully sweaty. Joy and grit delivered it perfect harmony, done to perfection. No tricks of the trade just some of the best live showmen I've ever seen. They love what they do, and I love watching them do it. It's a live band Master class!
Freakers Ball is so politically incorrect lol but your not a true fan if you dont love this song ! And yes if it came out in this day in time , it would be banned on radio and have a warning label on Album or CD .
Actually thought about asking my local radio station to play this song or "Sylvia's Mother", most likely either they say "No" or just simply hang up on me..who knows.
Never in music has there ever been or will ever be again a band who LOVES performing like Dr Hook!!! I missed their party by 4 years, but I've done my best to catch up! (wink, nudge)
What a crazy bunch but they sure could sing and never missed a beat. Today they would be censored for this one and Ray could sure play the part. RIP Ray.
I am very sure there was gay straight bi ,curious ,black ,red ,white ,brown in the audiance an everyone just havein a gtreat time ,maybe were to serious now ,or not
@@allinsondixon8224 All that and a few more, Allinson. A lot of folks these days would have a seizure if they were to listen to these guys and the likes of Frank Zappa. Geeze, some off 'em even get triggered if you get their imaginary pronoun wrong. Gawd help anyone who doesn't know what imaginary gender they are for that day.
Man RUclips randomly played this.. I remember my mother driving me to school playing a Dr. Hook 8 Track & of course this.. Killer song from back in the day
These guys were in a movie Paint Your Wagon. There's a scene where a band is playing and they are the band. "Hand Me Down That Can of Beans" was the song.
The best Rock and Roll band ever. HOFA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would give up everything to have seen this great band live.
Remembered those days. Great music, great drugs. Back then, everyone was exploring music or anything that could get them high. That didn't come from China or a cartel, all home grown. After 50 years I'm still smiling.
I have no idea how me and my coworker got on this topic but she started blasting it outside one day and I had to show my husband! He said he likes dr hook but didn’t know this song existed. We all learn something new every day 😂😂
👀🇨🇦 Too bad if some people are offended, different era, don't like the song don't listen. Can't change history. All in fun.❤❤❤❤this era ,greatful to have grown-up in this era ❤❤😊
Hell I have to tell you if we had the internet back then I'd have gone viral for sure. I had very young parents who were hip and hippies so I knew dr hook well. In fact they used to let me stay up when they had parties, the adults would get stoned & 3 yr old me would get sugar high, lol. They'd plop me on the coffee table and I'd belt this song out at the top of my lungs. this and Queen of the Silver Dollar (which, to this day, I claim as my theme song). Good times.
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️what a show,,.That's such talent,&having such great fun.Thats most likely the secret,,Don't take yourself seriously Just have a blimey good time doing something you love..♥️♥️♥️♥️
these guys were just absolutely party til you puke crazy great fun! the fragile, safe space kids would never understand how to enjoy this and all the other magic this band made! rock on brothers and sisters!
So does this 70 year old! I'd even like the video shown, but don't think hubs would allow either one,which is fine with me cause I'd be off somewhere rapping with Ray.
I think it is actually totally politically correct. That’s the beauty of the song. Anything is ok. They done it as a kinda joke but these days everything is acceptable.
Saw them in London years ago.think it was at the round house trouble broke out in the crowd and sawyer came off the stage waded in and sorted it Absolutely brilliant up to a few years ago locarriere was doing this own show just him a guitar all the songs and lots of anecdotes. He was a regular at the stables in Wavendon the Dankworths theatre. Milton Keynes
There were clubs like this 40 years ago in the West Village, NYC. Totally different age, where the attitude was 'Different Strokes for different folks,' meaning live and let live.
OMG, just had my youth from the 70's and early 80's flash before my eyes. Memorized and quoted this daily in high school in Vancouver, BC. However, thought the lyric was "Pass that roach please...and poor the wine...I'll kiss yours if you kiss mine". Must have toned it down for this performance. To paraphrase When Harry Met Sally"...I'll have whatever they're having. LOL
Hello. I hope this day finds you well. I just wandered in here after listening to the Shel Silverstein version while digging through stuff I taped from Dr. Demento, back in the '70s and '80s.
I'm 62 and have always loved this band! There's so many older songs that would not be accepted today, but, we have to accept the junk from rappers and hoes today...not gonna do it!
Lyrics:
Well there's gonna be a freaker's ball (ha ha)
Tonight at the Freaker's Hall
And you know you're invited one and all
Uh oh
Come on baby's grease your lips
Grab your hats and swing your hips
And don't forget to bring your whips
We're going to the freaker's ball (yes)
Blow your whistle, and bang your gong
Roll up something to take along
It feels so good, it must be wrong
We're freakin' at the freaker's ball
Well all the fags and the dykes they're boogie-in' together
The leather freaks are dressed in all kinds of leather
The greatest of the sadists and the masochists too
Screaming please hit me and I'll hit you
The FBI is dancin' with the junkies
All the straights, swingin' with the funkies
Across the floor and up the wall
We're freakin' at the freaker's ball, y'all
We're freakin' at the freaker's ball
Everybody's kissing each other
Brother with sister, son with mother
Smear my body up with butter
And take me to the freaker's ball
Pass that roach please, and pour the wine
I'll kiss yours if you'll kiss mine
I'm gonna boogie 'til I'm cold blind
Freakin' at the freaker's ball
White ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones
Necrophiliacs looking for dead ones
The greatest of the sadists and the masochists too
Screaming please hit me and I'll hit you
Everybody ballin' in batches
Pyromaniacs strikin' matches
I'm gonna itch me where it scratches
Freakin' at the freaker's ball, y'all
We're freakin' at the freaker's ball
We're at a ball
We're freakin' at the freaker's ball
I've heard this with another verse in it..🤪
I’ve never cared much about offending anyone
@@rodgerhoneycutt4154 I've got a few PC, wokish kinda friends and I love singing this and Zappa's Bobby Brown when we have a get together. I can see them seething inside when a bunch of others join in with it.
@@maggiekissa6954 The Album version (also on RUclips) has that verse. Cynthia PlasterCaster died in 2022; there was an obituary in The Times (of London).
@@rodgerhoneycutt4154 How did we go from this way of living to the bizarre hyper sensitive "woke" world, and in just a few short generations? I'll answer my own question - social media and the internet. The Internet is the greatest thing to come along social media is the worst.
This band is so tight and yet so free... It's just so good! It's March 2024 And its still so good. This is how you do it.
They lay you down gently and then they give you every bit of it!
Emotionally sincere.
Raw and fearless.
Soulfully sweaty.
Joy and grit delivered it perfect harmony, done to perfection.
No tricks of the trade just some of the best live showmen I've ever seen.
They love what they do, and I love watching them do it.
It's a live band Master class!
March 2024 here!
Same here brother!still listening March '24
JUNE 2024
July 2024
August 2024😎😉👍👍❤
How can anyone thumbs down this song about universal peace and understanding?
Letting go is the hardest part
Amazing how much the human body can take and still function. Man, I miss these guys
They were sooo fucked up.
I can’t even imagine how may people would be offended by this. Awesome.
This is why love this song🤪
That was the intent.
I just referenced this song to someone who said our generations music wasn't as bad as today's with the example of WAP by Cardi B...😂
They’re freaking awesome and anyone that don’t like it can geeeet out
I think that was entirely the point
Can you imagine if this song was produced today. Man the uproar!!!!!! Going to share on my Facebook lol
Haha that is awesome 👍
The Zuck might zuck you.
Freakers Ball is so politically incorrect lol but your not a true fan if you dont love this song ! And yes if it came out in this day in time , it would be banned on radio and have a warning label on Album or CD .
Shit me too
@@tammybray5008 tbh it seems pretty inclusive to me
All 3 of us kids knew this by heart before kindergarten. 80s parenting was just different. I had no idea what it meant but we loved it.
I remember the crazy song”I was stoned and I missed it” Wonderful!
I sang this at a buskers a few months ago. To say it got a mixed reception would be wrong. I'm 82
Oh, those glorious seventies. They were having a lot of fun!
We are there but none of the music just pestilence and pain
Can you even imagine how many people would lose their minds if this played on the radio now. 😂
Actually thought about asking my local radio station to play this song or "Sylvia's Mother", most likely either they say "No" or just simply hang up on me..who knows.
Never in music has there ever been or will ever be again a band who LOVES performing like Dr Hook!!! I missed their party by 4 years, but I've done my best to catch up! (wink, nudge)
Raised on Dr.hook I’m 58 yrs old still like to jam to it
I been saying for years this band had more fun then any band. Tx
I love Dr Hook..... Sloppy seconds album ❤️
They were so trashed that I doubt if they remember that set, but somehow they pulled it off. Well done gentlemen.
I don't think they ever played a gig where they weren't just shit faced
being HIGH is what life is all about...I love it and I love these guys...Dr Hook was my favorite and I still love hearing them sing...the best ever 🔥💗
I’m 40 year old and been listening to this band all my life thanks to my parents 😊👍🏻🏴
What a crazy bunch but they sure could sing and never missed a beat. Today they would be censored for this one and Ray could sure play the part. RIP Ray.
I am very sure there was gay straight bi ,curious ,black ,red ,white ,brown in the audiance an everyone just havein a gtreat time ,maybe were to serious now ,or not
@@allinsondixon8224 All that and a few more, Allinson. A lot of folks these days would have a seizure if they were to listen to these guys and the likes of Frank Zappa. Geeze, some off 'em even get triggered if you get their imaginary pronoun wrong. Gawd help anyone who doesn't know what imaginary gender they are for that day.
Man RUclips randomly played this.. I remember my mother driving me to school playing a Dr. Hook 8 Track & of course this.. Killer song from back in the day
Absolutely love this crazily brilliant or brilliantly crazy song. Great showmanship. What's not to love😂
These guys were in a movie Paint Your Wagon. There's a scene where a band is playing and they are the band. "Hand Me Down That Can of Beans" was the song.
Man, it was a different world.
1974, These guys were my role models when l was in my teens!!! (Right, my poor parents.)
Love dr.hook! Named my cat dr.hook he sadly passed in October but i called him hook every day!
One of those very underrated bands
It's just lovely it's a whole jamm every time they play
The best Rock and Roll band ever. HOFA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would give up everything to have seen this great band live.
they were crazy on stage ... it was a great show. I only saw them live once but they're unforgettable!
Awe the good ole days, when anything goes✌️
What changed?
@@brianjohnson6053 EVERYTHING ✌️
Stoned, they are, but excellent group. Love their music, always will.
I'm so in love with Billy God i love him xoxoxo❤
Remembered those days. Great music, great drugs. Back then, everyone was exploring music or anything that could get them high. That didn't come from China or a cartel, all home grown. After 50 years I'm still smiling.
That time has passed, but at least you guys had it. My country was building communism at that time.
Great good ol' boy music!
No autotune BS. Shmacktastic!!
I have no idea how me and my coworker got on this topic but she started blasting it outside one day and I had to show my husband! He said he likes dr hook but didn’t know this song existed. We all learn something new every day 😂😂
Amo questo gruppo! Sono cosi pazzamente adorabili.. 😊🤗🥰😍😘💘❤️💋💋💋💯💯💯
Dr
Playin it at a funeral tommorrow awesome
Seen these guys at holiday beach outside Douglas Georgia in the 70s what a great time. Everyone there for the weekend was exactly where they belonged.
I always loved this band great energy. Great songs . My son was a toddler and sang sexy eyes to me. Precious memories.
The first time I heard this, it cracked me up. It still does.
Gotta give credit to Shel for the lyrics.
👀🇨🇦 Too bad if some people are offended, different era, don't like the song don't listen. Can't change history. All in fun.❤❤❤❤this era ,greatful to have grown-up in this era ❤❤😊
Me too! 71 here
Very talented band totally underrated will always love these guys !
Hell I have to tell you if we had the internet back then I'd have gone viral for sure. I had very young parents who were hip and hippies so I knew dr hook well. In fact they used to let me stay up when they had parties, the adults would get stoned & 3 yr old me would get sugar high, lol. They'd plop me on the coffee table and I'd belt this song out at the top of my lungs. this and Queen of the Silver Dollar (which, to this day, I claim as my theme song). Good times.
Love these guys, they always put you in the mood for whatever you are in the mood for.
Dennis got a helluva voice.
This is my favorite performance of this song!! Love it!! Love them!!❤️❤️❤️
Nobody is as excellent as this band I have listened to them since I was 14,(showing my age) still listening!
Dennis and Ray were the Lennon and McCartney of high as F music...awesome!
I saw these guys a few times in the late 60’s.
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️what a show,,.That's such talent,&having such great fun.Thats most likely the secret,,Don't take yourself seriously Just have a blimey good time doing something you love..♥️♥️♥️♥️
I have been to some of them party's back in the 70/80's 😖😂
these guys were just absolutely party til you puke crazy great fun! the fragile, safe space kids would never understand how to enjoy this and all the other magic this band made! rock on brothers and sisters!
It was my song at my wedding our first dance❤
Saw them in Wayne Michigan at the theater, so many years ago.💋
I'm losing my damn mind🤣😂. This is priceless. Shear genius!!!!
This song is the epitome of the 70’s. ❤
And what the elites get up to.
Great fun, wow, this is what life ought to be.
My 75 year old mother wants this song played at her wake.🤦🏼♀️
So does this 70 year old! I'd even like the video shown, but don't think hubs would allow either one,which is fine with me cause I'd be off somewhere rapping with Ray.
ME TOO 🎉
Mama just passed last Saturday and this was on her list of music as well. She was 81.
@@jahnecarbajal5957 🌷🌷
Can I be at your wake please
Ol skool.freak out the 2023.. merry Christmas
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Heard this on there gold album.. omg haha never be allowed these days
Shel Silverstein. Used to have this album. Haven't heard this is in ages.
So fucking far before their time! Thank you!!!
Best song ever made hands down.
My type of party,heed la haw from Scotland's biggest fan
Temuco Chile excelentes sin palabras Dr. Hook
I love that the acid was kicking in .
They were funny hippies and they had fun while singing 🎶 😅
One of my favorite love songs.
Best Dr. Song ever!
El talentoso Ray en sus mejores tiempos.
Freakin Awesome 👏
Totally politically incorrect ..... and bloody brilliant.
I think it is actually totally politically correct. That’s the beauty of the song. Anything is ok. They done it as a kinda joke but these days everything is acceptable.
@@thomasdbrady3696as it should be, freedom baby!
🇨🇦 loves Dr Hook lolo
Saw them in London years ago.think it was at the round house trouble broke out in the crowd and sawyer came off the stage waded in and sorted it
Absolutely brilliant up to a few years ago locarriere was doing this own show just him a guitar all the songs and lots of anecdotes.
He was a regular at the stables in Wavendon the Dankworths theatre.
Milton Keynes
There were clubs like this 40 years ago in the West Village, NYC. Totally different age, where the attitude was 'Different Strokes for different folks,' meaning live and let live.
You used to need a ticket to the ball. Now we live in it.
Love this song. It's a little stupid but i love it and know it by heart.
i love this guy ddf all my heart. they are there best i now from my teenage yere
Bellissimo video! Ma quanto era adorabile il nostro pirata... 😍😍😂😂😇😇😇😇😇💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
Vaene dr....Pole enam väärakaid.Kõik on saanud normaalseteks!Vähemalt euroliidus küll...
I loved Ray... would love to have that hat.
How was this not a Top 10 hit? :-)
OMG, just had my youth from the 70's and early 80's flash before my eyes. Memorized and quoted this daily in high school in Vancouver, BC.
However, thought the lyric was "Pass that roach please...and poor the wine...I'll kiss yours if you kiss mine". Must have toned it down for this performance.
To paraphrase When Harry Met Sally"...I'll have whatever they're having. LOL
I like this song
Lovin it!!!
Inpolitically Correct and damn proud of it!!!
🥀Beautiful🥀Farrrr Outttt! Oh yeah I remember that! Thanks for posting this video it's priceless and unbelievable 🥀😲
Necros looking for dead ones… what a lyric
Thank Shel for that
Sadly it’s not just a lyric, the elites and famous people get up to this type of stuff, that’s how they get their kicks
I want to party with the Dr and his Medicine Show.🤘🏻🍄🌼😆
Best song EVER
Hello. I hope this day finds you well. I just wandered in here after listening to the Shel Silverstein version while digging through stuff I taped from Dr. Demento, back in the '70s and '80s.
Hi Tim, So nice of you to pop in here and enjoy both Shel and Dr Hook. Fint etternavn du har, jeg har det samme :)
Love!!
First heard this in a ratty basement bar in Berlin
Five stars for you!
saw they twice atlanta ga in 80
I been saying these guys had more fun then any band.
Awesome
Ultimate Halloween song when everyone got along
Only in Danish television :)
Just watching the state of the union....
No idea why this seems so apt at this point...
Grab a dance partner !!!
I'm 62 and have always loved this band! There's so many older songs that would not be accepted today, but, we have to accept the junk from rappers and hoes today...not gonna do it!
R.I.P Leon Russel.