Banjo

Banjo, also known by the name Let's Go Moon Some Cars is the first track on Banjo Story and Fresh Meat + Old Slabs.

Description
The song is generally about teenage antics, like stealing beer, setting stuff on fire, you know, things that teens do for fun, while Beck tries to rock the banjo. This is one of Beck's earliest songs, as it's the first song on his first ever release. 4 or 5 years later, he included the song again on Fresh Meat + Old Slabs, a gift for his mother. That version starts off with a sample about making music, and is played on the guitar instead of the banjo, with some percussion added.

"Let's Go Moon Some Cars" is the more common title and the title on Fresh Meat, but the official title and title on Banjo Story is simply "Banjo."

Banjo Story version
Yee-haw!

Let's go moon some cars

I said let's go moon some cars

Let's go moon some cars, my friend

Let's go moon some cars

(aw man)

Let's go steal some beer

I said let's go steal some beer

Yeah, gotta steal some beer, my friend

Yeah, let's go steal some beer

Let's go set something on fire

I said let's go set something on fire

Yeah, let's go set something on fire, my friend

Yeah, let's go set something on fire

Let's go shoot some pigs

Oh yeah, let's go shoot some pigs

Yeah, let's go shoot some pigs, my friend

Ah let's go shoot some pigs

Fresh Meat + Old Slabs version
''lay us a tune on an unbroken spinet! And let the bells ring. Let the bells ring! Play music now. Play us a tune on an unbroken spinet. Do not strike music from old broken keys. Do not make ghosts with faded tinklings on the yellowed board. But play us a tune on an unbroken spinet!''

Let's go moon some cars

Yeah, let's go moon some cars

Yeah, let's go moon some cars, my friend

Yeah, let's go moon some cars

Let's go steal some beer

Yeah, let's go steal some beer

Yeah, let's go steal some beer, my friend

Now, let's go steal some beer, whoo!

Let's go set something on fire

Yeah, let's go set something on fire!

Let's go set something on fire, my friend

Let's go set something on fire

Let's go shoot some pigs

Yeah, let's go shoot some pigs

Let's go shoot some pigs, my friend

Let's go shoot some pigs

Let's go steal some beer

Yeah, let's go steal some beer

Let's go steal some beer, my friend

Let's go steal some beer

Ooooh! Yee-haw!

(screaming)