The Black Ice Cream Song

The Black Ice Cream Song
Album	Zopilote Machine
Released	1994
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:03
Previous Track	"Alpha Sun Hat"
Next Track	"Sinaloan Milk Snake Song"

The Black Ice Cream Song is the fourth song on the album Zopilote Machine.

Lyrics

And the heat came down
And the heat came down
I knew I was living in a long, long dream
when you fed me the black ice cream

And the heat rose up
And the heat rose up
I heard the loud loud buzzing of our son's go-kart
And the ice cream was blacker than the devil's heart
It was August the 19th, 1957
I fixed my eyes on you, fixed my eyes on you

Trivia

• The title of the song is "The Black Ice Cream Song", as seen on the label of the 2005 vinyl and CD re-releases of the album from 3 Beads of Sweat [1].

  

  Zopilote Machine inside liner notes showing the title of this song as "The Black Ice Cream Song"

  The song has occasionally been incorrectly referred to as "That Black Ice Cream Song", perhaps due to incorrect metadata appearing on YouTube, Spotify, last.fm, and Tidal.

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 1994-xx-xx - Stache's - Columbus, OH
• 1994-08-18 - Under ACME - New York, NY
• 1994-08-22 - The Middle East - Cambridge, MA
• 1994-08-23 - Baystate - Northampton, MA
• 1996-08-10 - Gabe's - Iowa City, IA
• 1997-06-26 - The Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL
• 1999-07-09 - Starfish Room - Vancouver, British Columbia
• 2002-03-10 - The Green Room - Iowa City, IA