The Hard Taco Project
is a Simple Concept

I will write and record one song a month,
every month, until I am dead



I have been doing this since
1993 and so far my health is good.

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Les Caverns Perigord

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From "Jupiter the Balloon Horse"




Je vais chercher mon amour
Dans les Cavernes Perigord
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Ce parfum est familier...
Personne ne trouvera votre corps
Votre odeur est comme ma soeur
Je mutilerai votre coeur

Qu'est-ce que c'est
Ce parfum est familier...
Personne ne trouvera votre corps
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Ce parfum est familier...
Personne ne trouvera votre corps

Je vais chercher mon amour
Dans les Cavernes Perigord
Votre odeur est comme ma soeur
Je mutilerai votre coeur

Qu'est-ce que c'est
Ce parfum est familier...
Personne ne trouvera votre corps

Qu'est-ce que c'est
Ce parfum est familier...
Personne ne trouvera votre corps


(Lauren London - vocals
Thellea Leveque - flute
Darin Zahuranec - french horn, trumpet, saxophone)

Copyright 2007 Zach London


Lemons and Pornography

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From "The Seventh Sea"

Lemons and pornography
Lemons and pornography
All that we need at sea
Is lemons and pornography

Hunger's cry we ignore
We live off nails, scabs and debris
Then we sail back to shore
For lemons and pornography

Had to raid another pirate ship
Since they passed that damn embargo
So we broke their skegs
And their peglegs
And spilled beer on their cargo

Oh, torture the crew
Keelhaul a parrot or two
The bilge of the "Jolly"'s
Our cracker for Polly to chew

Lemons and pornography
Lemons and pornography
Oh how sweet life can be
With lemons and pornography

We can get more booty free
If we raid the coast of Barbary
And foreign ports are duty free
For Lemons and pornography

We heard a lot of dames
Really dig our names
So we'll snag a few if they're curvy
Sadly they never last
When we make them fast
Soon they're all pussed up with scurvy

Oh they'll feel our wrath
If they're caught taking a bath
We'll push 'em off the plank
With the cannons point blank in their path.

Lemons and pornography
Lemons and pornography
Wait beneath my Christmas tree
For lemons and pornography

You're sure inconsiderate
Giving us treasure maps marked with a key
Cuz we're all illiterate
Sing "lemons and pornography!"

Isn't life free when your passion's to plunder
Could it just be fate that your new eyepatch works great
As you tie a large metal weight
To the leg of your first mate
And shout "PIECES OF EIGHT!"
As you push the fool under
Well, no wonder we say...

Lemons and pornography
Lemons and pornography
We can brew our herbal tea
With lemons and pornagraphy

Lemons and pornography
Lemons and pornography
Lemons and... lemons and...
More lemons and pornography!

Aye! Tallow the jib! Swarth the main sheet!
Grout the crow's nest! Cockswain the bilgewater!
Ben bow the sea chest! Hurly Burly!
Give me some time to blow the man down.

Ebb the tide! Smack me mother!
Festoon yon fore and aft! Buckle me cockles!
Festoon Yan's barnacle! Tickle me pickle!
Give me some time to blow the man down!
(Ar, I don't know what I'm doin')

Lemons and pornography...


(Jon Greenlee - drums, bass, lead guitar
Maury Loeb - co-author, additional vocals)

Copyright 1994 Zach London

Lay Down Paul Revere

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From "Jupiter the Balloon Horse"




Cruisin down the street in my 8 4
It's a burgundy Escort with a mismatched door
She's my rattletrap horse and I'm ready to dismount
I'm looking for love and I want a AAA discount
Roll into the club and I'm jocking
Want a present to stuff in my stocking

And the ladies know it's me before I lower my Raybans
Cause right before I came I went to town with the spray cans
You can't overdo it when it comes to Brut
(As if I need a cherry picker for the low hangin fruit)

Cause it's one if by land, two if by sea
And it's fire in the sky when I say three
One if by land, two if by sea
And it's fire in the sky when I say

Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Lay down Paul Revere

Cause when the British come
It's gonna be in an unidentified flying O
Chief executive O
My Significant O

So I'm making a bee line for one of the meat rack ghettos
Ive given up counting the leather stilettos
And the jump things in the Jordache zoo
Wear the hoop earrings you could shove your through

Holy six inch bangs!
Was you daddy a peacock
You can't see the top without a magical bean stalk
You 're lookin sharp
At least on top
Like you could cut crop circles with that Aqua-Net mop

(Stop that trash)
But the B R Y L, well that's liquid cash
A little dab in the weave, and a dab in the stache
And you better believe it's worth the rash

Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Don't touch the hair
Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Don't touch the dial
Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Get on your back, son
Lay down Paul Revere

Cause when the British come
It's gonna be in an unidentified flying O
Gran Turismo O
That's my Modus O
Did you notice No.

Breathe This scene is so lame, man
I need a new game plan
I'm counting sheep faster than Rainman
Ya know what I'm sayin man
Just take a photo and send me a copy
I'm gonna go go back to the jalopy
Back it up like a floppy
The radios busted so I gotta beat box
For the next three blocks
Twelve steps in the road to detox
But I don't want to wear out my Reboks
So I hit the sauce, and I hit the boss
And I got laid off, but that's the trade off
Shouldve waited til the car was all paid off
Cause little Napoleons
Got all the simoleans
He's got no soul, he's mechanical
He's manic, mean, and tyrannical
Makes you panic if you 're not puritanical
But I'm throwing off these manacles
My shampoos organic and full of botanicals
So pardon me if I seem skeptical
You can deposit that in the proper receptacle

Come on, silver man
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Get on your back
It's almost midnight, son

Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
April of 75
Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Hardly a man is now alive
Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Don't touch the hair
Lay down Paul Revere

Cause when the British come
It's gonna be in an unidentified flying O
From Electric Light O
To Karen O
From the House O
To the Health Maintenance O
I met Terrell O
At the post O
He had body O
I said time O
Bnai Brith Youth Os
Initial Public O
Was a knock O
Like Jackie O
Or like nitrous O
So don't fight this, no
Just lay down, Joe

Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down
Lay down Paul Revere
Lay down, lay down


(Lauren London - additional vocals
Russell Schwartz - additional vocals)


Copyright 2007 Zach London

LaFollete High Fight Song

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From "Chicken"

We shall fight for the brown and the gray
For our name, we shall fight when we play
Let your banners fly
For LaFollette High
And the mighty Tidal Wave!

We excel, we shall yell it aloud!
We excel, we are well-endowed
On the courts, on the fields
Playing sports, do we yield
No, no
Rah. rah,
Rah, No!
We are proud!

We shall sing for home of the
Strong and brave
Fight for LaFollette High Tidal Waves!


(Lauren London - additional vocals)

Copyright 1999 Zach London

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