Zappa wrote the song to parody his experiences playing with drunken bar bands in the early 1960s. The song combines a silly love song lyric with an equally cliched melody. The members of The Mothers perform the song in a very sloppy way on purpose. Many sound effects were creatively added to the recording to give it an authentic nightclub feel. At the end of the recording lead vocalist Ray Collins says good night to the audience and tells them to "drink it up, folks." It's implied that the nightclub crowd has devolved into some kind of mass altercation by the end of the song; shouts and cries of pain are heard in the background as the song winds up.