Watermelon In Easter Hay

This guitar solo runs to 9 minutes, 9 seconds, and is the penultimate track on this somewhat off-beat concept album, which was composed and arranged in its entirety by Zappa. There are no lyrics as such but there is a spoken introduction, which turns profane. The song demonstrates Zappa's talents as a composer and a guitarist.

Nick Feldman of Wang Chung is a big fan of this song, calling it "one of Zappa's instrumental masterpieces." "It has a melancholy, yearning quality rather unusual in much of his other work," Feldman told Songfacts. "It is deceptively simple although of course the time signatures are not straightforward and his guitar playing is more direct but very atmospheric and even restrained."