Paint drop drip
On a Pollock trip
Splat gloss or matt
Lay the canvas flat

Clement Greenberg comes along
You must drip it
Before the paint is out too long
You must drip it
When the painting’s looking wrong
You must drip it

Now drip it
Concentrate
Prime it up
Create
Pour it on
Add some red
Try to perfect it
It’s in the Tate
So drip it
Drip it good

When a painting’s on the ground
You must drip it
You can hang it upside down
If you drip it
Action painting splash
When you drip it

I say drip it
Drip it good

*Recorded and released in 2003 as a CD single and DVD on the occasion of Danius Kesminas’ exhibition Never Mind the Pollocks at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the purchase of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles by The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1973

**Jackson Pollock’s narration from the film Pollock Painting directed by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg, 1951

***Harry M.Miller interviewed in the film Poles Apart: The Blue Poles Controversy directed by Judy Rymer, 2001

Originally recorded by Devo as Whip It
Published by Warner Bros.