DINK YOU IN THE FACE
Written & Produced by Andras Jones
Andras Jones – Vocals, Guitars. Keyboards, Percussion
Josiah Bailey – Bass Guitar
Ed Breckenfeld – Drums
Engineered by Josiah Bailey
Mixed by Fernando Perdomo
Mastered by JJ Golden
LYRICS:
If there’s a chicken in your kitchen
Or just some toilet-dwellin’ fool
You feel your slammer-jammer itchin
Then you remember
The golden rule
Dink ’em in the face, motherfucker
Dink ’em in the face
You got to
Dink ’em in the face, motherfucker
Dink ’em in the face
If there’s a chick out of position
Or a dude who can’t return
You feel your slammer-jammer itchin
You gotta burn
You gotta burn as you
Dink ’em in the face, motherfucker
Dink ’em in the face
You got to
Dink ’em in the face, motherfucker
Dink ’em in the face
Dink ’em in the face yeah
Like a can of mace yeah
Totally disgraced because your points have been erase
Taste that pickle taste
As I dink you in the face
As I dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink you in the
Motherfuckin’ face
Dink you in the face – Dink you in the face
Dink you in the face – Dink you in the face
Dink you in the face – Dink you in the face
Dink you in the face – Dink you in the face
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Dink is a pickleball term referring to tapping the ball softly.
I wrote this song over a year ago. Been waiting for just the right moment to share it with you. Now is that time. This is the big dumb pickleball anthem the world of pickleball has been missing. You’re welcome.
The friends I play pickleball with were hanging out one night around a backyard campfire and my friend, the actor Amos Glick, drunkenly improvised a song that included many repetitions of the line, “I’m gonna dink you in the motherfucking face”.
I thought it was funny and urged Amos to write the song. He had no memory of it. For several months I kept bugging him to write the song. He kept refusing to do so, and one night I decided to take matters into my own hands. I used Dan Bern’s “Rock And Roll Will Be Done To You” as a jumpoing off point and a post-rock pickle-classic was born.
A few months later, at the invitation of my old friend Ralph Covert, I was in Chicago staying at his Waterdog Studio. He introduced me to Ed Breckenfeld who played drums on the track. Josiah Bailey who was then new to Waterdog played the bass on the track. Over the next couple of days, I played and sang everything else…vocals, guitars, keyboards & percussion. Wait, that’s not entirely true. Ralph Covert sang a harmony on the line “golden rule”.
I felt pretty lucky that “pickleballer” and “motherfucker” have the same number of syllables. This allowed me to make a radio clean version of the song that kept the integrity of the lyric. I still think the motherfucker version is superior but I could be wrong. It’s nice to have options.
You may have heard that there is an upcoming major motion picture produced by Ben Stiller called “The Dink”. I’m sure some people will think the film inspired the song but that is not the case. Nor do I imagine the film was inspired by my song. The fact is, we are living in the dawning of the age of the dink and both Mr. Stiller and I are probably channeling this zeitgeist.