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Originally Posted by PoP
 A bird? A whore? Doesn't seem a person's name, at least not a common one.
Would have like to find a more definitive reference, but
Zappa is enigmatic, and since La Chunga (with a La) was a bohemian and Zappa's record artwork features a bohemian camp illustration, that will have to do: you win 
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Yeah, I checked the lyrics before posting and it read like a dialog. The only other reference that I could find to "Chunga's revenge" was conjecture that it might be a term for "weariness" but even that author seemed unsure. So I went on the basis of the dialog being, at worst, the personification of weariness.
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For the front cover, Calvin Schenkel designed a spoof on cheesy horror-movie ads, featuring cartoony wording and a photo that turned out not to be Frank screaming, as at first glance, but yawning (“Chunga’s Revenge” therefore being revealed as a funny Zappa term for weariness).
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Zappa
was an interesting guy!