Frank Zappa

Hungry Freaks, Daddy


Mr. america, walk on by your schools that do not teach
Mr. america, walk on by the minds that won't be reached
Mr. america try to hide the emptiness that's you inside
But once you find that the way you lied
And all the corny tricks you tried
Will not forestall the rising tide of hungry freaks daddy!

They won't go on four no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren't afraid to say what's on their minds
The left behinds of the great society

Hungry freaks, daddy!

Mr. america, walk on by your supermarket dream
Mr. america, walk on by the liquor store supreme
Mr. america try to hide the product of your savage pride
The useful minds that it denied
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
You saw their clothes, and then you cried,
"those hungry freaks, daddy!"

They won't go on four no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren't afraid to say what's on their minds
The left behinds of the great society


Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

Who Are the Brain Police?


Aahh ah ahahahaaa, aahh ah ahahahaaa
What will you do if we let you go home,
And the plastic's all melted,
And so is the chrome?
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

Aahh ah ahahahaaa, aahh ah ahahahaaa
What will you do when the label comes off,
And the plastic's all melted,
And the chrome is too soft?

Aaahhh!

Think I'm very tired and I'm going to die
I think I'm going to die, I think I'm going to die
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

Aahh ah ahahahaaa, aahh ah ahahahaaa
What will you do if the people you knew
Were the plastic that melted,
And the chromium too?
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

Motherly Love


Motherly love
Motherly love
Forget about
The brotherly and other-ly love
Motherly love
Is just the thing for you
You know your mothers' gonna love ya
Till ya don't know what to do

The mothers got love
That'll drive ya mad
They're ravin' 'bout the way we do
No need to feel lonely...
No need to feel sad,
If we ever get a hold on you
What you need is...

Motherly love
(come on get it now)
Motherly love
Forget about
The brotherly and other-ly love
Motherly love
Is just the thing for you
You know your mothers' gonna love ya
Till ya don't know what to do

Nature's been good
To this here band
Don't ever think we're shy
Send us up some little groupies

And we'll take their hands

And rock 'em till they sweat and cry
What you need is...

Motherly love
(get it now)
Motherly love
Forget about
The brotherly and other-ly love
Motherly love
Is just the thing for you
You know your mothers' gonna love ya
Till ya don't know what to do
We can love ya
Till ya have a heart attack
You'd best believe that's true
We'll bite your neck
And scratch your back
Till you don't know what to do
What you need is...

Motherly love
Motherly love
Forget about
The brotherly and other-ly love
Motherly love
Is just the thing for you
You know your mothers' gonna love ya
Till ya don't know what to do

You know I've got a little motherly love for you baby
You know I've got a little motherly love for you honey
You know it doesn't bother me at all
That you're only 18 years old
'cause I got a little motherly love for you baby
Pow pow pow pow

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

How Could I Be Such a Fool?


When I won your love, I was very glad
Every happiness in the world belonged to me
Then our love was lost and you went away
Now I shed my tears in lonely misery

I know now that you never ever really loved me
It hurts me now to think you never ever really cared
I sit and I ask myself a thousand times to try and find
What really happened to the love that we shared

How could I be such a fool
How could I believe all those lies you told me
How could I be taken in by your sweet face
You spoiled out love, your ruined my life
I'm so tore down, I'm a terrible disgrace

But there will come a time and you'll regret the way
You treated me as if I was a fool and didn't know
The many times you lied about your love for me
Someone else is going to know that your love is just a show

How could I be, be such a fool
How could I be, be such a fool
How could I be, be such a fool
How could I be, be such a fool
How could I be, be such a fool
How could I be, be such a fool

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

Wowie Zowie


Wowie zowie
Your love's a treat
Wowie zowie
You can't be beat
Wowie zowie, baby
You're so neat
I don't even care
If you shave your legs
Wowie zowie, baby
You're so fine
Wowie zowie, baby
Please be mine
Wowie zowie
Up and down my spine
I don't even care
If you brush your teeth

I dream of you each mornin'
I dream of you each night
Just the other day I got so shook up
I dreamed of you in the afternoon

Baum didi, baum didi, baum didi,
Baum didi, baum didi, baum didi

I dream of you each mornin'
I dream of you each night
Just the other day I got so shook up
I had a flash in the afternoon

Wowie zowie, baby
Love me do
Wowie zowie
And I'll love you too
Wowie zowie, baby
I'll be true
I don't even care
If your dad's the heat

Wowie zowie
Wowie
Wowie zowie
Wowie
Wowie zowie
Wowie
Wowie zowie
(etc.)

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

You Didn't Try to Call Me


You didn't try to call me, why didn't you try?
I'm so lonely
No matter who I take home, I keep calling your name
And you, (I need you so bad) you're the one babe

Tell me, tell me who's lovin' you now
'cause it worried my mind and I can't sleep at all
I stayed home on friday just to wait for your call
And you didn't try, you didn't try, you didn't try
You didn't try to call me

Why didn't you try, I'm so lonely

No metter who I take home, I keep calling your name
And you, (I need you so bad) you're the one babe

Tell me, tell me who's lovin' you now
'cause it worries my mind and I can't sleep at all
I stayed home on friday just to wait for your call

I can't say what's wrong or what's right
All you've gotta do is call me babe

You make me feel so excited girl
I got so hung up on you from the moment that we met
That no matter how I try, I can't keep the tears
From running down my face
I'm all alone at my place

You didn't try to call me
You didn't try to call me
You didn't try to call me
You didn't try to call me

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

Any Way the Wind Blows


Anyway the wind blows is fine with me
Anyway the wind blows, it don't matter to me
'cause I'm thru with the fussin' and fightin' with you
I went out and found a woman who is gonna be true

She makes me oh so happy now, I'm never ever blue

Anyway the wind blows is fine with me
Anyway the wind blows it don't matter to me
'cause she treats me like she loves me
And she never makes me cry
I'm gonna stick with her till the day I die
She's not like your baby, she would never ever lie
Anyway the wind blows, is fine with me
Anyway the wind blows, it don't matter to me
Now I'm going to go away and leave you standin' at the door
I'll tell you this baby, I won't be back any more
'cause you don't even know what love is for
Anyway the wind blows, anyway the wind blows
Anyway the wind blows, anyway the wind blows

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here


You're probably wondering
Why I'm here
And so am i
So am i
Just as much as you wonder
'bout me bein' in this place
Yeah!
That's just how much I marvel
At the lameness on your face
You rise each day the same old way
And join your friends out on the street
Spray your hair
And think you're neat
I think your life is incomplete
But maybe that's not for me to say
They only pay me here to play

I wanna hear caravan with a drum solo

You're probably wondering
Why I'm here
And so am i
So am i

Just as much as you wonder
'bout me starin' back at you
Yeah!
That's just how much I question
The corny things you do

You paint your face and then you chase
To meet the gang where the action is
Stomp all night
And drink your fizz
Roll your car and say "gee whiz!"
You tore a big hole in your convertible top
What will you tell your mom and pop?

Mam, I tore a big hole in the convertible

You're probably wondering
Why I'm here
And so am i
So am i

Just as much as you wonder
If I mean just what I say
Yeah!
That's just how much I question
The social games you play

You told your mom you're stoked on tom
And went for a cruise in freddie's car
Tommy's asking
Where you are
You boogied all night in a cheesy bar
Plastic boots and plastic hat
And you think you know where it's at?
Yeah!

You're probably wondering
Why I'm here
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

Trouble Every Day


Well I'm about to get up sick
From watchin my t.v.
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friend
Is anybody's guess
So I'm watching and I'm waiting
Hopin' for the best
Even think I go to praying
Every time I hear them sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' everyday
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Wednesday I watched the riot
I've seen the cops out on the street
Watch them throwing rocks and stuff and choking in the heat
Listen to reports
About the whiskey passin' round
Seen the smoke and fire
And the market burnin' down
Watched while everybody on his street would take a turn
They stomp and smash and bash and crash and slash and bust 'n burn
And I'm watching and I'm waitin hopin' for the best
Even think I go to prayin'
Every time I hear em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' everyday

You can cool it
You can heat it
Cause baby I don't need it
Take your t.v. tube and eat it
And all that phony stuff on sports
And all those unconfirmed reports

You know I watch that rotten box

Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so and so
And further they assert
That any show they litter up
They bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They will be the first to tell
Cause the boys they got downtown
Working hard and doin swell
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the streets
They say that no one blams it faster
Their coverage can't be beat
And if another woman driver
Gets machine gunned from her seat
They'll send some joker with a brownie
And youll see it all complete

So I'm watching and I'm waiting
Hopin for the best
Even think I go to praying
Every time I hear them saying
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' everyday
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Well I've seen the fires burnin'
And the local people turnin'
All the merchants and the shops
Who use to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watch the mob just turn and bite em
And they say it serve them right
Because a few of them are white
And it's the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yell and you can understand me
And all that other crap they hand me
In the papers and t.v.
And all that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more everyday
These time of year some asshole say
He wants to go and do you in
Cause the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
No matter if it's black or white
Because he's out for blood tonight

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

Help, I'm a Rock


Help I'm a rock, help I'm a rock, help I'm a rock!
Ahahahahahahaaa
Help I'm a rock, help I'm a rock, help I'm a rock!
Somebody, please, please!
Help I'm a rock, help I'm a rock...
Wow man, it's a drag being a rock
Help I'm a rock...
I wish I was anything but a rock
Heck, I'd even like to be a policeman
Hey, you know what, you know maybe if I practised, you know
Maybe if I passed my driving test
I could get a gig drivin' that bus and pick some freaks up
In front of ben franks, right!

Help I'm a cop, help I'm a cop, help I'm a cop!
(help I'm a rock...), help I'm a cop, help I'm a cop!
It's a drag being a cop, I think I'd rather be the mayor
Always wondered what I was gonna be when I grew up, you know
Always wondered whether or not, whether or not I could make it,
You know, in society, because,
You know, it's a drag when you're rejected
So I tore the cover off a book of matches and I sent in
And I got this letter back that said, uhu, aha

It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times, hmmmmmmmm
And I'm telling you
It can't happen here
Oh darling, it's important that you believe me
(bop bop bop bop)
That it can't happen here

Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere in kansas...
Kansas kansas tototototodo
Kansas kansas tototototodo
Kansas kansas
Who could imagine that they would freak out in minnesota...
Mimimimimimimi minnesota, minnesota, minnesota
Who could imagine...

Who could imagine
That they would freak out in washington, d.c.
D.c. d.c. d.c. d.c. d.c.
It can't happen here
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
It can't happen here
It can't happen here

Everybody's safe and it can't happen here

No freaks for us
It can't happen here
Everybody's clean and it can't happen here
No, no, it won't happen here
I'm telling you it can't
It won't happen here
(bop bop didi bop didi bop bop bop)
Plastic folks, you know
It won't happen here
You're safe, mama
You're safe, baby
You just cook a tv dinner
And you make it
(bop bop bop)
No no no no
Oh, we're gonna get a tv dinner and cook it up
Go get a tv dinner and cook it up
Cook it up
Oh, and it won't happen here
(no no no no no no no no no no no
Man you guys are really safe
Everything's cool).
Who could imagine
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs!

I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool.
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But...

Suzie...
Yes yes yes--i've always felt that
Yes I agree man, it really makes it...yeah...
It's a real thing, man
And it really makes it
(makes it)

Suzie, you just got to town,
And we've been, we've been very interested
In your development.
Forget it!
Hmmmmmmmmm
(it can't happen here)

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

It Can't Happen Here


It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times, hmmmmmmmm

And I'm telling you
It can't happen here
Oh darling, it's important that you believe me
(bop bop bop bop)
That it can't happen here

Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere in kansas...
Kansas kansas tototototodo
Kansas kansas tototototodo
Kansas kansas
Who could imagine that they would freak out in minnesota...
Mimimimimimimi minnesota, minnesota, minnesota
Who could imagine...

Who could imagine
That they would freak out in washington, d.c.
D.c. d.c. d.c. d.c. d.c.
It can't happen here
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
It can't happen here
It can't happen here
Everybody's safe and it can't happen here
No freaks for us
It can't happen here
Everybody's clean and it can't happen here
No, no, it won't happen here
I'm telling you it can't
It won't happen here
(bop bop didi bop didi bop bop bop)
Plastic folks, you know
It won't happen here
You're safe, mama
You're safe, baby
You just cook a tv dinner
And you make it
(bop bop bop)

No no no no
Oh, we're gonna get a tv dinner and cook it up
Go get a tv dinner and cook it up
Cook it up
Oh, and it won't happen here
(no no no no no no no no no no no
Man you guys are really safe
Everything's cool).
Who could imagine
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool.

And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But...

Suzie...
Yes yes yes--i've always felt that
Yes I agree man, it really makes it...yeah...
It's a real thing, man
And it really makes it
(makes it)

Suzie, you just got to town,
And we've been, we've been very interested
In your development,
Since you first took the shots.
Forget it!
Hmmmmmmmmm
(it can't happen here)
(can't happen here)
(can't happen here)

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet


Suzy?
Yes
Suzy creamcheese?
Yes
This is the voice of your conscience baby, uh I just want to
Check one thing out with you, do you mind dear?
What?
Suzy creamcheese, honey, what's got into you?
Aaaaaaaah, hmmmmmmmm, ahahahah, oo-oo-oo
Cream...

Aha, oohoo, aha, oohoo...

Creamcheese
What's happening man?
America's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

It really makes it.

Cream-cheese.

Ooo aha, oohoo, aha, oohoo
Hahahahahaha.

A minute man, crazy man, it's happening man, flashing man
Flashing man, flashing man, crazy man,
It really makes it

Flashing man
Aha oohoo, aha oohoo, ...
Creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese,
Creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese,
Creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese, creamcheese,
Creamcheese.

Haha hihi haha hihi. creamcheese, creamcheese...

Did you pick up on that?

Creamcheese...

Frank Zappa - Freak Out! - 1966

Uncle Bernie's Farm


Ray collins (vocals)
Jimmy carl black (drums)
Billy mundi (drums)
Roy estrada (bass)
Don preston (keyboards)
Bunk gardner (woodwinds)
Motorhead sherwood (soprano, baritone saxophone)

(I'm dreaming...)

There's a bomb to blow yo mommy up,
A bomb for yo daddy too! (ouch!)
A baby doll that burps 'n pees;
A case of airplane glue!
There's a hungry plastic troll,
To scarf yo buddy's arm!
There's a box of ugly plastic things marked:
Uncle bernie's farm

There's a little plastic 'congress'
There's a 'nation' you can buy!
There's a doll that looks like mommy
(she'll do anything but cry) (yes, sir)
There's a doll that looks like daddy
(he's a funny little man...
Push a button 'n ask fo money:
There's a dollar in his hand!) (check his wallet)

We gotta send sanny claus back to de rescue mission!
Christmas don't make it no more!
Don'tcha know that murder an' destruction
Scream de toys in every store! (I think this is sold in new york)

There's a man who runs the country
There's a man who tried to think
And they're all made out of plastic
(when they melt, they start to stink)
There's a book with smiling children,
Nearly dead with christmas joys
And smiling in his office
Is the creep who makes 'the toys'
(they got this car, when it hits the wall, you can see the guy dying
You got little plastic pools of blood
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho (I'm dreaming...)
...intestines...you can see right into his stomach...
There's this other thing, i...
I got bombs, I got rockets, I got a, I got a stillson wrench
And comes with a tape recorder...
I got plastic brass knuckles
With sound effects
We got a '39 chevy...


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

Soft-sell Conclusion


Ray collins (vocals)
Jimmy carl black (drums)
Billy mundi (drums)
Roy estrada (bass)
Don preston (keyboards)
Bunk gardner (woodwinds)
Motorhead sherwood (soprano, baritone saxophone)

A lot of people don't bother about their
Friends in the vegetable kingdom. they
Think: oh, ah, what can I say? what can
A person like myself say to a vegetable?
But the answer is simple, my friends:
Just call, and tell them how you feel
About muffins...pumpkins...wax
Paper...caledonia, mahoganies, elbows
...green things in general...and
Soon, a new rapport...you and your
New little green and yellow buddies,
Grooving together...oh, no! maintaining
Your coolness together! worshipping
Together in the church of your
Choice...(only in america...)

Call any vegetable call it by name
Aw, you gotta call one today
When you get off the train

Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Wow! that the vegetable will respond to you

Oh, no! can you see them responding? the
Pumpkin is breathing hard...h-h-h-h
H-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h - h - hhhhhhhhhhhh!
(what a pumpkin!)



Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

The Duke Regains His Chops


And you'll be my duchess
My duchess of prunes

I'm looking through the prune in june
Reveals your chest I see your lovely beans
And in that magic go-kart I bite your neck
The cheese I have for you, my dear
Is real and very new
(new cheese!)

Prune (pa-da-dah!)
If they are a fresh prune (pa-da-dah!)
Know no cheese
(chunka, chunka cheeky chunka)
(chunka, cheesy, stinky chunka)
And they just lie there
Taller and sickening and it just...i don't know (lo)
And I know, I think
The love I have for you will never end (well, maybe)
And so my love I offer you
A love that is strong, a prune that is true

(this is the exciting part. this is like the supremes
See the way it builds up? feel it? )
(baby, baby, baby, baby)

(my prune is yours, my love
My cheese for you, savings through and through
My baby I do
My baby I do
My baby prunes
My baby prunes
I love you
I love you
O baby prunes
O cheesy fat
O cheesy fat
O cheesy fat)


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

Son of Suzy Creamcheese


Suzy creamcheese, oh, mama, now
What's got into ya?

Suzy you were such a sweetie
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Once you were my one and only
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Blow your mind on too much kool-aid
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Took my stash and left me lonely
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Suzy creamcheese, oh, baby, now
What's got into ya?
Suzy creamcheese, oh, mama, now
What's got into ya?

Got to find my suzy creamcheese
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Think I'll go and start my car
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Really dig her, she's so freaky
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Heard the heat knows where you are
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Suzy creamcheese, oh, baby, now
What's got into ya?
Suzy creamcheese, oh, mama, now
What's got into ya?

Cruised the strip and went to canter's
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Suzy creamcheese, please come home
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Vito said she split for berkeley
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Protest-marching styrofoam
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Suzy creamcheese, oh, baby, now
What's got into ya?
Suzy creamcheese, oh, mama, now
What's got into ya?


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

The Duke of Prunes


A moon beam through the prune in june
Reveals your chest I see your lovely beans
And in that magic go-kart I bite your neck
The cheese I have for you, my dear
Is real and very new
A moon beam through the prune in june
Reveals your chest I see your lovely beans
And in that magic go-kart I bite your neck
The love I have for you, my dear
Is real and very new

Prune! (pa-da-dah!)
If it is a real prune knows no cheese
(cheeky chanky, cheeky chanky)
And stands (oh no!)
Taller or softer than any tree (or bush)
And I know the love I have for you
Will grow and grow and grow, I think
And so my love I offer you
A love that is strong a prune that is true


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?


Why don'tcha do me right?
Why don'tcha do me right?
Why don'tcha do me right?
You got me pulled up tight
Why don'tcha do me right?

You got me beggin' on my knees
You got me beggin' on my knees
You got me beggin' on my knees
Say-in' baby please
Come back to me

You're tryin' to wreck my life
I know you're tryin' to wreck my life
I know you're tryin' to wreck my life
And all I wanted was a wife
I know you're tryin' to wreck my life

Now what you tryin' to do?
Now what you tryin' to do?
Now what you tryin' to do?
I been true to you
Now what you tryin' to do?

Why don'tcha do me right?
Why don'tcha do me right?
Why don'tcha do me right?
You got me pulled up tight
Why don'tcha do me right?

(but baby, I think I love you
But baby, I think I love you)

Why don'tcha do me right?
Why don'tcha do me right?
Why don'tcha do me right?
I wanna boogie yah all night
Why don'tcha do me right?


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

Big Leg Emma


There's a big dilemma
About my big leg emma, uh-huh, oh yeah
There's a big dilemma
About my big leg emma, uh-huh, oh yeah
She was my steady date
Until she put on weight

There's a big dilemma
About my big leg emma, uh-huh, oh yeah
There's a big dilemma
About my big leg emma, uh-huh, oh yeah
She used to knock me out
Until her face broke out

Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma my emma

Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma-ma-ma
Ma-ma my emma

There's a big dilemma
About my big leg emma, uh-huh, oh yeah
There's a big dilemma
About my big leg emma, uh-huh, oh yeah
She used to knock me out
Until her face broke out


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

Status Back Baby


I'm losing status at the high school
I used to think that it was my school
Wah wah wah wah

I was the king of every school activity
But that's no more...
Oh mama, what will come of me?

The other night we painted posters
We played some records by the coasters
Wah wah wah wah
A bunch of pom-pom girls
Looked down their nose at me
They had painted tons of posters, I had painted three
I hear the secret whispers everywhere I go
My school spirit is at an all time low

I'm losing status at the high school
I used to think that it was my school
Wah wah wah wah

Everyone in town knows I'm a handsome football star
I sing and dance and spray my hair and drive a shiny car
I'm friendly and I'm charming I belong to de molay
I'm gonna try like mad to get my status back today
Status back, baby, status back, baby
Status back, baby, status back, baby


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

America Drinks


(one, two, buckle my shoe)
(do-dos, and yips yips, assorted improv)

I tired to find how my heart could be so blind,
(wanna buy some penzo? )
Dear
How could I be fooled just like the rest
You came on strong with your
Fast car and your class ring
Sad eyes and your ... ...
I fell for the whole thing
I don't regret for having met
Up with a girl who breaks hearts
Like they were nothing at all (here's one for mother)
I've done it too
Now I know just what it feels like


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

America Drinks Goes Home



I tired to find how my heart could be so blind,
Dear
How could I be fooled just like the rest
You came on strong with your
Fast car and your class ring
Sad eyes and your ... ...
I fell for the whole thing
I don't regret for having met
Up with a girl who breaks hearts
Like they were nothing at all
I've done it too
Now I know just what it feels like
And just like I said I have no regrets

Well it's about time to close...
I hope you've had as much fun as we have!
Don't forget the jam session sunday!...
Mandy tension will be by, playing his xylophone troupe!
It'll be a lot of fun!
Monday night is the dance contest night...
Twist contest!...
We give away ah...
Peanut butter and jelly!...
There'll be sandwiches for all of you...
I hope we've played your requests...
The songs you like to hear...
Last call for alcohol!...
Drink it up folks...
Wonderful!...
Nice to see you bob, how's it going?
How's your kids? ...
Wonderful!...
Nice to see you, yes...
Oh, bill bailey? ...
Ah we'll get to that to- morrow night...
Caravan with a drum solo? ...
Right!...
We'll do that!...
Wonderful!...
Nice to see you again!...
Yeah!...la, la, la...
Down at the pompadour a-go-go!!...
Vo-do-de-oo-pee-pee...
Shoobe-doot 'n-dadada, ada-da-dahhh ...
Nya-da-da, nya-da-da...
'nite all!...


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

Call Any Vegetable


Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You've gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la

Call any vegetable
Pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable
Lonely at home
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
Rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga, rutaba...

No one will know
If you don't want to let them know
No one will know
'less it's you that might tell them so
Call and they'll come to you
Smiling and covered with dew
Vegetable dream
Vegetable dream
Vegetable dream of responding to you
Standing there shiny and proud by your side
Holding your joint while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide
To hide, to hide, to hide,...

Shooo, shooo, shoo, shoo ....
You know a lot of people don't bother about there friends in the vegetable kingdom. they, they think: what can I say? some times they think: where can I go?
Where can I go to get my poodle clipped in burbank?
At ralph's vegetarian poodle clippin', where you can come this...
Where can I go to get organic vaseline for my ? ? ? ?
At bob and ray's swaheli restorant, where you can come this close.....
Where can I go to get my jeans embroided at fullurton? .....
At jeans, at jeans north where nothing fits
Where can I go to get my zipper repaired in hollywood?
Who gives the fuck anyway
Where can I go to get my speakers fixed?
Where can I go to get my exit lights? ,
At jack lalane hamburgers on 312 woodier(? ) boulavard.
Where can I go to get my stomach pumped?
Where can I go to colapse
Hey, de-due.

Questions, questions, questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today. ah, but it's a great time to be alive ladies and gentlemen. and that's the theme of our program for t
T, it's so fucking great to be alive! is what the theme of our show is tonight, boys and girls. and I'm wanna tell ya, if there is anybody here who doesn't believe that it is fucking
T to be alive, I wish that they go now, because this show will only bring them down so much... ]

God bless america
Land that I love
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You've gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Oh, that the vegetable will respond to you

And if you are a consenting adult we want you to call today in los angeles, the number is richmond9-6935 , in downey it's 347-8932.

Call it direct,
Call it collect,
But call it today.


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

Amnesia Vivace


La-la-la-la
Oooo...
Ah-ah-ah
(my darling
You mean so very much to me
And I feel so deeply...
Ah-ah-ah...

Duke, duke, duke, duke of prunes
I'll never forget you darling
I'll never forget your ballads
I'll never forget your rat race. in fact I might...
Oh, I suppose I'll forget you eventually
What is your name?
Nice to see you again)


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

Plastic People


Ladies and gentlemen...
The president of the united states!
Fella americans...doot, doot, doot...
He's been sick!--doot! doot!
And I think his wife is gonna bring him
Some chicken soap
Plastic people!
Oh, baby, now you're such a drag

I know it's hard to defend an unpopular policy
Every once in a while--

Plastic people!
Oh, baby, now you're such a drag

And there's this guy from the cia he's creepin'
Around laurel canyon
A fine little girl she waits for me
She's as plastic as she can be
She paints her face with plastic goo
And wrecks her hair with some shampoo

Plastic people
Oh, baby, now you're such a drag

I dunno...sometimes I just get tired
Of ya honey--it's...ah..your
Hair spray...or something...

Plastic people
Oh, baby, now you're such a drag

I hear the sound of marching feet...
Down sunset boulevard to crescent heights
...and there...at pandora's box...
We are confronted with...a vast
Quantity of...plastic people...
Take a day and walk around
Watch the nazi's run your town
Then go home and check yourself
You think we're singing
'bout someone else

But you're plastic people
Oh, baby, now
You're such a drag

Me see a neon moon above
I searched for years I found no love
I'm sure that love will never be
A product of plasticity
A product of plasticity
Plastic, plastic people--pla-ha-ha-ha
Ha-plastic--you are--your foot--your hair
--your nose--your arms--you suck--you love
--you are--your being is--you're plastic--blah
--blah--blah--blah plastic peoples
-a prune is not a vegetable
--cabbage is a vegetable; makes it o.k.
--plastic people--plastic people
--you dream about...you think about...you eat
...you are...ooo-hoo-hoo...
Purple prancing--plastic people-
Pee-pee-pee-pee-pee-peep!


Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free (1967)

White Ugliness


Arf arf arf!

I whipped the teeth out.
I had to fight back and hit 'em, like..., you know...,
Hit 'em and hit 'em and hit 'em and kick 'em and kick 'em.
Did he get on top of you?
No, I fought so back, hard back and...
Hard back?
White!
White?
Yeah, white ugliness.
Did it have teeth?
And it was two, it was two boogiemen along the side of 'em.
I really bunked into 'em.
I had to, I had to kick,
I had to fight to four or five boogiemen in front of me...
Well, maybe he can turn into...
One of 'em could maybe be, uh killed.
Yes, but I've heard these ponies are really vicious.
I know, but, I know they're vicious, but i...
These claws!
He doesn't have people doing it.
They get on top of you and they just tear you apart.
I know...
But I hope they don't get 'em.

Ponies...if, if, if...
Was it white? 're you sure? ...it wasn't white,
I mean uh...black, uh...
But I was too scared to notice their physical...
...gold or something...
...i was too, I was too scared to no-no-no-notice their physical,
Ah, appearance, 'cause they...they...they were attackin' me!
They were?
They were attackin' me.
What were they doin' to you?
They were, they were, they were come and surrounding me
And attackin' me and I had to fight back and fight,
Fight and fight back and pick up sticks.
Pick up sticks?
Yes, pick up sticks.
I used to play that game, pick up sticks.
Me too, did you ever play that game?
Yeah! that's funny! ha ha ha!

Now anyway, yes, pony, or president, or popes, I don't know.
Something out there is dangerous.
Could be a cigar or somethin'
A cigar!
A cigar? no, you're insane, come on!
No no.
I remember when I was ah, well, I don't remember.
Those were the days!
That was before the days it will forces.
Yes, before the days ah eh, ponies or boogiemen or somethin'.
What's out there?
But then it was a...what was it then?
Newspapers.
Noooo...
Sure!
Positive.
You had to have 'em.
No no no...
You've got one right in your nose right now!
Hah hah hah!

Zzzzzzz, scratchin' 'em...
Well, I'm gettin' tired...
We should, we should go to sleep...
I just hope he comes back...
I think I'll pray for him...
I think I'll join you...
You do yours and I'll do mine...
Ok

Ha ha ha!

We hope for the best.

Ha ha ha!

(alfred motorhead).

Now I lay me down to sleep.
Amen!


Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (1968)

Very Distraughtening


Ah, that one again.
It's a little pig with wings.
I hear you've been having trouble with pigs and ponies!
It's very distraughtening.

Everything in the universe is, is, is made of one element,
Which is a note, a single note.
Atoms are really vibrations, you know.
With your extensions of the big note, everything's one note.
Everything, even the ponies.
The note, however, is the ultimate power,
But see the pigs don't know that,
The ponies don't know that.

You mean just we know that?

Right!

Merry-go-round, merry-go-round,
Tu-tu-tu-tu tu-tu-tu tu-tu-tu

And they call that doing their thing.
Oh yeah? that's what doing your thing is!
The thing is to put a motor in yourself.



Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (1968)

Just One More Time


Oh yeah!
That's just fine!
Come on boys!
Just one more time!

I think I can explain about how the pigs music works.
Well, this should be interesting.
Remember that they make music with a very dense light.
And remember about the smoke standing still and how they,
They really get up tight,
When you try to move the smoke, right?
Right...
Yeah...
I think the music in that dense light
Is probably what makes the smoke stand still.
Any sort of motion has it's effect on, on the pony's manes.
You know, the thing on their neck.
Hmm...
As soon as the pony's manes starts to get good in the back,
Any sort of, like motion, especially of smoke or gas,
Begins to make the end split.
That's the basis of all their nationalism,
Like if they can't salute the smoke every morning
When they get up.
Yeah, it's a vicious circle, you got it!


Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy (1968)