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From: chuck@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Andrew Hawling)
"Mom & Dad" - Frank Zappa
This is from the Frank Zappa Songbook and appeared on the Mothers album
"Were Only In It For The Money".
*
Mama! Mama! Some - one said they made some noise
*
the cops have shot some girls and boys.
You'll sit home and drink all night they looked too weird it
*
served them right.
(repeat the above)
Ever take a minute just to show a real emotion,
in between the moisture cream and velvet facial lotion?
Ever tell your kids you're glad that they can think?
Ever say you loved them? Ever let them watch you drink?
Ever wonder why your daughter looked so sad? It's
Em *
such a drag to love a plastic Mom and Dad.
Mama! Mama! Your child was killed in the park to-day,
*
Shot by the cops as she quietly lay.
By the side of the creeps she knew. They killed her too.
The chord shapes are
-0----3-----0-----0-----2-------2----1-----|
-3----1-----3-----3-----0-------3----1-----|
-0----2-----0-----2-----1-------4----2-----|
-2----2-----2-----0-----2-------2----3-----|
-2----x-----3-----------2-------3----------|
-0----1-----------------0------------------|
------0---3-----1------3------3------------|
-3----1---3-----1------4------1------------|
-2----4---2-----2------3------1------------|
-2----2---3-----3------5------1------------|
-3----0---------1------3-------------------|
----------------1------4-------------------|
Also the opening riff which reappears through out the song (marked as Em *) is
this:
-------0---------------------------------|
-0-2-3-2-3---2-3-2-0---2-0---------------|
-0-2-4---4---2-----0-2-2-0---------------|
-2-------------------4-------------------|
-2---------------------------------------|
-0---------------------------------------|
The ending tacet is:
They killed her too.
---------------------------0-------------|
------------------0--------0-------------|
-0----------------0---6-7--0-------------|
------4------2-0--2--------2-------------|
------------------2---4-5--2-------------|
------------------0--------0-------------|
The last chord should be played as an arpeggio.