Frank Zappa - Brown shoes dont make it
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Brown Shoes Don't Make It
As played on Absolutely Free
By Frank Zappa
Chart by Paul Wilson
In the first Verse the chords change on the 2 and the 4.
Time 4/4 untill I say it changes
Intro: F#m7 B F#m7 B
F#m7 B F#m7 B
Brown F#m7shoesB don't F#m7make itB
Brown F#m7shoesB don't F#m7make itB
Quit F#m7schoolB, why fF#m7ake itB
Brown F#m7shoesB don't F#m7make itB
TV Cdinner by the pool
Watch your Dbbrother grow a beard
Got anCother year of school
You're BbOK, he's too weird
Be a pAlumber He's a Abummer
He's a Abummer every Asummer
Be a Emloy-F#mal Gplas-Atic Bmro-C#mbot
DFor Ea Aworld F#mthat Edoes-F#mn't care
Bb6Smile at every ugly
Shine on your shoes and cut your hair
Intro: F#m7 B F#m7 B
F#m7 B F#m7 B
Be a F#m7jerk and go Bto work Be a F#m7jerk and go Bto work
Be a F#m7jerk and go Bto work Be a F#m7jerk and go Bto work
Do yoF#m7ur job, and Bdo it right
Life's a F#m7ball! (BTV tonight!)
Do you lF#m7ove it, do you Bhate it?
There it F#m7is, the way you Bmade it F#m7(WOOOooow)
[Changes to a moderate waltz, 3/4 time sig]
BA world of secret C#hungers,
BPerverting the men who make your C#laws
BEvery desire is C#hidden away,
Db Cb Fm7add5 Db6/9 Gbmaj7 Fm7add5
In a drawer, in a desk,
Cbmaj7By Dbmaj7a EbNau-FgaGbmaj7-hyde Ebchair Gb
GOn a rug where they walk and drool
GPast the girls in the office
The 12 piece string ensemble plays here, I couldn't make out any chords and the
Frank Zappa Songbook has none for this part either.
[back to 4/4 time sig]
N.C
(throte clearing sounds)
N.C
You see in the back, of the cynical mind
N.C
The dream of a girl about thirteen
N.C
Off with her clothes and into a bed,
N.C
Where she tickles his fancy all night long
(all 8ths)
N.C D D C B A G A B
His wife's attending an orchid show
(can do the above but a screaming sound is played here)
She squealed for a week to get him to go
N.C
But back in the bed his teenage Queen
Is rocking and rolling and acting obscene
Baby! Baby!
Baby! Baby!
And he Cloves it! He loves itDm! It curls up his toes!
She Embites his fat neck, FAnd Git Flights up his nose, EmBut
EmHe cannot be fooled, COld DmCity Hall Fred,
CShe's Bbnasty, she's Cnasty, She D9digs it in E9bed!
Cmaj7 C/Em Dm7 Eb/Bb
Do it a-gain, and do it some more!
Cmaj7 Em6(sus Eb) Dm Am7
That does it, by golly, it's nasty for sure!
Nasty-nasty-nasty! Nasty-nasty-nasty!
Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty
She's a Gdirty young Dmmind. F Cor-ruEmpt-ed, Dmcor-rodC-ed
Well she's Gthir-teen toDm-day, F And I Emhear she gDmets Cload-ed
(This part is random keyboard and guitar sounds)
If she were my daughter I'd
What would you do, Daddy?
If she were my daughter I'd
What would you do, Daddy?
If she were my daughter I'd
What would you do, Daddy?
BbSmother my Adaughter Abin G7chocolate syrup,
And C7strap her F7on again, Bb Oh Dbdim ba-byF7!
BbSmother that Agirl iAb7n G7chocolate syrup,
And C7strap her on again!F7
She's a BbTeenage Baby, and she Bb7turns me on,
I'd like to Ebmake Her do a nasty
On the Gb7White House Lawn!
Going to Bbsmother that Adaugh-ter Abin G7chocolate syrup,
C7And boogie till the F7cows come Bbhome!
N.C
Time to go home, Madge is on the phoneN.C
Gotta meet the Gurneys And a dozen gray attorneysN.C
TV dinner by the pool I'm so glad I finished schoolCLife Bbis such Aba ball
GbI run Dthe world Cfrom Ci-ty Am9Hall