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Crazy Downtown:Allan Sherman. #6 AC and #40 on BB Hot 100 on WARNER BROS. Records in 1965. INTRO: Bb F Bb Eb F #1.
Mommy and BbDad are never nervous or mad when Fyou teenBbagers go, EbdownFtown. Daddy and BbMom just stay at home and keep Fcalm and watch the Bblate late show, Ebup..Ftown.
CHORUS:
Cause Bbwhen you kids are gone we get to Gm7spend some time alone, here. BbThat's our only chance to use the Gm7bathtub or the phone here..Dmwhen you're away. GmBe-Ebsides, we're stuck, where we are, because you Cmkids took our Cmoney, you kids took our car and went, FdownDmtown, Fwhere can you possibly..? FdownDmtown, Fit's twenty after three. FdownDmtown, Fwhat do you mean by, "LBbet's Frug"? (DownFtown..Bb...F....BbdownFtown..)
#2.
BbYou don't come home till 4 AM cause you're Froaming in the Bbstreets somewhere, EbdownFtown. BbWe would feel swell if only someone would Ftell us what goes Bbon down there, EbdownFtown. BbAnd every time we ask you what you're Gm7doing after
dark, there.
BbYou just say that you were Frugging Gm7to Petula Clark, there..Dmthat's what I mean.
CHORUS:
So, Ebkids, give your Ffolks a Ebbreak, because you're Cdriving us crazy, we sit here all night and take, FMilDmtown, Fswallowing pills so we'll Fcalm Dmdown, Fcounting the hours you're FdownDmtown, Fyou and your Frug and your BbSlop. (DownFtown..Bb...F....downGbtown..downGbmtown..)
INTERLUDE: B..Gb B.....E Gbm......B Ebm.....E Gb #3.
BWhile we're lying there we try to Abm7watch the television. BThen you call us up and say you've Abhad a slight Abmcollision.. Ebmthere goes the car. BbBesides that, you've Abbeen arrested so we've Dbgot to get up, and we've got to get dressed and go..GbdownBtown....Gbborrow a car and go..GbdownBtown....Gbthat's where you are, Byou finks.. GbdownBtown, Gbwait 'till I get you kids Bhome. (BDownGbtown.........BdownGbtown..BdownGbtown..)
OUTRO:(SPOKEN:) There'll be no more Frugging, no Swim, no Jerk,
(BDownGbtown.........BdownGbtown..BdownGbtown..) no Mashed Potato, no Slop!..and you know what else? (BDownGbtown.........BdownGbtown..BdownGbtown..) You're gonna stay home tonight, and your mother and I are
going downtown and we're going to dance the Tango, and the
(BDownGbtown.........BdownGbtown..BdownGbtown..) Waltz, and the Foxtrot, and we're gonna do the Bunny Hop.
That's a nice dance!..and there'll be no more Frugging!
(BDownGbtown.........BdownGbtown..BdownGbtown..) Is that quite clear?..NO MORE FRUGGING!! (BDownGbtown.........BdownGbtown..BdownGbtown..)(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.