• Song:

    Mom And Dad

  • Artist:

    Frank Zappa

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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".


Em* (022000@1)  Em7      Fmaj9 (103010@1)CsusD  DsusE  EsusF#          DsusE
       Mama!    Mama!  Some - one    said  they made some noise

         CsusD     Cmaj9b5  F (133211@1)       Em* (022000@1)the cops have shot some     girls and boys.

C6/9 (x32233@1)     Am9 (x02413@1)    DsusE     Fmaj9 (103010@1)    C6/9 (x32233@1)     Am9You'll (x02413@1)sit home and drink all night they looked too weird it

DsusE       Em* (022000@1)served them right.

(repeat the above)

F6/9
Ever take a minute just to show a real emotion,

in between the moisture cream and velvet facial lotion?

Bbmaj9 (x10211@1)       Abmaj9 (43534x@1)    Bbmaj9 (x10211@1)           Abmaj9Ever (43534x@1)tell your kids you're glad that they can think?

Bbmaj9 (x10211@1)     Abmaj9 (43534x@1)         Bbmaj9 (x10211@1)           Abmaj7Ever (xx4321@3)say you loved them? Ever let them watch you drink?

DsusE
Ever wonder why your daughter looked so sad? It's

                                           Em* (022000@1)such a drag to love a plastic Mom and Dad.

       F6/9 (100011@1)     CsusD DsusE EsusF#                DsusE
Mama!  Mama! Your child was   killed in the park to-day,

     CsusD              F (133211@1)     Em* (022000@1)Shot by the cops as she quietly lay.

C6/9 (x32233@1) Am9 (x02413@1)       DsusE      Fmaj9 (103010@1)               EmBy (022000@1)the side of the creeps she knew. They killed her too.


The chord shapes are

Em7 Fmaj9 CsusD DsusE EsusF# Cmaj9b5 F
-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------------------|

C6/9 Am9 F6/9 Bbmaj9 Abmaj9 Abmaj7
------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.

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