• Song:

    Absolutely Free

  • Artist:

    Frank Zappa

  • Album:

    We're Only in It for th...

This song is in 3/4 
Spoken:
G5
      The first word in the song is "discorporate"
Eb5
      It means 'to leave your body'

Sung:

VERSE 1:
F5                G5 
Discorporate and come with me
F5                   C5
Shifting, drifting, cloudless, starless
Ab5     Db5      Eb5      G5       F5      F5    Eb5
Velvet valleys and  a  sapphire sea   (wah  wah)

VERSE 2:
F5                   G5                 
Unbind your mind,   there is no time
F5                       C5  
To lick your stamps and paste them in
Ab5       Db5       Eb5  G5   F5        F5    Eb5
Discorporate, and we  will begin   (wah  wah--Flower Power Sucks)

VERSE 3:
F5           G5         F5          G5  
Diamonds on velvets on goldens on vixen
   F5         G5       F5          G5
On comet and cupid on donner and blitzen
   F5      G5       F5          G5
On up and away and afar and a go-go
  F5             G5             F5         G5 (major)
Escape from the weight of your corporate logo!

CHORUS:
C5           A5           D5     B5      E*       
Unbind your mind, there is no time---Boin-n-n-n-g
E5 -- G5 ---- D5 ---- E5 ------ E5 --- G5 ----- D5 ---- E5 
To lick your stamps and paste them in
E5 -- D5 -- C#5 - B5 ---- B5 --- D5 ----- A5 - B5
Discorporate, and we'll begin
B5 -- D5 -- A5 -- B5 -- B5 -- C#5 -- D5 -- A5

(piano solo thirds C#5 - E5  |  B5 - D5  |  C#5 - E5  |  D5 - F#5  |  C#5 - E5  |  B5 - D5  |  A5 - C#5 )

G5        F5        G5      F5
Freedom! Freedom! Kindly Loving!
G5         F5   E5    D5   G5    F5      E5     Dm7** Eb**  
You'll be absolutely free, only if you want to be

VERSE 4:
F5           G5          F5          G5
Dreaming on cushions of velvet and satin
   F5        G5       F5           G5 
To music by magic by people that happen
   F5         G5         F5              G5
To enter the world of a strange purple jello
    F5              G5            F5          G5 (major)
The dreams as they live them are all mellow yellow

REPEAT CHORUS:

NOTES:
*From the word "Boin-n-n-g" until right before the piano solo, I
believe these are all just single notes played on guitar/bass. It
sounds as if it is playing an Em chord, but I am not exactly sure.
If anyone knows different please let me know.

**At the end of the chorus on the 2nd time, it does some weird
stuff with the Dm7 and Eb chords, and then repeats the last line of
the chorus one more time
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