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 (131141@2)name="chord_x2444x@1">B F#m7 (131141@2)name="chord_x2444x@1">B


      F#m7 (131141@2)name="chord_x2444x@1">B        F#m7 (131141@2) BBrown (x2444x@1)shoes   don't make it
      F#m7 (131141@2)name="chord_x2444x@1">B        F#m7 (131141@2) BBrown (x2444x@1)shoes   don't make it
     F#m7 (131141@2)B (x2444x@1)    F#m7 (131141@2)BQuit (x2444x@1)school, why fake it
      F#m7 (131141@2)name="chord_x2444x@1">B       F#m7 (131141@2) B (x2444x@1)Brown shoes  don't make it
   C (x32010@1)                  
TV dinner by the pool
           DbWatch (x43121@1)your brother grow a beard
      CGot (x32010@1)another year of school
       BbYou're (x1333x@1)OK, he's too weird
      A (x02220@1)           ABe (x02220@1)a plumber He's a bummer
       A (x02220@1)          AHe's (x02220@1)a bummer every summer
     Em (022000@1)F#m (244222@1)name="chord_320003@1">G    A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1)name="chord_x13321@4">C#m
Be a loy-al  plas-tic ro-bot
D (xx0232@1) E (022100@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A     F#m (244222@1)E (022100@1)  F#mFor (244222@1)a world that does-n't care
Bb6Smile (x15xxx@1)at every ugly

Shine on your shoes and cut your hair


Intro: F#m7 B F#m7 B
       F#m7 (131141@2)name="chord_x2444x@1">B F#m7 (131141@2)name="chord_x2444x@1">B

     F#m7 (131141@2)      B (x2444x@1)          F#m7 (131141@2)      B (x2444x@1) 
Be a jerk and go to work Be a jerk and go to work
     F#m7 (131141@2)      B (x2444x@1)          F#m7 (131141@2)      B (x2444x@1) 
Be a jerk and go to work Be a jerk and go to work
     F#m7 (131141@2)      B (x2444x@1)        
Do your job, and do it right
         F#m7 (131141@2) B (x2444x@1) 
Life's a ball! (TV tonight!)
        F#m7 (131141@2)         B (x2444x@1) 
Do you love it, do you hate it?
         F#m7 (131141@2)          B (x2444x@1)     F#m7There (131141@2)it is, the way you made it (WOOOooow)

[Changes to a moderate waltz, 3/4 time sig]


B (x2444x@1)               C#A (x43121@1)world of secret hungers,
B (x2444x@1)                              C#Perverting (x43121@1)the men who make your laws
B (x2444x@1)             C#Every (x43121@1)desire is hidden away,
Db Cb Fm7add5 Db6/9 Gbmaj7 Fm7add5
In a (x02210@1)drawer, in    a (x02210@1)    desk,
Cbmaj7 Dbmaj7 Eb  F Gbmaj7 Eb    Gb
By     a (x02210@1)    Nau-ga-hyde  chair
GOn (320003@1)a rug where they walk and drool
GPast (320003@1)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 (xx0232@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D C (x32010@1)name="chord_x2444x@1">B A (x02220@1)name="chord_320003@1">G A (x02220@1)name="chord_x2444x@1">B
His wife's attending an orchid show
                      (can do the above but ascreaming (x02210@1)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!


       C (x32010@1)                  Dm (xx0231@1)   
And he loves it! He loves it! It curls up his toes!
    Em (022000@1)                F (133211@1) G (320003@1)F (133211@1)                 EmShe (022000@1)bites his fat neck, And it lights up his nose, But
Em (022000@1)                 C (x32010@1) DmHe (xx0231@1)cannot be fooled, Old City Hall Fred,
C (x32010@1)   Bb (x1333x@1)         C (x32010@1)        D9         E9She's (020132@1)nasty, she's nasty, She digs it in bed!


Cmaj7 (x32000@1) C/Em      Dm7         Eb/BbDo (x43121@3)it a-gain, and do it some more!
     Cmaj7 (x32000@1)     Em6(sus Eb) Dm (xx0231@1)       Am7That (x02010@1)does it, by golly,      it's nasty for sure!

Nasty-nasty-nasty! Nasty-nasty-nasty!

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty


        G (320003@1)         Dm (xx0231@1)  F (133211@1)     Em (022000@1)   Dm (xx0231@1)   C (x32010@1)
She's a dirty young mind.   Cor-rupt-ed, cor-rod-ed
           G (320003@1)         Dm (xx0231@1)  F (133211@1)     Em (022000@1)      Dm (xx0231@1)CWell (x32010@1)she's thir-teen to-day,   And I hear she gets load-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?


Bb (x1333x@1)       A (x02220@1)      Ab (xx1114@1)name="chord_320001@1">G7 
Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup,
    C7 (x32310@1)      F7 (131241@1)      Bb (x1333x@1)  Dbdim (3423xx@1)name="chord_131241@1">F7
And strap her on again,    Oh  ba-by!
Bb (x1333x@1)         A (x02220@1)   Ab7 (xx1112@1)name="chord_320001@1">G7
Smother that girl in   chocolate syrup,
    C7 (x32310@1)               F7And (131241@1)strap her on again!
        Bb (x1333x@1)                  Bb7She's (x13131@1)a Teenage Baby, and she turns me on,
            Eb (x43121@3)I'd like to make Her do a nasty
       Gb7On (242352@1)the White House Lawn!
         Bb (x1333x@1)         A (x02220@1)       Ab (xx1114@1)name="chord_320001@1">G7  
Going to smother that daugh-ter in chocolate syrup,
C7 (x32310@1)                F7 (131241@1)      BbAnd (x1333x@1)boogie till the cows come home!


N.C
Time to go home, Madge is on the phone
N.C
Gotta meet the Gurneys And a dozen gray attorneys
N.C
TV dinner by the pool I'm so glad I finished school


C (x32010@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)    AbLife (xx1114@1)is such a  ball 
Gb (244322@1)  D (xx0232@1)       C (x32010@1)        Am9I (x02413@1)run the world from Ci-ty Hall