Brown Shoes Don't Make It by Frank Zappa
Key: BB | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro: F#m7 B F#m7 B
       F#m7 B F#m7 B
      F#m7 B        F#m7   B
Brown shoes   don't make it
      F#m7 B        F#m7   B
Brown shoes   don't make it
     F#m7  B      F#m7  B
Quit school, why fake it
      F#m7 B       F#m7   B 
Brown shoes  don't make it
   C                    
TV dinner by the pool
           C#
Watch your brother grow a beard
      C
Got another year of school
       A#
You're OK, he's too weird
      A             A
Be a plumber He's a bummer
       A            A
He's a bummer every summer
     Em  F#m G    A   Bm C#m
Be a loy-al  plas-tic ro-bot
D   E A     F#m  E    F#m
For a world that does-n't care
A#6
Smile at every ugly
Shine on your shoes and cut your hair
Intro: F#m7 B F#m7 B
       F#m7 B F#m7 B
     F#m7        B            F#m7        B   
Be a jerk and go to work Be a jerk and go to work
     F#m7        B            F#m7        B   
Be a jerk and go to work Be a jerk and go to work
     F#m7        B          
Do your job, and do it right
         F#m7   B   
Life's a ball! (TV tonight!)
        F#m7           B   
Do you love it, do you hate it?
         F#m7            B       F#m7
There it is, the way you made it (WOOOooow)
Changes to a moderate waltz, 3/4 time sig
B                 C#
A world of secret hungers,
B                                C#
Perverting the men who make your laws
B               C#
Every desire is hidden away,
C# B Fm7add5 C#6/9 F#maj7 Fm7add5
In a  drawer, in    a      desk,
Bmaj7 C#maj7 D#  F F#maj7 D#    F#
By     a      Nau-ga-hyde  chair
G
On a rug where they walk and drool
G
Past 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!
       C                    Dm     
And he loves it! He loves it! It curls up his toes!
    Em                  F   G  F                   Em
She bites his fat neck, And it lights up his nose, But
Em                   C   Dm
He cannot be fooled, Old City Hall Fred,
C     A#           C          D9         E9
She's nasty, she's nasty, She digs it in bed!
Cmaj7   C/Em      Dm7         D#/A#
Do it a-gain, and do it some more!
     Cmaj7       Em6(sus D#) 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
        G           Dm    F       Em     Dm     C  
She's a dirty young mind.   Cor-rupt-ed, cor-rod-ed
           G           Dm    F       Em        Dm  C
Well 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?
A#         A        G# G7 
Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup,
    C7        F7        A#    C#dim F7
And strap her on again,    Oh  ba-by!
A#           A     G#7 G7
Smother that girl in   chocolate syrup,
    C7                 F7
And strap her on again!
        A#                    A#7
She's a Teenage Baby, and she turns me on,
            D# 
I'd like to make Her do a nasty
       F#7
On the White House Lawn!
         A#           A         G# G7  
Going to smother that daugh-ter in chocolate syrup,
C7                  F7        A#
And 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    A#      G#
Life is such a  ball 
F#    D         C          Am9
I run the world from Ci-ty Hall