Divan: Once Upon A Time chords by
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
The Mothers
The Mothers

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Key: C major
Intro 1
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Gm
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Verse 1
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Once upon a time,
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way back a long time ago
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When the universe consisted of nothing
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more elaborate than Mark Bolman
Uh- huh, thank you Frank
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And don't mispell it, that's not Marc Bolan,
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that's Mark Volman
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Hi, you friends, I wanna welcome
each and everyone of you
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I wanna say to you tonight I feel great
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I mean, I feel great
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Everywhere I go people are always
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coming up to me
And they say, "Mark, Mark,
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Mark" (Mark, Mark, Mark)
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"Mark, are you kidding?"
Verse 2
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Let me tell you this, friends,
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I am not kidding
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I mean, I am portly and I am maroon
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Well, how many people tonight here can
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guess what I am?
Uh, not me (I can't guess
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what you are)
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Well, then I'll give you some clues
Verse 3
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And the first clue is, I am portly
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Is that help?
Not much (no)
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I don't know who you are (I see)
Verse 4
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Okay, I got one
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Clue number two
I am double knit
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Does that help?
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No, not much (what do you
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mean?)
Verse 5
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Well, then I've to give you one more clue
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I know this is gonna give it away and I hate
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like damn to tell you what it is
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But clue number three
Ich bin maroon
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Ah, you're a so fa
Verse 6
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Way back a long time ago
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When the universe consisted of nothing more elaborate
than Mark Volman (thank you, Frank)
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Trying to convince each and every member this
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extremely hip audience here tonight
That he was nothing more,
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nothing less
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Than a fat maroon sofa
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Suspended in the midst
of a great emptiness
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A light shined down from heaven
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Verse 7
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And there he was,
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ladies and gentlemen
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The good Lord
And he took a,
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he took a look at the sofa
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And he said to himself,
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quite an attractive sofa
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This sofa could be commercia (thank you, Frank,
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how are you Frank?)
With a few more margaritas and
the right company
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Verse 8
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However, I digress
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"What this sofa needs",
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said the big G
"Is a bit of flooring underneath of it"
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And so, in order to make this
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Construction project possible
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He summoned the assistance
of the celestial core of engineers
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Verse 9
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And, by means of a cute little song
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in the German language
Which is the way he talks whenever
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it's heavy business
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The good Lord went
something like this
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Take it away, Jim Pons
Verse 10
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Gib zu mir et was fussbodenbelag
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Unter diesen fetten fliessenden sofa
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(everybody)
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Gib zu mir et was fussbodenbelag
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Unter diesen fetten fliessenden sofa
Verse 11
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And of course ladies and gentlemen,
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that means
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Give unto me a bit of flooring under
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this fat floating sofa
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And sure enough boards of oak appeared throughout
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the emptiness as far as vision permits
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Stretching all the way from
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Belfast to Bogner Regis
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And the Lord put aside his huge cigar
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And proceeded to deliver unto
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the charming maroonish sofa
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The bulk of his message
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With the assistance of a small electric clarinet,
and it went something like this

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