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

N/A•

Key: C major•

Intro 1

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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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Chords

C
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F
Gm
Fm

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The original key of Divan: Once Upon A Time by Frank Zappa, The Mothers is C major.

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