Once Upon a Time chords by Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention
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Intro 1
(C major) (G major) (C major) (G major)
(F major) (G major) (C major)
Verse 1
Once (C major) upon a time,
(G major) way back a long time (C major) ago,
when the universe con (G major) sisted
of nothing more elaborate
than Mark (C major) Bowman.
Oh, thank you, Frank.
An (G major) d don't misspell it.
That's not Mark (C major) Bowlin.
(G major) That's Mark Bowman. (C major)
Hiya, friends.
I (G major) want to welcome each and
every one of you.
I want to (F minor) say to you to (G major) night,
I (C major) feel great.
I mean, I feel great. (G major)
Everywhere (F major) I go,
(G major) people are always coming (C major) up to me,
and they say, Mark, Mark, Mark.
(G major) Mark, Mark, Mark.
(F major) Mark (G major) are you (C major) kidding?
Let me tell you this (G major) friends,
I am not kidding. (C major)
I mean, I am portly (G major) and I (C major) am ma (G major) roon. (C major)
Well, how (G major) many people here tonight
can guess what (C major) I am?
I can't guess what you are.
(G major) well (F major) then I'll (G major) give you some clues
and (C major) the first clue is I (G major) am partly that help (C major) (G major) okay
I got one clue number two
(C major) I am double -knit
(G major) well (C major) (G major) (C major) then (G major) I have
to give you one more clue.
I know this is going to give (C major) it away
and I hate like damn to tell you this. (G major)
But clue number three. (C major)
Ich bin Maroon.
(G major) Oh, (C major) you're a (G major) sofa. (C major)
Way back a long time (G major) ago
when the universe consisted of nothing
more (C major) elaborate than Mark Vollman
trying (G major) to convince each and every member
of this extremely hip (C major) audience here tonight
that he was nothing more, (G major) nothing less,
than a fat maroon (C major) sofa
suspended in the midst of a great emptiness,
a (G major) light shined down from (F major) heav (G major) en. (C major)
An (G major) d there he was, ladies and gentlemen,
(C major) (G major) the good Lord. (C major)
And he took a look at the sofa, (G major)
and he said (F major) to himself,
(G major) quite an attractive sofa.
(C major) this sofa could be commer (G major) cial
with a (C major) few more margaritas in
the right company. (G major)
However, (C major) I digress.
What this sofa need (G major) s,
said the Big G, (C major)
is a bit of flooring underneath of it.
And so, (G major) in order to make this
construc (C major) tion project possible,
he
(G major) He summoned the assistance
of the Celestial Corps of Engineers
and, (C major) by (G major) means of a (F major) cute little song
(G major) in the German lan (C major) guage,
which is the way he talks whenever
it's heavy business, (G major)
The good Lord (C major) went something like this.
(G major) Take it away, (C major) Jim Pond (G major) s. (C major)
Give to (G major) me, something (C major) (G major)
to put (C major) on the table
Under this (G major) fat, flowing sofa (C major)
Give to (G major) me, (F major) something
(G major) to put (C major) on the table
(G major) Unter diesem fetten, fließenden So (C major) fa
And of course, ladies and gentlemen,
(G major) that means give unto me
(C major) a bit of floor (G major) ing
under this fat (C major) floating sofa.
And sure (G major) enough, boards of oak
appeared (C major) throughout (G major) the emptiness
as (C major) far as vision permits,
stretching all the way (G major) from
Belfast to (F major) Bognor (G major) Re gis. (C major)
And the Lord put aside his huge (G major) cigar
and proceeded (C major) to deliver
onto the charming ma (C major) roon (G major) ish sofa
the bulk of (C major) his message
with (C major) the assistance of
a small (G major) electric clarinet
and it went something like this.
Once Upon a Time
Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention
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