Once Upon a Time chords by
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
The Mothers Of Invention
The Mothers Of Invention

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 more elaborate
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than Mark Bowman.
Oh, thank you, Frank.
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And don't misspell it.
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That's not Mark Bowlin.
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That's Mark Bowman.
Hiya, friends.
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I want to welcome each and
every one of you.
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I want to say to you tonight,
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I feel great.
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I mean, I feel great.
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Everywhere I go,
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people are always coming up to me,
and they say, Mark, Mark, Mark.
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Mark, Mark, Mark.
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Mark are you kidding?
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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 here tonight
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can guess what I am?
I can't guess what you are.
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well then I'll give you some clues
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and the first clue is I am partly that help okay
I got one clue number two
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I am double -knit
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well then I have
to give you one more clue.
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I know this is going to give it away
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and I hate like damn to tell you this.
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But clue number three.
Ich bin Maroon.
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Oh, you're a sofa.
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Way back a long time ago
when the universe consisted of nothing
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more elaborate than Mark Vollman
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trying to convince each and every member
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of this extremely hip audience here tonight
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that he was nothing more, nothing less,
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than a fat maroon sofa
suspended in the midst of a great emptiness,
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a light shined down from heaven.
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And there he was, ladies and gentlemen,
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the good Lord.
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And 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 commercial
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with a few more margaritas in
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the right company.
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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,
he
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He summoned the assistance
of the Celestial Corps of Engineers
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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 Ponds.
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Give to me, something
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to put on the table
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Under this fat, flowing sofa
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Give to me, something
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to put on the table
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Unter diesem fetten, fließenden Sofa
And of course, ladies and gentlemen,
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that means give unto me
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a bit of flooring
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under this fat floating sofa.
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And sure enough, boards of oak
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appeared throughout the emptiness
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as far as vision permits,
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stretching all the way from
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Belfast to Bognor Re gis.
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And the Lord put aside his huge cigar
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and proceeded to deliver
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onto the charming maroonish sofa
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the bulk of his message
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with the assistance of
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a small electric clarinet
and it went something like this.

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