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The Poodle Lecture chords by
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

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Verse 1
A

FZ:
G
A
G
A
G
A

In the beginning God made 'the light.' Shortly
G
A
G
A
G

thereafter God made three big
A

Mistakes. The first mistake was called MAN,
G

the second mistake was called
A

WO- MAN, and the third mistake was the invention of
G
A
Em
A

THE POODLE. Now the reason
G
A
G

The poodle was such a big mistake is because God
A

originally wanted to build a
G
C
A

Schnauzer, but he fucked up. Now a long time ago,
G
A

the poodle used to be a very
G

Attractive dog. The poodle had hair
A

evenly distributed all over its small
G
A
G
A

Piquant canine type BODY. That's the way
G

it used to be, the poodle used to be a
A
G

Regular looking dog. You know it's true, I guess

you do too. (Oh, I have to
A

Kiss you? Oh okay.)
G
Anyway listen, check this out. The poodle used
Verse 2

to look good,
A

you know the
G
A

Regular dogs that used to hang out in

the neighbourhood looked at the poodle,
G
A

Didn't think anything of it. You know,
G
A

they didn't use to make fun of it in the
G

Olden days. But the WO- MAN, as you

know, has always been much smarter than the
A

MAN.
Em
A

Guy In The Audience:
G
You're
Verse 3

the best!

FZ:
Verse 4
A

That stuff is very bad for you, throw it away,
G

okay. Now you're interrupting my
A
G

Story, now listen . . . What is that? Is that
A
G
A

the Tower of Power or what? Oh no

No, it's one of those dope fiend
G

devices, take it away. Now listen:
Em
The WO- MAN has always
Verse 5
A

been much smarter than the MAN,
G

you know this is true.
A

And so it was since the beginning of time.
G

The MAN would do anything to get
A

Some pussy. And that's why the WO-
G

MAN always had control over him.
Verse 6
A

In the beginning the WO- MAN looked
G
A

the MAN directly into the eye and said: "I
G
A

Tell you what, why don't you go get a job because
G

I could use a few nice things
A

Around the house. Mainly what I need is a clipper,

a scissors, and a pair of

Zircon encrusted tweezers." (Thank you
G

very much.)
A
An d of course
Verse 7

the MAN did his duty as
G

they say in the trade. He went out and he
A

Got a goddamn job. Went out and pushed
G

that broom around for about a
A

Dollar- 2.98 an hour, brought his money back

to the garden of Eden and gave that
G
Em

Money to the WO- MAN.
Verse 8
A
G

The WO- MAN ran out the back door of the garden
A
G
A

of Eden, went directly to the
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A

Hardware store, got the clippers,
G

the scissors and the zircon encrusted
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G

Tweezers and came back and, while the
A
G
A

MAN was very tired from having his job,
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A
G
A
G
A

While he was sleeping, the WO- MAN got a hold
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A
G
A
G

of the POODLE. Because the WO- MAN
Em
A

Had noticed earlier that the

length and proportion of the poodle oral
G
A

Appendage, the tongue of the dog in other words,

ladies and gentlemen, was very
G
A
G

Much to her liking, except that this dog
A

had too goddamn much hair on it. It
G
A

Didn't have the disco look that's
G

so popular nowadays.
Verse 9
A

And so the WO- MAN sat out to modify
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A

the aforementioned dog. Let me get a little
G

Uh, visual aid . . .
Verse 10
A
G

Now she took the dog and she cleaned
A
G
A

it up a little bit. You see, she took a
G
A

Little bit of the back- part here, around the neck,

the thorax, the tootsies.
G

Got all of the unwanted extranious material off
A
G
A
G

this area which we shall call
A
G
A

Burbank. Then she set the little sucker up like this,
G
A

really nice, got his
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G
A

Mouth set up like that. And squatted right ON HIM.
G
A
A

Looking down into the dog's
G

Eyes. She looked down into the dog's eyes,
A
G

do you know what she said to the

Dog? She said:

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