Stinkfoot

STINKFOOT (Frank Zappa) from Apostrophe Intro                     (Bass plays )  Riff  Variant 1   In the dark where all the fevers grow             (Carries on) Under the water where the shark bubbles blow In the mornin’ by yer radio Do the walls close in t’ suffocate ya                       (Carries on) You ain’t got no friends ’n’ all the others they hate ya Does the life you been livin’ gotta go hmmm? Well lemme straighten you out about a place I know... (Get yer shoes ’n socks on people It’s right aroun’ the corner!) Out through the night an’ the whispering breezes To the place where they keep the Imaginary Diseases Out through the night an’ the whispering breezes To the place where they keep the Imaginary Diseases mmm... This has to be the disease for you. Now scientists call this disease Bromidrosis but us regular folks who might wear tennis shoes Or an occasional python boot know this exquisite little inconvenience by the name of: Cdim STINK FOOT Y’know my python boot is too tight I couldn’t get it off last night (Carries On) A week went by an’ now it’s July I finally got it off  an’ my girl-friend cry "You got STINK FOOT!  STINK FOOT darlin’ Your STINK FOOT puts a hurt on my nose! STINK FOOT! STINK FOOT! I ain’t lyin’ can you rinse it off d’you suppose?" Chromatic Bit Over Here Fido... Fido... Come here little puppy... bring the slippers "Arf arf arf!" (crash-crumble-bump-bump-bump) Heh heh heh... sick... Guitar Solo  (over Riff variant 2) Chords just before the Solo ends          Well then Fido got up off the floor an’ he rolled over    (Carries On) An’ he looked me straight in the eye an’ you know what he said? Once upon a time somebody say to me (This is a dog talkin’ now) What is your Conceptual Continuity? Well I told him right then (Fido said) It should be easy to see The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe Well you know the man who was talkin’ to the dog Looked at the dog an’ he said: (sort of staring in disbelief) "You can’t say that!" He said: "IT DOESN’T ’n YOU CAN’T! I WON’T ’n IT DON’T! IT HASN’T IT ISN’T IT EVEN AIN’T ’N IT SHOULDN’T... IT COULDN’T!" He told me NO NO NO! I told him YES YES YES! I said: "I do it all the time...Ain’t this boogie a mess!" Over Hard Driving  (12 to the Bar) THE POODLE BY-EE-ITES THE POODLE CHEWS IT THE POODLE BY-EE-ITES THE POODLE CHEWS IT THE POODLE BY-EE-ITES THE POODLE CHEWS IT THE POODLE BY-EE-ITES THE POODLE CHEWS IT (Carries On) Later changes to (POO-DLE...) (... BITES)