Frank Zappa - Wonderful Wino

Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

In his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands—he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship.
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L.A. in the summer of '69
I went downtown and bought me some wine
Oh, I drank it down under the table
I said: "Watch me now, I'm gonna eat the label!"
Well I'm a wino man
Don't you know I am?

36, 24, hips about 30
I seen a fine lady and I started talkin' dirty
Boy, she looked over at me and she raised her thumb
She said: "Jam down the road, you bum-ba-bum-bum"
I'm a wino man
Don't you know I am?

I went to the country
And while I was gone
I lost control of my body functions
On a roller-headed lady's front lawn
I'm so ashamed, but I'm a wino man
I can't help myself

I've been drinkin' all night till my eyes got red
Stumbled on the gutter and busted my head
Bugs in my zoot suit, been scratchin' like a dog
I can't stand no water, and I stink like a hog
Give me a five-dollar bill
And an overcoat too
Give me a five-dollar bill
And an overcoat too
A five-dollar bill and an overcoat too
A five-dollar bill and a Florsheim shoe

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[Chazticus09]

@BetterTasteThanU ---Overrated commie?.....You,my friend,are a dink....

[clocprior]

Underated classic!

[badazzpresidents23]

I like the version on 'Playground Psychotics' even better :P

[bluebassett2]

Give me 5 dollar bill and a Florsheim shoe...

[VinsaneOne]

@clocprior The whole album is fantastic!

[puddelisa]

YEAH ! Whatabout some real music, NOW WEV'E GOT (HAD) IT

Kiss My Comb, Fellows !

[steveY2K1]

gimme five dollah bill and an overcoat too...five dollah bill and a florsheim shoe...saw Zappa in '76 in Champaign, Illinois...great concert, all brilliant musicians!

[BENFICA60]

@BetterTasteThanU Didn't you mean to say pinko commie? I'd rather be, we'll frankly [no pun intended] I am, a commie. As Frank would say "it's a way of life". I'd rather be a commie than a Tea Bagger, anyday!

[mfish618]

@BetterTasteThanU I suggest you listen to another Zappa composition.....Dumb All Over.

[ChichGyver]

Hahahah 1969!!