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==Versions of this Song==
  
==Lyrics==
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===''Freak Out!'' Version===
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - Los Angeles)]]
  
Mr. America, walk on by
 
  
Your schools that do not teach
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===''The MOFO Project/Object'' Version===
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - San Francisco)]]
  
Mr. America, walk on by
 
  
The minds that won't be reached
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===''Electric Aunt Jemima'' Version===
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1968 - Denver)]]
  
Mr. America, try to hide
 
  
The emptiness that's you inside
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===''Unmitigated Audacity'' Version===
 
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1974 - South Bend)]]
But once you find that the way you lied
 
 
 
And all the corny tricks you've tried
 
 
 
Will not forestall the rising tide of
 
 
 
Hungry freaks, daddy
 
 
 
 
 
They won't go for no more
 
 
 
Great, big Western hardware store
 
 
 
Philosophy that turns away
 
 
 
From those who aren't afraid to say
 
 
 
What's on their minds
 
 
 
The left-behinds
 
 
 
Of the great society
 
 
 
 
 
Hungry freaks, daddy
 
 
 
 
 
Mr. America, walk on by
 
 
 
Your supermarket dream
 
 
 
Mr. America, walk on by
 
 
 
The liquor store supreme
 
 
 
Mr. America, try to hide
 
 
 
The product of your savage pride
 
 
 
The useful minds that it denied
 
 
 
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
 
 
 
You saw their clothes and then you cried,
 
 
 
"Those hungry freaks, daddy"
 
 
 
 
 
They won't go for no more
 
 
 
Great, big Western hardware store
 
 
 
Philosophy that turns away
 
 
 
From those who aren't afraid to say
 
 
 
What's on their minds
 
 
 
The left-behinds
 
 
 
Of the great society
 
 
 
==Players On This Song==
 
 
 
==Albums In Which This Song Has Appeared==
 
 
 
[[Freak Out!]]
 
 
 
[[Mothermania]]
 
 
 
==Notes About This Song==
 
 
 
The “Great Society” referred to in “Hungry Freaks, Daddy” and “Trouble Every Day” was an idealistic catch-phrase of President Johnson’s. Some startling kazoo notes leap out of the mix after each bridge in the former song, aligning pop-music idioms with little-kid music in a cheap fanfare manner. Frank, who wrote in his book that every song on Freak Out! had a “function within an overall satirical concept," molded the garbage of the industrial music machine into images of pure acidity, asking listeners to question the music they typically chose for their entertainment ("shaking people out of their complacency" was a frequent Mothers motive).
 
 
 
==CC Clues In This Song==
 

Revision as of 15:39, 25 December 2007

Versions of this Song

Freak Out! Version


The MOFO Project/Object Version


Electric Aunt Jemima Version


Unmitigated Audacity Version