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==Lyrics==
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==Versions of this Song==  
  
Mr. America, walk on by<br />
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===''Freak Out!'' Version===
Your schools that do not teach<br />
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - Los Angeles)]]
Mr. America, walk on by<br />
 
The minds that won't be reached<br />
 
Mr. America, try to hide<br />
 
The emptiness that's you inside<br />
 
But once you find that the way you lied<br />
 
And all the corny tricks you've tried<br />
 
Will not forestall the rising tide of<br />
 
Hungry freaks, daddy
 
  
They won't go for no more<br />
 
Great, big Western hardware store<br />
 
Philosophy that turns away<br />
 
From those who aren't afraid to say<br />
 
What's on their minds<br />
 
The left-behinds<br />
 
Of the great society
 
  
Hungry freaks, daddy
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===''The MOFO Project/Object'' Version===
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - San Francisco)]]
  
Mr. America, walk on by<br />
 
Your supermarket dream<br />
 
Mr. America, walk on by<br />
 
The liquor store supreme<br />
 
Mr. America, try to hide<br />
 
The product of your savage pride<br />
 
The useful minds that it denied<br />
 
The day you shrugged and stepped aside<br />
 
You saw their clothes and then you cried,<br />
 
"Those hungry freaks, daddy"
 
  
They won't go for no more<br />
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===''Electric Aunt Jemima'' Version===
Great, big Western hardware store<br />
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1968 - Denver)]]
Philosophy that turns away<br />
 
From those who aren't afraid to say<br />
 
What's on their minds<br />
 
The left-behinds<br />
 
Of the great society
 
  
==Players On This Song==
 
[[Freak Out!|FREAK OUT!]] version
 
* [[Frank Zappa]] - guitar & vocals
 
* [[Ray Collins]] - lead vocalist, harmonica, tambourine, finger cymbals, bobby pin & tweezers
 
* [[Jimmy Carl Black]] - drums (also sings in some foreign language)
 
* [[Roy Estrada]] - bass & guitarron; boy soprano
 
* [[Elliot Ingber]] - alternate lead & rhythm guitar with clear white light
 
  
==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
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===''Unmitigated Audacity'' Version===
===Singles===
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1974 - South Bend)]]
===Zappa Albums & Side Projects===
 
'''[[:Category:Original Albums|Original Albums]]'''
 
* [[Freak Out!]] (1966)
 
* [[The MOFO Project/Object]] (2006)
 
'''[[:Category:Beat The Boots|Beat The Boots]]'''
 
* [[Electric Aunt Jemima (BTB)]] (1992)
 
* [[Unmitigated Audacity (BTB)]] (1991)
 
'''[[:Category:Compilations|Compilations]]'''
 
* [[Mothermania]] (1969)
 
* [[Zappa En La Radio]] (1998)
 
'''[[:Category:Unauthorized Compilations|Unauthorized Compilations]]'''
 
* [[Frank Zappa y The Mothers of Invention]] (1972) ~ "Azotados Habrientos Papi"
 
* [[Pop History Volume 11]] (1972)
 
* [[Pop History Volume 14]] (1972)
 
* [[Pop History Volume 6]] (1972)
 
* [[Pop History Volume 7]] (1972)
 
* [[Preg-Nant]] (1972)
 
* [[Superstarshine Volume 13: The Mothers of Invention]] (1972)
 
* [[Pop Giants Volume 27: The Mothers of Invention Starring Frank Zappa]] (1973)
 
'''[[:Category:Samplers & Promos|Samplers & Promos]]'''
 
* [[April '88 Sampler]] (1988)
 
* [[No Commercial Potential (The Sampler)|No Commercial Potential]] (1995)
 
* [[Return Of The Son Of Kill Ugly Radio]] (1996)
 
'''[[:Category:Special Editions|Special Editions]]'''
 
* [[The Old Masters, Box I]] (1985)
 
* [[Threesome No. 1]] (2002)
 
'''[[:Category:Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous]]'''
 
* [[Battle of Eric Burdon & the Animals and the Mothers of Invention]] (?)
 
 
 
===Tribute & Cover Albums===
 
*[[Meridian Arts Ensemble]]: [[Ear Mind I]]
 
 
 
==Notes About This Song==
 
 
 
FZ liner notes on "[[Freak Out!]]" (1966): "'[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy]]' was written for [[Carl Franzoni|Carl Orestes Franzoni]]. He is freaky down to his toe nails. Some day he will live next door to you and your lawn will die. Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget bout the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute."
 
 
 
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==
 
 
 
[[Category:Tracks]]
 

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