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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<br />
 
Your schools that do not teach<br />
 
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 />
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===''The MOFO Project/Object'' Version===
Great, big Western hardware store<br />
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - San Francisco)]]
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
 
  
Mr. America, walk on by<br />
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===''Electric Aunt Jemima'' Version===
Your supermarket dream<br />
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1968 - Denver)]]
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 />
 
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
 
  
==Players On This Song==
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===''Unmitigated Audacity'' Version===
 
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*[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1974 - South Bend)]]
==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