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Artist/Band: Frank Zappa
Lyrics for Song: Joe's Garage
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Frank Zappa



IT WASN'T VERY LARGE
THERE WAS JUST ENOUGH ROOM TO CRAM THE
DRUMS
IN THE CORNER OVER BY THE DODGE
IT WAS A FIFTY-FOUR
WITH A MASHED UP DOOR
AND A CHEESY LITTLE AMP
WITH A SIGH ON THE FRONT SAID "GENDER CHAMP"
AND A SECOND HAND GUITAR
IT WAS A STRATOCASTER WITH A WHAMMY BAR

WE COULD JAM IN JOE'S GARAGE
HIS MAMA WAS SCREAMING, HIS DAD WAS MAD
WE WAS PLAYING THE SAME OLD SONG
IN THE AFTERNOON AND SOMETIMES WE WOULD
PLAY IT ALL NIGHT LONG
IT WAS ALL WE KNOW AND EASY TOO
SO WE WOULDN'T GET IT WRONG
ALL WE DID WAS BEND THE STRING LIKE... HEY!

DOWN IN JOES GARAGE
WE DIDN'T HAVE NO DOPE OR LSD
BUT A COUPLA QUARTSA BEER
WOULD FIX IT SO THE INTONATION WOULD
NOT OFFEND YER EAR
AND THE SAME OLD CHORDS GOING OVER AND OVER
BECAME A SYMPHONY
WE WOULD PLAY IT AGAIN N AGAIN AND AGAIN
CAUSE IT SOUNDED GOOD TO ME
ONE MORE TIME

WE COULD JAM IN JOE'S GARAGE
HIS MAMA WAS SCREAMING "TURN IT DOWN"
WE WAS PLAYING THE SAME OLD SONG
IN THE AFTERNOON AND SOMETIMES WE WOULD
PLAY IT ALL NIGHT LONG
IT WAS ALL WE KNOW AND EASY TOO
SO WE WOULDN'T GET IT WRONG
EVEN IF YOU PLAYED IT ON THE SAXOPHONE

WE THOUGHT WE WAS PRETTY GOOD
WE TALKED ABOUT KEEPING THE BAND TOGETHER
AND WE FIGURED THAT WE SHOULD
CAUSE ABOUT THIS TIME WE WAS GETTING THE EYE
FROM THE GIRLS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
THEY'D ALL COME OVER AND DANCE AROUND LIKE...

SO WE PICKED OUT A STUPID NAME
HAD SOME CARDS PRINTED UP FOR A COUPLA BUCKS
AND WE WAS ON OUR WAY TO FAME
GOT MATCHING SUITS AND BEATLES BOOTS
AND A SIGH ON THE BACK OF THE CAR
AND WE WAS READY TO WORK IN A GO-GO BAR
"ONE TWO THREE FOUR, LETS SEE IF YOU GOT SOME
MORE

PEOPLE SEEMED TO LIKE OUR SONG
THEY GOT UP AND DANCED AND MAKE A LOT A
NOISE
AND IT WASN'T 'FORE VERY LONG
A GUY FROM A COMPANY WE CAN'T NAME
SAID WE OUGHT TO TAKE HIS PEN
AND SIGN ON THE LINE FOR A REAL GOOD TIME
BUT HE DIDN'T TELL US WHEN
THESE "GOOD TIMES" WOULD BE SOMETHING'
THAT WAS REALLY HAPPENING
SO THE BAND BROKE UP , AND IT LOOKS LIKE
WE WILL NEVER PLAY AGAIN

GUESS YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE IN LIFE
TO PLAY A SONG THAT GOES LIKE . . .

"TURN IT DOWN
I HAVE CHILDREN SLEEPING HERE"

WELL THE YEARS WAS ROLLING BY
HEAVY METAL AND GLITTER ROCK
HAD CAUGHT THE PUBLIC EYE
SNOTTY BOY WITH LIPSTICK ON
WAS REALLY FLYING HIGH
AND THEN THEY GOT THAT DISCO THING
AND NEW WAVE CAME ALONG
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I THOUGHT THE TIME
HAD COME FOR THAT OLD SONG
WE USED TO PLAY IN JOE'S GARAGE
AND IF I AM NOT WRONG
YOU WILL SOON BE DANCING TO . . .

WELL THE YEARS WAS ROLLING BY . . .


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Frank Zappa


Frank Zappa
"Other Songs - Frank Zappa"


1. 50/50
2. Baby Snakes
3. Dinah-Moe-Humm
4. Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
5. Eat The Yellow Snow (Pt 2)
6. Excentrifugal Forz
7. Father O'Blivion
8. Frank Zappa
9. Harder That Your Husband
10. Heavenly Bank Account
11. I Have Been In You
12. Joe's Garage
13. Joes Garage
14. Magic Fingers
15. Mom & Dad
16. Montana
17. Motherly Love
18. Oh No!
19. Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
20. Stink Foot
21. Tinseltown Rebellion
22. Uncle Remus
23. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
24. Zomby Woof
25. I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
26. Motorhead's Midnight Ranch
27. A Few Moments With Brother A. West
28. A Kayak ( On Snow )
29. Advance Romance (in album You Can't Do That On Sta
30. Babbette
31. Brown Moses
32. Carol, You Fool
33. Chana In De Bushwop
34. Cocaine decisions(in album You Can't Do That On St
35. Courduroy ponce
36. Cucamonga
37. Dental Floss Tycoon
38. Dew on the newts we got
39. Diseases of the band
40. Drowning Witch - in album you can't do that on sta
41. Fifty - Fifty
42. Flowing Inside - Out
43. I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back
44. It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal
45. N - Lite
46. Nig Biz
47. Oh - Umm
48. Once Upon A Time
49. Penis dimension
50. Ride My Face To Chicago
51. Ruthie - Ruthie
52. Satumaa
53. Sweet Leilani
54. The Groupie Routine
55. This Is Phaze I I I
56. Tush Tush Tush
57. Undaunted Band Plays On
58. Valarie
59. We Gotta Get Into Something Real