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Song title:      Dancin' Fool
Original Album:	 Sheik Yerbouti

Words and Music by Frank Zappa
Copyright © 1979 Munchkin Music, ASCAP, Worldwide
Published by Barking Pumpkin Records

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4 except where indicated.


INTRO:
Notes:
The A chords are sustained over two measures.

[play: INTRO Figure]  [x4]

INTRO Figure

  A
|-5_________________________________________________________------|
|-5_________________________________________________________------|
|-6_________________________________________________________------|
|-7_________________________________________________________------|
|-7_________________________________________________________------|
|-5_________________________________________________________------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE1:
Notes:
There are no strummed guitar chords but the piano plays these chords as
eighth-notes.
A7/6 is the U.S. notation for A7add6 (used here for convenience).

Chords:
A7   x02223 or 575685    D  x57775 and 10 12 12 11 10 10
A    x02220 or 577655    C  x35553 and 8 10 10 988
A7/6 x02022 or 575675    G  355433 
D5   xx023x or x577xx

  A7                    A               A7             A
I don't know much about dancin', that's why I got this song
A7                A                          A7/6                 D5
One of my legs is shorter than the other 'n' both of my feets too long
D                       A           C              G
'Course now right along with 'em, I got no natural rhythm

    G            A            C                      D
But I go dancin' ev'ry night, hopin' one day I might get it right


CHORUS1:
Chords:
C# x46664
B  x24442
F# 244322

      C#         B    F#  C#           B    F#  C#
I'm a    dancin' foo______ool, dancin' foo______ool
      C#         B    F#  C#         C#        B    F#  C#
I'm a    dancin' foo______ool, I'm a   dancin' foo______ool


6/4
[Spoken:]
  B
I hear that beat; I jump outta my seat, but I can't compete, 'cause I'm a...

4/4
C#        B    F#  C#         C#        B    F#  C#
  dancin' foo______ool, I'm a   dancin' foo______ool


[play: | A |]  [x2] [sustained as in INTRO Figure]


VERSE2:
Chords:
A7   x02223 or 575685    D  x57775
A    x02220 or 577655    C  x35553
A7/6 x02022 or 575675    G  355433
D5   xx023x or x577xx

    A7              A          A7                A
The disco folks all dressed up like theys fit to kill
  A7             A                    A7/6            D5
I walk on in 'n' see 'em there, gonna give them all a thrill
D                A       C               G
When they see me comin', they all steps aside
     G               A           C         D
They has a fit while I commit my social suicide...


CHORUS2:
Chords:
C# x46664
B  x24442
F# 244322

      C#        B    F#  C#             B    F#  C#
I'm a   dancin' foo______ool,   dancin' foo______ool
      C#        B    F#  C#             B    F#  C#
I'm a   dancin' foo______ool,   dancin' foo______ool


N.C.
The beat goes on and I'm so wrong
The beat goes on and I'm so wrong
The beat goes on and I'm so wrong

    B
The beat goes on 'n' I'm so wrong
The beat goes on 'n' I'm so wrong
The beat goes on 'n' I'm so wrong
The beat goes on 'n' I'm so wrong

                                  C#         B    F#  C#
I may be totally wrong, but I'm a    dancin' foo______ool,
                                  C#         B    F#  C#
I may be totally wrong, but I'm a    dancin' foo______ool,


[Interlude:]

Yowsa, yowsa, yowsa


VERSE3:
Notes:
Sung at half-speed.

Chords:
A7   x02223 or 575685    D  x57775
A    x02220 or 577655    C  x35553
A7/6 x02022 or 575675    G  355433
D5   xx023x or x577xx

  A7           A                  A7             A
I got it all together now with my very own disco clothes, hey!
   A7                   A                         A7/6            D5
My shirt's half open, t'show you my chain 'n' the spoon for up my nose
D           A                 C                  G
I am really somethin', that's what you'd prob'ly say
   G                        A
So smoke your little smoke, drink your little drink
        C                D
While I dance the night away


CHORUS3:
Chords:
C# x46664
B  x24442
F# 244322

      C#         B    F#  C#         C#         B    F#  C#
I'm a    dancin' foo______ool, I'm a    dancin' foo______ool
      C#         B    F#  C#         C#         B    F#  C#
I'm a    dancin' foo______ool, I'm a    dancin' foo______ool

                                  C#         B    F#  C#
I may be totally wrong, but I'm a    dancin' foo______ool,
                                  C#         B    F#  C#
I may be totally wrong, but I'm a    dancin' foo______ool,
                                  B
I may be totally wrong, but I'm a FOOL-uh!


OUTRO:

[Spoken:]

Hey darlin'...can I buy ya a coupla drinks?

Lookin' for Mister Goodbar? Here he is...

Wait a minute...I've got it...You're an Italian!

Huh...? You're Jewish?

Oh, love your nails... You must be a Libra... Your place or mine?