You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 1

Tryin' To Grow A Chin

February 18, 1979, 3:44 min.

Location: Odeon Hammersmith, London

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Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Ike Willis (guitar, vocals)
Denny Walley (slide guitar, vocals)
Warren Cucurullo (guitar)
Tommy Mars (keyboards, vocals)
Peter Wolf (keyboards)
Ed Mann (percussion)
Arthur Barrow (bass)
Vinnie Colaiuta (drums)

Hey! I'm only fourteen
Sickly 'n' thin
Tried all of my life
Just to grow me a chin
It popped out once, yeah
But my dad pushed it in
Tell me: why did he hurt me?
Lord, he's my next of kin...
He's a mex-i-kin
I'm lonely 'n' green;
Too small for my shirt
If Simmons was here
I could feature my hurt
Scared of the future
An' I hope I don't grow
Hey listen!
I know nobody likes me
'Cause everywhere I go
They say NO
They say NO
They say NO
They say NO

Now that I'm older
I got a place in the town, babe
I got a chin on my shoulder
'N' it keeps growing down, down, down
I'm scared of the future
'N' I wish I was dead
(Mattie told Hattie...)
I gotta be dead instead
I gotta be dead instead
Now dig this:

I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me
(Mattie told Hattie...)
I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me
I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me
I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me
I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me
I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me

One more time for the world!

I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me
I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me
I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me
I wanna be dead
In bed
Please kill me
'Cause that would thrill me

I'm horny 'n lonely too!

Mattie told Hattie about a thing she saw...


Other album(s) in which song has appeared:
Sheik Yerbouti (March 3, 1979, 3:31)
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 6 (Halloween, 1977, 3:33)
Läther (September 1996, 3:26)


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