Chord Req: songsheet for VALLEY GIRL(Frank Zappa)

Subject: Chord Req: songsheet for VALLET GIRL (Frank Zappa)
From: GUEST,Baywood Ukulele Social Club
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 08:54 PM

Baywood Ukulele Social Club looking for songsheet with chords and lyrics for VALLEY GIRL (Frank Zappa)

Subject: RE: Chord Req: songsheet for VALLEY GIRL(Frank Zappa)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 10:01 PM

I'm not sure if it's proper to refer to the singer as Moon Zappa, or Moon Unit Zappa. She was 14 years old at the time. The 1982 song has a Wikipedia page. I don't known that Moon actually sings anything on the recording - she just says things that girls from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles would say at the time...and they were things that were definitely worthy of ridicule, but often could be interesting and even poetic. The center of "Valley Girl" talk was California State University at Northridge. I kinda freaked out when I met some girls from South Central who were going to Northridge and talking Valley Girl. Seemed like the South Central girls would have better off being proud of where they came from, since "Valley Girl" talk was often associated with the term "airhead."
Whatever the case, it was an interesting phenomenon that a certain way of talking would develop in such a specific area as the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and only among girls. My own daughter picked up aspects of that way of talking in Sacramento. Not my sons, though.
Here's the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM

Er, gag me with a spoon....barf me out.

Subject: ADDPOP: VALLEY GIRL(Frank Zappa)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 10:49 PM

I've often relied on azlyrics.com for lyrics, despite my hesitations. Their lyrics for this song are at https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/frankzappa/valleygirl.html

VALLEY GIRL
(Frank Zappa, with Moon Unit Zappa, 1982)

Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store

Like, OH MY GOD! (Valley Girl)
Like-TOTALLY (Valley Girl)
Enchino is like SO BITCHEN (Valley Girl)
There's like the Galleria (Valley Girl)
And like all these like really great shoe stores
I love going into like clothing stores and stuff
I like buy the neatest mini-skirts and stufl
It's like so BITCHEN cuz like everybody's like
Super-super nice...
It's like so BITCHEN...

On Ventura, there she goes
She just bought some bitchen clothes
Tosses her head 'n flips her hair
She got a whole bunch of nothin' in there

Anyway, he goes are you into S and M?
I go, oh RIGHT...
Could you like just picture me in like a LEATHER TEDDY
Yeah right, HURT ME. HURT ME...
I'm sure! NO WAY'
He was like freaking me out...
He called me a BEASTIE...
That's cuz like he was totally BLITZED
He goes like BAG YOUR FACE'
I'm sure!

Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay. fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet 'n pure
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet'n pure
It's really sad (Valley Girl)
Like my English teacher
He's like... (Valley Girl)
He's like Mr. BU-FU (Valley Girl)
We're talking Lord God King BU-FU (Valley Girl)
I am SO SURE
He's like so GROSS
He like sits there and like plays with all his rings
And he like flirts with all the guys in the class
It's like totally disgusting
I'm like so sure
It's like BARF ME OUT...
Gag me with a spoon!

Last idea to cross her mind
Had something to do with where to find
A pair of jeans to fit her butt
And where to get her toenails cut

So like I go into this like salon place, y'know
And I wanted like to get my toenails done
And the lady like goes, oh my God, your toenails
Are like so GRODY
It was like really embarassing
She's like OH MY GOD, like BAG THOSE TOENAILS
I'm like sure...
She goes, uh, I don't know if I can handle this, y'know.
I was like really embarassed...

Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure

Like my mother is like a total space cadet (Valley Girl)
She like makes me do the dishes and (Valley Girl)
CLEAN the cat box (Valley Girl)
I am sure
That's like GROSS (Valley Girl)
BARF OUT' (Valley Girl)
OH MY GOD (Valley Girl

Hi!
Uh-huh... (Valley Girl)
My name?
My name is Ondrya Wolfson (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh
That's right, Ondrya (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh .
I know (Valley Girl)
It's like...
I do not talk funny...
I'm sure (Valley Girl)
Whatsa matter with the way I talk? (Valley Girl)
I am a VAL, I know
But I live in like in a really good part of Encino so it's okay (Valley Girl)
So like, I don't know
I'm like freaking out totally
Oh my God!

Hi - I have to go to the orthodontist
I'm getting my braces off, y'know
But I have to wear a retainer
That's going to be really like a total bummer
I'm freaking out
I'm SURE
Like those things that like stick in your mouth
They're so gross...
You like get saliva all over them
But like, I don't know, it's going to be cool


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM


...and if you don't find elements of folklore in this, you're missing something.

-Joe-

Subject: ADDPOP: Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Feb 20 - 03:32 PM

Someone expressed dismay at my posting the lyrics of "Valley Girl." Since I worked in LA in the Age of the Valley Girl, I always kinda liked that song. And here's another Zappa favorite. I think his humor is terrific, right up there with Weird Al and Spike Jones.

Thread #77849   Message #1393962
Posted By: Joe Offer
31-Jan-05 - 01:59 AM
Thread Name: Song challenge: If caught in a snow drift...
Subject: ADDPOP: Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Well, I suppose it doesn't meet the song challenge, but this song has never, ever been posted at Mudcat, as far as I can determine. It makes me wonder, though, if the St. Bernard dogs would drink the brandy in the keg and then pee it on the avalanche victims...
Don't go there, Joe.
-Joe Offer-

DON'T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW
(Frank Zappa, of blessed memory)

Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero...

And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Don't be a naughty eskimo
Save your money, don't go to the show

Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow

Subject: RE: Chord Req: songsheet for VALLEY GIRL(Frank Zappa)
From: Nick
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 04:14 PM

I still have my (mono) copy of We’re Only In It For the Money which has some great lyrics on it. And it’s signed by Jimmy Carl Black after he played a gig locally with a blues guitarist (Mick Pini). I took it along specially.

And another highlight from Zappa are the harmonies on Happy Together on the live Fillmore album.

And he’s not a bad guitarist sometimes