America Drinks And Goes Home
by Frank Zappa

Arranged by Mark Hawling
Email : mhawling@hotmail.com 

This is a solo guitar arrangement of this song derived from the piano arrangement
in the "Frank Zappa Songbook Vol1". That arrangement followed the Absolutely Free 
version very closely. This is pretty tricky as the melody has a triplet
feel while the bass has an even eighth note type feel also some of the chords require
some rapid changes of nasty fingerings.

To learn play the upper registers along with the melody. Then play the bass notes
along with the bassline on the record and the changes. Then when you know both
combine them.

The bar lines represent the actual barlines in the song. Arpegiate the few chords marked.

I might try and create a midi file and put it up or alternatively a soundfile of it being played.

Intro
                                                                        
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13--13--13--13--13--13--13--13--13--10----------------------------------
-----------------------------------------12--9--------------------------
10--10--10--10--10--10--10--10-----------------12--11--10---------------
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||------------------------|--------------------|--0--------------|------
||---------3-----------3--|--2--------------2--|--1--10--10------|------
||*--------3-----3-----3--|--2--3-----2--3--2--|--2--9---9---10--|------
||*--------3-----3-----3--|--2--------2-----2--|--3----------10--|------
||---------5--------5-----|-----4--------4-----|-----------------|------
||------3-----3-----------|--2-----2-----------|--1--8---8-------|------
                                                                        

                                                                        
------------|--3-----------|-----------7--------|-----------------------
5-----------|--0-----------|-----3--------8-----|-----------------------
5-----------|--2-----------|-----4-----------9--|-----------------------
7-----------|--1-----------|-----5-----0--------|-----------------------
8-----------|--2-----------|-----5-----7--------|-----------------------
------------|-----------7--|--0--------7--------|-----------------------
                                                                        

   arpeg                                                                         
-----4------7----------|--2--2h3h44h5--2----------------|---------------
----5-------8--8-------|--2---------------3-------------|---------------
6--6-----------9---9---|--2-----------------4p3p2-------|---------------
5-----------9------10--|--0-----------------------------|---------------
5--------------10--7---|--------------------------------|---------------
0----------------------|--------------------------------|---------------
                                                                        

 s                 s                                                      
4/5------10-------x\|--------------------------|--------------------|----
----------------- x\|------11-------9------11--|--6--------4-----6--|----
1/2---------------x\|------11-------9------11--|--5--5-----5-----5--|----
------------------x\|------11-------9------11--|--8--4--------------|----
--------------------|----------13------10------|--6-----6-----3-----|----
---------10---------|--11----------------------|--------------------|----
                                                                        
                         1st time 
                                                                        
------------------7--||--4--5---------|-------------------------|--------
------------6-----8--||--5--5---------|---------8---11------15--|--------
5--------7--7--------||--5--5---------|-----8---8---12------15--|--------
5-----5--8-----------||-----4---------|-----8-------------------|--------
------7--------7-----||--5------------|-----10--10------13------|--------
5--------8-----------||--------10--9--|--8------11--------------|--------
                                                                        

            s                                             back to beginning           
-----------x\---20----------|--------4--8--|----------x\-----||---------
12--13-----x\-----20--------|-----6--6--9--|--10--11--x\-----||---------
12--10-----x\-------17------|--6--6--------|--10--11--x\----*||---------
12--------------------------|--6-----------|--10--11--------*||---------
----12----------------------|--------------|------9----------||---------
13--11----------------------|--6-----------|--11--10----10---||---------
                                                                        
and on second time through
       s                                                                 
4--5----|--0--------------|--0--------------|---------------------------
5--5----|--1--------------|--0-----1--3--1--|---------------------------
5--5----|--2-----9--7--5--|--1-----1--4--1--|---------------------------
---4----|--3--------------|--3-----3--5--3--|---------------------------
5-----5\|--------7--5--3--|--2--------------|---------------------------
--------|--1--------------|--3-----3--------|---------------------------
                                                                        
     artifical harmonics
arpeg                                                                        
3---------------------15--18--||----------------------------------------
5-----------------17----------||----------------------------------------
4-------------16--------------||----------------------------------------
5---------17------------------||----------------------------------------
3-----15----------------------||----------------------------------------
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