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Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown Goes Down (live)

Bobby Brown or Bobby Brown (Goes Down) is a song by Frank Zappa released on his album Sheik Yerbouti in 1979. One of his best known songs, it was hugely successful in Europe.

The song describes a wealthy, misogynist student named Bobby Brown, "the cutest boy in town", whose life is the archetypical American Dream until a traumatic sexual encounter with "Freddie", a lesbian involved in the women's liberation movement, leaves him questioning his sexuality. He eventually realizes that he is gay and by the end of the song is a self-described "sexual spastic" involved in golden showers and S&M, for which he thanks Fred. This song was more successful in Europe than America and this is why it is only featured on the vinyl and European CD version of Zappa's best of Strictly Commercial.

The lyrics:

Hey there, people, Im bobby brown

They say Im the cutest boy in town

My car is fast, my teeth is shiney

I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie

Tiny heinie ho!

Here I am at a famous school

Im dressin sharp

Im actin cool

I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper

Let her do all the work n maybe later I'll rape her

Oh God I am the american dream

I do not think Im too extreme

An Im a handsome sonofabitch

Im gonna get a new glove n be real rich

Get a good, get a good, get a good, get a good job...

Womens liberation

Came creepin all across the nation

I tell you people, I was not ready

When I fucked this dyke by the name of freddie

She made a little speech then,

Aw, she tried to make me say when

She had my balls in a vice, but she left the dick

I guess it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick

Oh God I am the american dream,

But now I smell like vaseline

An Im a miserable sonofabitch

Am I a boy or a lady...i don't know which

I wonder...wonder...hi-ho silver!...

So I went out n bought me a leisure mask

I jingle my change, but Im still kinda cute

Got a job doin radio promo

An none of the jocks even think about tonso

Eventually me n a friend

Sorta drifted along into s&m

I can take about an hour on the tower of power

Long as I gets a little golden shower

Oh God I am the american dream

With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream

An I'll do anything to get ahead

Hi-ho silver!

Oh god, oh god, Im so fantastic!

Hi-ho silver!

And my name is bobby brown

And my name is bobby brown

Hi-ho silver!

Way!

And my name is bobby brown

Hi-ho silver!

Oh, never mind...

The name of this song is: keep it greasey