America Drinks & Goes Home

"America Drinks & Goes Home" is a song written by Frank Zappa and recorded in November 1966 and released in 1967 on the Mothers of Invention album Absolutely Free.

"America Drinks & Goes Home"
Song by the Mothers of Invention
from the album Absolutely Free
Released1967
Length2:45
LabelVerve
Songwriter(s)Frank Zappa

The song appears in two different versions on the album at the beginning of side 2 under the title "America Drinks" and finishing at the end of side 2 under the title "America Drinks & Goes Home".

In between these songs is a sequence containing "Status Back Baby", "Uncle Bernie's Farm", "Son of Suzy Creamcheese" and "Brown Shoes Don't Make It". Zappa's title for the entire piece was "Suite No. 2: The M.O.I. American Pageant (2nd in a Series of Underground Oratorios)". The piece was performed many times during the Mothers of Invention residency at the Garrick Theater in Greenwich Village in New York City during 1967.[1][2][3][4]

References
  1. "America Drinks & Goes Home". last.fm. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  2. Couture, François. "America Drinks and Goes Home". allmusic.com. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  3. "America Drinks & Goes Home". arf.ru. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  4. "Absolutely Free". Amazon. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
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