| "America Drinks & Goes Home" | |
|---|---|
| Song by the Mothers of Invention | |
| from the album Absolutely Free | |
| Released | 1967 |
| Length | 2:45 |
| Label | Verve |
| Songwriter(s) | Frank Zappa |
"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 .
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 Cinema in Greenwich Village in New York City during 1967. [1] [2] [3] [4]
