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Call Any Vegetable Tabs

(ver. 1)
Frank Zappa
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                               CALL ANY VEGETABLE
                           As recorded by Frank Zappa
                     (From the 1967 Album ABSOLUTELY FREE )

Words and Music by Frank Zappa
Arranged by Frank Zappa

Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Trumpet'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Flute'
Gtr III (E A D G B E) - 'Overdriven Guitar '
Gtr IV (E A D G B E) - 'Clean Guitar'
Gtr V (E A D G B E) - 'Acoustic Guitar'

 Intro Spoken     Verse 1
  Q=138
  N.C.
 6/4              4/4
  Gtr II
  W.               Q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S
|---------------||----10-10-10-9-9-9-9-9-(9)-7----|
|---------------||-----------------------------10-|
|---------------||--------------------------------|
|---------------||--------------------------------|
|---------------||--------------------------------|
|---------------||--------------------------------|
|
| Gtr I
| W.               Q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S
|---------------||--------------------------------|
|---------------||--------------------------------|
|---------------||-----7--7--7-6-6-6-6-6-(6)-4----|
|---------------||------------------------------7-|
|---------------||--------------------------------|
|---------------||--------------------------------|


    q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S   8x
||--7--10-10-10-9-9-9-9-9-(9)-7------||
||o-----------------------------10--o||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------o||
||-----------------------------------||
|
|   q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S   8x
||-----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------o||
||--4---7--7--7-6-6-6-6-6-(6)-4------||
||-------------------------------7---||
||o---------------------------------o||
||-----------------------------------||


                                      Chorus 1
                                       Q=128
  N.C.
 5/4                                  4/4
  q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S q      E  E  E  E  E  E  S  S  E    q  H.
|-7--10-10-10-9-9-9-9-9-(9)-7----7--||-------12-12-10-10----------|-----------|
|-----------------------------10----||-10-10-------------12-10----|-10--------|
|-----------------------------------||-------------------------12-|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|
|                                      Gtrs I, III
| q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S q      E  E  E  E  E  E  S  S  E    q  H.
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|-4---7--7--7-6-6-6-6-6-(6)-4----4--||--------9--9--7--7----------|-----------|
|------------------------------7----||--7--7--------------9--7----|--7--------|
|-----------------------------------||-------------------------10-|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|


  N.C.
   |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|
   E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E
|-------17-------17-------17----------|
|-18h19----18h19----18h19----19-17----|
|----------------------------------19-|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|
| Gtr IV
|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|
|  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E
|-------------------------------------|
|-------10-------10-------10----------|
|-10h11----10h11----10h11----11--9----|
|----------------------------------12-|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|
| Gtrs I, III
|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|
|  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2-|
|-------------------------------------|


                           Interlude Spoken
                Q=80        H=H
                           6/4
   q  H.        W           W.
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-16----------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|
|                           Gtrs III, IV
|  q  H.        W           e  W        Q.
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|--9----------|----------||-7-----------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|
|                           Gtr I
|  q  H.        W           e  W        Q.
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||
|--2----------|----------||-0-----------------||
|-------------|----------||-------------------||


 Verse 2
  Q=138
  N.C.
 4/4
  Q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S     q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S  8x
|----10-10-10-9-9-9-9-9-(9)-7----||--7--10-10-10-9-9-9-9-9-(9)-7-----||
|-----------------------------10-||o-----------------------------10-o||
|--------------------------------||----------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||----------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||o--------------------------------o||
|--------------------------------||----------------------------------||
|
| Gtr I
| Q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S     q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S  8x
|--------------------------------||----------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||o--------------------------------o||
|-----7--7--7-6-6-6-6-6-(6)-4----||--4---7--7--7-6-6-6-6-6-(6)-4-----||
|------------------------------7-||-------------------------------7--||
|--------------------------------||o--------------------------------o||
|--------------------------------||----------------------------------||


                                      Chorus 2
                                       Q=128
 5/4                                  4/4
  q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S q      E  E  E  E  E  E  S  S  E    q  H.
|-7--10-10-10-9-9-9-9-9-(9)-7----7--||-------12-12-10-10----------|-----------|
|-----------------------------10----||-10-10-------------12-10----|-10--------|
|-----------------------------------||-------------------------12-|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|
|                                      Gtrs I, III
| q   S  S  S E S S S S  S  S  S q      E  E  E  E  E  E  S  S  E    q  H.
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|
|-4---7--7--7-6-6-6-6-6-(6)-4----4--||--------9--9--7--7----------|-----------|
|------------------------------7----||--7--7--------------9--7----|--7--------|
|-----------------------------------||-------------------------10-|-----------|
|-----------------------------------||----------------------------|-----------|


                                       6/4               4/4
   |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|
   E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E    q  W        Q    W
|-------17-------17-------17----------|-----------------|------||
|-18h19----18h19----18h19----19-17----|-----------------|------||
|----------------------------------19-|-16--------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|
| Gtr IV
|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|
|  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E    q  W        Q    W
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|-------10-------10-------10----------|-----------------|------||
|-10h11----10h11----10h11----11--9----|-----------------|------||
|----------------------------------12-|--9--------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|
| Gtrs I, III
|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|
|  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E    q  W        Q    W
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||
|--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2-|--2--------------|------||
|-------------------------------------|-----------------|------||


 "Rutabaga"    Interlude Spoken 2
  H.=H          Q=104
                C           G         C          G
               3/4
                Gtr IV
  Wx5           Q  Q  Q     q  H      Q  Q  Q    q  H
|------------||----3-----||---------|----3-----|---------||
|------------||-5-----5--||-3-------|-5-----5--|-3-------||
|------------||----------||---------|----------|---------||
|------------||----------||---------|----------|---------||
|------------||----------||---------|----------|---------||
|------------||----------||---------|----------|---------||


   Verse 3
    C                       G
     E    E   E  E  E  E     E   E   E   E  E  E  4x
||---------------------4-||--2--------------------||
||o--5----4---5--4--5----||------2---2---3--3----o||
||-----------------------||--------------------3--||
||-----------------------||-----------------------||
||o----------------------||----------------------o||
||-----------------------||-----------------------||
|
|   Gtr II
|    E    E   E  E  E  E     E   E   E   E  E  E  4x
||-----------------------||-----13----------------||
||o-13-------13----------||--------(14)-15-------o||
||------(12)----13-14-15-||-16-------------15-16--||
||-----------------------||-----------------------||
||o----------------------||----------------------o||
||-----------------------||-----------------------||
|
|   Gtr V
|    H.                      H.                   4x
||---0-------------------||--3--------------------||
||o--1-------------------||--3-------------------o||
||---0-------------------||--0--------------------||
||---2-------------------||--0--------------------||
||o--3-------------------||--2-------------------o||
||---3-------------------||--3--------------------||


      Bb                     F
       E    E   E  E  E  E    E   E   E   E  E  E  4x
|-||---------------------2-|-----------------------||
|-||o--3----2---3--2--3----|--4---0---0---1--1----o||
|-||-----------------------|--------------------1--||
|-||-----------------------|-----------------------||
|-||o----------------------|----------------------o||
|-||-----------------------|-----------------------||
|
|      E    E   E  E  E  E    E   E   E   E  E  E  4x
|-||-----------------------|-----11----------------||
|-||o-11-------11----------|--------(12)-13-------o||
|-||------(10)----11-12-13-|-14-------------13-14--||
|-||-----------------------|-----------------------||
|-||o----------------------|----------------------o||
|-||-----------------------|-----------------------||
|
|      H.                     H.                   4x
|-||---1-------------------|--1--------------------||
|-||o--3-------------------|--1-------------------o||
|-||---3-------------------|--2--------------------||
|-||---3-------------------|--3--------------------||
|-||o--1-------------------|--3-------------------o||
|-||---1-------------------|--1--------------------||


                            1.,2.,3.,4.,5.
    A                       E
     E   E   E   E   E  E    E   E  E  E  E   E   6x
||------------------------|------------0----------||
||o--2---1---2------------|--2---3--4-----2------o||
||---------------2---3--4-|-------------------2---||
||------------------------|-----------------------||
||o-----------------------|----------------------o||
||------------------------|-----------------------||
|
|    E   E   E   E   E  E    E   E  E  E  E   E   6x
||------------------------|-----------------------||
||o-10------10------------|--------11-12-13-(14)-o||
||------(9)----(10)-11-12-|-13--14----------------||
||------------------------|-----------------------||
||o-----------------------|----------------------o||
||------------------------|-----------------------||
|
|    H.                      H.                   6x
||---0--------------------|--0--------------------||
||o--2--------------------|--0-------------------o||
||---2--------------------|--1--------------------||
||---2--------------------|--2--------------------||
||o--0--------------------|--2-------------------o||
||---0--------------------|--0--------------------||


 Outro
  6.138
  B
    Q   Q  Q        Q   Q  Q   7x
|-------------||---------------||
|-------------||o-------------o||
|---4---4--4--||----4---4--4---||
|---4---4--4--||----4---4--4---||
|-------------||o-------------o||
|-------------||---------------||
|
|   H.             +H.         7x
|-------------||---------------||
|-(12)--------||o-(12)--------o||
|-------------||---------------||
|-------------||---------------||
|-------------||o-------------o||
|-------------||---------------||
|
|   Q   Q  Q        Q   Q  Q   7x
|---2---2--2--||----2---2--2---||
|---4---4--4--||o---4---4--4--o||
|---4---4--4--||----4---4--4---||
|---4---4--4--||----4---4--4---||
|---2---2--2--||o---2---2--2--o||
|---2---2--2--||----2---2--2---||


Duration Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for.  Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests.  Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for.  Low
melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature Legend
----------------
 h   - hammer-on
 p   - pull-off
 b   - bend
 pb  - pre-bend
 r   - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
 /\  - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
 s   - legato slide
 S   - shift slide
  - natural harmonic
[n]  - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
 ~   - vibrato
 tr  - trill
 T   - tap
 TP  - trem. picking
 PM  - palm muting
\n/  - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
 \n  - tremolo bar down
 n/  - tremolo bar up
/n\  - tremolo bar inverted dip
 =   - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
 <>  - volume swell (louder/softer)
 x   - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
 o   - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc Legend
-----------
 |  - bar
||  - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*|  - double bar (ending)
 :  - bar (freetime)
 $  - Segno
 &  - Coda
Tempo markers -  = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths


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