Frim Fram Sauce

Words & Music by Joe Ricardel & Red Evans
Recorded by Nat King Cole, 1945


E  D9   E7     A     D9        A           D9
I don't want french fried po - ta - toes, 

A    D9       A           D9
Red ripe to - ma - toes,

B7         Edim         B7
I'm nev- er sat - is - fied.

           D9        Cdim            A       F#7
I want the frim fram sauce with the aus - en fay

           D9     E7/6     A  Edim  E7
With cha - fa - fa on the side.


E  D9   E7    A     D9      A         D9
I don't want pork chops and ba - con, 

A     D9       A        D9
That won't a - wa - ken

   B7        Edim       B7
My ap - pe - tite in - side.

            D9       Cdim            A       F#7
I want the frim fram sauce with the aus - en fay

           D9      Dm6     A 
With cha - fa - fa on the side.


Bridge:

   A7             D      D6
A fella's really got to eat

       A7    Fdim        D9
And a fella should eat right.

 B7      Cdim      E
Five will get you ten

Fdim       B7         Cdim     E7
I'm gonna feed myself right tonight.


E  D9   E7    A     D9      A         D9
I don't want fish cakes and rye bread - 

A     D9       A        D9
You heard what I said.

B7             Edim        B7
Waiter, please serve mine fried

            D9       Cdim            A       F#7
I want the frim fram sauce with the aus - en fay

           D9      Dm6     A 
With cha - fa - fa on the side.


*Fifty years later, Diana Krall revived this one and brought it to the attention of a couple of generations' worth of listeners who had never heard it. I had, thanks to long-time piano bar acquaintance George P., who's been singing it for a lucky few of us for many years. Thanks to recent visitor mrjazz for the suggestion.


 
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