The Pump chords by Mighty Sparrow

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C
Gm
Ab
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Bm
Em
Abaug
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Verse 1
Am 
Because it's very possible
for the heart of a black man
to be in the body of a white man
and keep him alive.
D 
You know what I'm talking about.
Am 
So, protect your heart, brethren
D 
an d sisteren.
G 
You gotta say amen. Hallelujah.
C 
G 
Protect your hearts with your heart.
Gm 
D 
Because without the heart
Am 
C 
D 
you don't have a life.
Am 
Oh you got such a dirty laugh,
D 
look at that.
How can you look so clean
and think so dirty?
I can't understand it.
You thought it was a dirty
joke
but I don't give dirty
jokes, you know that.
I would never tell
you about a thrifty tomcat
G 
that put a little in the kitty every night.
C 
Not me.
Or the two old maids walking
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down the street
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C 
and one old maid said
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E 
I'm trying to die.
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G 
Gm 
The other said I'm dying to try.
G 
D 
So what you got to do by the heart now,
ladies and gentlemen?
How are you gonna protect your heart?
Change the name of it.
Call it a pump.
G 
D 
P -O -M -P. Pump.
G 
D 
Is that the way to spell it?
Are you gonna make me a liar for you?
Well anyway, I can't spell.
I've never been to school.
G 
But I know that if you change
that word
D 
from heart to pump,
you will be in a whole lot of trouble
C 
because all the love songs that were composed  about the
heart would not sound the same way.
G 
Now I know you people here love
Nat King Cole,
but he would be singing songs like this.
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Em 
G 
If I give my pump to you.
D 
You know, that's a good song
and it's a good idea.
Why don't we do that change the word
from heart to pump
because we must admit
even if you do call it a heart
Am 
you must admit that
D 
the heart pumps the blood right
I never thought about that
I can just imagine the look on that King Cole's face when he
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C 
G 
says if I  give my pump to you
Bm 
particularly when he's singing
D 
to a bunch of men
Em 
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D 
a   whole lot of men in the place
and he's got to ask them will you
Am 
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C 
To handle it with care
D 
Oh, that

Verse 2
will be embarrassing
I'm telling you, he's
glad he's dead now
C 
Good man, a good man
But I didn't like him one time,
D 
you know I'm telling you
G 
Not for anything other than something
Am 
D 
stupid  he sang
G 
Smile
D 
For your pump is aching

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Verse 3
G 
Now, how can that King Cole,
D 
a man I love so much,
how can he tell me smile
when my pump is aching?
But I didn't understand,
that's why I got so furious.
G 
But after a while, I came to the understanding,
D 
G 
and I loved him even more than before when he said,
Bm 
Em 
D 
Smile, even though it's breaking,
Daug 
D 
that's the time when I smile.
Oh, that's the time everybody smiled.
G 
Ain't that so?
D 
You smile when your pump is breaking?
Oh, that's right, that's
right.
Bm 
Realizing now that anyone can
D 
have a heart or a pump,
people get very careless.
Bm 
G 
D 
G 
Tony Bennett said to me, I left my pump.
Am 
Bm 
Where did he leave that pump?
G 
Am 
In San Francisco
D 
Now I don't mind a man leaving his pump anywhere if he's careless because I'm
Am 
D 
pretty careless myself but high on a hill
This thing might roll down into
G 
the sea
And I'll tell you something ladies and
gentlemen
anytime anything fall in the sea
they quick to blame shark
You know the old saying
D 
anything in the sea shark take it just like whenever you see
a woman finds your belly big Sparrow
Oh Sparrow with a moustache like this you feel
I could do anything like that
G 
60 million Frenchmen
they write us the days long can't be wrong
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D 
but the one I love is the song that the woman would sing to the men
anytime you know like a man mess up with a woman she would say
G 
I wanna be around
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Oh, I want to pick up the pieces
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D 
When somebody breaks your pump
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D 
Some somebody twice as plump as I
G 
And I know you
D 
With all the conceit in the world
He will grab the woman by
the collar and say
Come here, girl
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D 
You belong to my pump
And you ain't going no place
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D 
E 
Now and forever
Am 
D 
Now the woman is scared like hell
She can't say nothing except
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Let me call you sweet punk
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E 
Em 
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You belong to me
C 
You know, it's a hell of a thing
We can go on and on
D 
A guy said to me, he was so careless
G 
That he left his pump
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G 
Am 
It fell into Kelly's hands, Kelly's hands,
D 
oh it broke his pump in two, pa -pa -da -da
G 
He got two pumps now
D 
and he's still complaining.
How do you please
these people?
I got ten toes
and I want to change them anytime.
Hey fellas,  take a toe
and give me a pump, anybody.
F 
Oh man, you never know what you're going to,
you can't trust these people nowadays.
D 
Two pumps and he's still complaining.
This man can rule the whole country
with two pumps.
Well, in a way, he would
have three.
But the one I love best of all,
ladies and gentlemen,
is the song that was sung by
Mario Lanza.
C 
You know that great Itali
an singer
who came all the way from Italy?
He came up to Carnegie Hall
for the first time
looking so handsome,
singing to all the American girls,
and they're looking at him
straight in the eye
and shouting at the top of their voices
D 
saying, Let me hear you call for him!
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He looks at the chicks
and he says,
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D 
You're breaking my
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C 
lip!
Am 
E 
C 
Am 
Was you leaving?
C 
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D 
C 
D 
Oh my  darling, you're breaking
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C 
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My people
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Thank you ladies and  gentlemen,
D 
thank you again
We want to say it on behalf of the
D 
Troubadours and myself,
our thanks to you!
The Mighty Sparrow,
F 
make him happy!
Mighty Sparrow!
Oh, darling,
F 
long as I can feel the gin flowing in,
I'll be happy
Gm 
C 
Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah! Oh!
Hey!