The Transplant Calypso chords by Jeremy Taylor

The Transplant Calypso
By Jeremy Taylor

Transcribed by Kevin Hanssen

          G                  D
The other day I was feeling ill
               A                  D
I went to the doctor to get some pills
      G               D
He looked at me in despair
                       A                 D
Said my friend you’re badly in need of repair
             G             D
Now with his up to date surgery
                 A                    D
We get our spare parts from the menagerie
               G                D
So if you’ll kindly sit down a while
               A               D
I’ll just telephone for a crocodile

CHORUS
               G
Soon I had the heart of an ape
     D
The liver of a chicken
       A                      D
The blood of an ox through a tube which they’re stickin’
      G                               D
To my spleen which I borrowed from a cow
            A                     D
I was human once but I’m not sure now.


G                     D
    Going out one night
                 A             D
Me and a fella      got into a fight
                    G
I hit him with the left
                D
I hit with the right
               A                        D
But somehow I just couldn’t finish the fight
                  G                    D
No matter what I did he kept coming at me
                A              D
The stubbornest man I ever did see
           G                  D
It was in vain I find out at last
                       A                  D
This fella’s got the      jaw bone of an ass

              G
I’ve got the heart of an ape etc


G                      D
     Walking down the street
                A                  D
me girlfriend       I happened to meet
     G                    D
Me heart went bong-diddy-bong
              A                 D
Just like the ape that I got it from
            G
Me ox blood boiled
             D
I started to moo
                     A                        D
I was pawing at the ground, what else could I do
         G                 D
When at last she walked on by
                      A                  D
I said cockle-doodle-doo and started to fly


              G
I’ve got the heart of an ape etc


(The last verse is looser and spoken-like; think country and western with a Carribean lilt)

        G                    D
In the end I was getting fed up
                      A                     D
Said to the doctor, “Look man, I’ve had enough,
         G                 D
All this animal junk won’t do
                         A                     D
Give me some organ that doesn’t come out of the zoo.”
                G                      D
He said “Well,     how about this for size.”
                     A                 D
I tell you, I could hardly believe me eyes
                   G                      D
I looked at this thing with dismay and suspicion,
            A                  D
I t was the brain of a politician.

                    G
I’d rather have the heart of an ape etc

ENDS