Chords with lyrics
The Transplant Calypso
By Jeremy Taylor
Transcribed by Kevin Hanssen
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D MajorD
The other day I was feeling ill
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I went to the doctor to get some pills
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He looked at me in despair
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Said my friend you’re badly in need of repair
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Now with his up to date surgery
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We get our spare parts from the menagerie
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So if you’ll kindly sit down a while
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I’ll just telephone for a crocodile
CHORUS
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Soon I had the heart of an ape
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The liver of a chicken
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The blood of an ox through a tube which they’re stickin’
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To my spleen which I borrowed from a cow
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I was human once but I’m not sure now.
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Going out one night
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Me and a fella got into a fight
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I hit him with the left
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I hit with the right
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But somehow I just couldn’t finish the fight
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No matter what I did he kept coming at me
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The stubbornest man I ever did see
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It was in vain I find out at last
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This fella’s got the jaw bone of an ass
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I’ve got the heart of an ape etc
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Walking down the street
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me girlfriend I happened to meet
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Me heart went bong-diddy-bong
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Just like the ape that I got it from
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Me ox blood boiled
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I started to moo
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I was pawing at the ground, what else could I do
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When at last she walked on by
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I said cockle-doodle-doo and started to fly
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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)
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In the end I was getting fed up
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Said to the doctor, “Look man, I’ve had enough,
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All this animal junk won’t do
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Give me some organ that doesn’t come out of the zoo.”
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He said “Well, how about this for size.”
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I tell you, I could hardly believe me eyes
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I looked at this thing with dismay and suspicion,
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I t was the brain of a politician.
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I’d rather have the heart of an ape etc
ENDS
