The Pump Song 1916

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6 Dec 2009
2009

A monkey may look like a man
but still a monkey ain't.
A homely girl may look real cute
behind a coat of paint,
Don't let the outside surface
mean anything to you,
My father was a travelling man
that's how I know it's true:

It's hard to tell
the depth of a well
by the length of the handle on the pump,
It's hard to guage a camel's age
by the curl of the hair upon his hump,
A girlie who,
may promise to be true, to you,
May be true to you and who knows who, do you?
It's hard to tell the depth of a well
by the length of the handle on the pump.

It's hard to tell
the depth of a well
by the length of the handle on the pump,
It's hard to doubt to figure out
why a wiselooking guy
is just a chump.
A Palm Beach friend
may write: "The water's fine,"
sometime still he bathes
in only beer and wine,
you'll find
It's hard to tell the depth of a well
by the length of the handle on the pump.

A number six may look like nine
when written upside down,
and when a nine looks like a six
it's even all around,
Sometimes the one you're trusting
is just the one to doubt,
I know I'm right,
it's my delight
to stand right here and shout:

It's hard to tell
the taste of the gum
by the way that it looks upon your shoe,
It's hard to find what's on your mind
by the way that you say: "How do you do?"
Some little chaps
are mighty smart we know
but oh! Great big saps
from little smarties grow
and so
It's hard to tell the depth of a well
by the length of the handle on the pump.

It's hard to tell
the depth of a well
by the length of the handle on the pump,
It's hard to guage a camel's age
by the curl of the hair upon his hump,
A girlie who,
may promise to be true, to you,
May be true to you and who knows who, do you?
It's hard to tell the depth of a well
by the length of the handle on the pump.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
*
The Pump Song 1916
by Sammy Lerner, Buddy Fields & Richard A.Whiting
© MCMXVI by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.Inc.Corp. - New York
*
sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 6 December 2009 at 16.25
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
*