Chords for Mighty Sparrow - Dan Is The Man (In The Van)

[C] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [E] _ [Dm] _ [G] _
[Am] _ _ [D] _ [G] [C] Captain!
[F] _ [G] Hey, [A] clam in the horn.
[D] _ [G] _ [C] _ [G] _ [Bb] According [D] to the [G] education you get [C] when you're [Gb] small,
[Dm] _ [C] you will grow up [Dm] with true ambition [G] and respect from [C] one and all.
[Bb]
[E] But [F] in my days [G] in school, [C] they [A] teach me like a fool.
[D] You think they [G] teach me I should be a [Am] plucked-haired mule?
[Dm] [G] I went into [C] the church.
He said me [Dm] pussy-ass [C] finished his work long ago.
[G] And now he's resting [C] and thin. _
[Dm] Salamana Gandhi was [A] born on [D] a Monday.
[G] The ass in [Am] the lion's head.
[F]
Winking, [C] blinking, a nod, [G] sail off in a [C] wooden sloop.
The [Dm] goody loosey [Em] tail and the alley [A] kid are fighting [D] to make [G] money never [C] so.
[A] And [G] Dan is the man in the [C] band.
[D] _ [G] _ [Am] _ _
[D] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [E] _ [C] [D] Wacky, am I?
_ [G] [C] The [G] _ [C] [Am] poems and [D] the lessons they write [G] and send [C] from [Am] England [Dm] _ [G] _ [C] impress me.
[D] They were trying [G] to cultivate _ [C] comedians.
[Bb] _ [C] [F] Comic books [G] make more sense.
[C] You know it is [Gm] fictitious, [A] the crowd returns.
[D] Cartridge [G] wanted to keep us in [Am] ignorance.
He [Dm] told me if they sent [G] you a business,
[C] Humpty Dumpty sat on [Bb] a wall.
[G] Humpty Dumpty didn't fall.
[C] [Dm] Goosey, goosey, [A] [D] ganga.
[G] Yes, [Am] you're like one.
[F] Ding [C] dong [Am] dell.
[Dm] [G] Goosey in [C] the well.
[Dm] R-I-K-K [Em]-I-G-I [A]-K-K-I-A [D]-T-R-V-I-R [B]-E-K-K-T [C]-K-T-K-T-R-V.
[E] Dan [G] is the man in the [Am] band.
[Dm] _ [C] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ [C]
Wacky, [F] am I?
[Gb] _ [G] _ [A] _ [D] _ [G] _ [C] _
I said [A] Cartridge [Dm] was plenty times more advanced than them [Am] scientists.
[F] _ [G] I am [E] believe [D] that no one man could [G] write so much [C] stupidness.
[E] _ [F] Aeroplanes [G] didn't come so soon.
[C] Scientists used to make the [A] grading balloon.
[D] Cartridge [G] make a cone jump [Am] over the moon.
[Dm] And [G] then he tell [C] them Tom, [Dm] Tom [A] the piper [G] son.
Steve a pig and away he ran.
Once [Dm] there was a woman [Em] who lived in a [D] shoe.
She had so [G] many children, [C] she didn't know what [F] to do.
Dickory, [C] dickory [A] dock.
[D] The [G] mouse ran [C] up the clock.
The lion [Dm] and the mouse, a [Em] woman pushing a [D] cow to eat grass [C] on top of a house.
Mama, [D] [G] Dan is the man [Am] in the band.
[Dm] _ [G] _
[Am] _ [D] _ [G] _ [C] _ Wacky, [Em] _
[A] am I?
[D] _ [G] _ [C] _ How I [A] happen to get [Dm] some [G] education, my friends.
[C] Me and oh, [F] _ [G] [C] all they teach me [D] is about their [G] rabbit and [C] rumpelstiltskin, oh.
[Bb] [E] They [F] wanted to keep me [G] down indeed.
They [C] tried their best but didn't [A] succeed, you see.
[D] Me head [G] was down, see, and up to [C] now I [Dm] can't read.
[G] Who cares [C] about [Dm] Peter?
Peter [A] was a punky neater.
[D] Some little, [G] little people [G] like Oliver.
[C] [G] When I was sick and lay in bed, I [D] had two pillows at my head.
[G] The [C] goose lay the golden egg.
[F] Spider catch a [Am]
moron coy with [G] wings, [C] flopping in the sky.
They beat me like a [Dm] dog to learn that [Em] in school.
[A] If me head was [D] right, I [G] would not be a [C] dumb fool.
With [A] [G] Dan is the [C] man in the [Am] band.
[B] Can [A] a pig dance [G] a jig for a [Gb] pig?
[F] _ _ [Am] Wally [G] and Wesley were [Am] two [F] schools.
[C] Mr.
[D] Mike [Am] goes to [G] school [Gb] on a bike.
_ [F] _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ [F] _ [C] _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ [A] _ [Dm] _ [C] _ _
[A] _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _