Title:  nobody likes an ump

Composer:  Joe Raposo / Tom Dunsmuir

Lead vocals:  Morgan Freeman

Backing vocals:  Skip Hinnant

Scene:  A baseball umpire who has just made an unpopular call, appealing to his important role in the English language.

[MF]  You can clearly tell from the way they scream and yell,

Nobody likes an ump.

You can clearly see from the way they scream at me,

Nobody likes an ump.

If you didn't have an ump, you couldn't have a pump.

You couldn't have a pump if you didn't have an ump.

If you didn't have an ump, how could you have a lump?

You couldn't have a lump if you didn't have an ump.

You didn't have an ump, you couldn't have a jump.

You couldn't have a jump if you didn't have an ump.

Not a pump.  Not a lump.  Not a jump, without an ump.

Not a pump.  Not a lump.  Not a jump, without an ump.

So I hope you'll change your mind, and from now on you'll be kind

Whenever you see an ump.

Yes, I truly hope and pray that, starting right away,

Somebody likes an ump.

Somebody likes an ump?

[MF, SH]  Somebody likes an ump!

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