Artist: Ray Brown & The Whispers
Song: Pride (1965)
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cz9nA0wvHo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Brown_%26_The_Whispers
Tempo: 8|4
Style: Rhythmic 60's Rock. Fast up-tempo strumming with the accent on the upward strum.
Capo 5
Chords EADGBe
C/G: 332010
Em: 022000
F: 133211
D: XX0232
Am: X02210
F#: 244322
G: 355433
INTRO:
|C/G |
VERSE 1:
C/G Em
Oh! when, you go out with, another guy, how it hurts my pride,
C/G Em
Oh! you'll never know how it, hurts me so, way down deep inside.
F Em
I feel so bad, but, I don't feel mad,
F D
What can I do, I love only you.
CHORUS 1:
C/G Am
And so I, swallowed up, swallowed, swallowed my pride,
C/G Am F F# - G
And kept it, yes, kept it inside, because I've heard.
NC C/G
That pride is such a little word.
VERSE 3:
C/G Em
I took you out just the other night, to a movie show,
C/G Em
Oh! Right at the end you saw a friend and said you'd have to go.
F Em
You walked away and left me alone,
F D
What could I say, when he walked you home.
CHORUS 2:
C/G Am
I had to, swallow up, swallow, swallow my pride,
C/G Am F F# - G
And kept it, yes, kept it inside, because I've heard,
NC C/G
That pride is such a little word.
INSTRUMENTAL:(Lead Over)
|C Am |C Am |
VERSE 4:
C/G Em
Oh! each night I pray for the, day you'll say that you really care,
C/G Em
Oh! I'm sure you'll find that, we'll love in time look around I'll be there.
F Em
The day will come, we'll be as one,
F D
And I'll go to her, but until then.
CHORUS 3:
C/G Am
I had to, swallow up, swallow, swallow my pride,
C/G Am F F# - G
And kept it, yes, kept it inside, because I've heard.
NC C/G
That pride is such a little word.
CODA:(Fade)
F C/G
That pride is such a little word,
F C/G
That pride is such a little word.
[Lead flourish]
[End]
Notes.
1. Technically, Ray was perhaps not quite as strong a singer as some of his
contemporaries (but measured against voices like Billy Thorpe, Max Merritt, Normie
Rowe and Tony Worsley, that's no criticism) but he had a smooth, pleasing and
instantly recognisable tenor voice with a particularly emotive upper register,
which he used to great effect on hits like "Pride" and "Fool Fool Fool".
http://www.milesago.com/artists/raybrown.htm