Hump de Bump Chords

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Hump de Bump by Red Hot Chili Peppers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D7, Dm, Bb, Gm and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Intro: G D7 
 
 
    ( D7 ) 
40 detectives this week 
40 detectives strong 
Takin? a stroll so wrong 
Can I get my co-defendont 
 
    ( D7 ) 
Hump de bump doop bodu 
Bump de hump doop bop 
Hump de bump doop bodu 
 
Bump de hump doop bodu 
Hump de bump doop bop 
Bump the hump doop bop 
 
Bump  bump 
 
Dm                                   Bb 
Must have been a hundred miles 
 
Any of a hundred styles 
      A 7              Gm	 
It?s not about the smile you wear 
A7 
But the way we make out 
Dm                            Bb 
When I was all-alone 
                                     
Nothin?  but a two beach comber 
A7        Gm              A7 
Anybody seen the sky? 
                                  D7 
I?m wide awake now 
 
         ( D7 ) 
Working the beat as we speak 
Working the belle du monde   
Believe in the havoc we wrong 
Belivin is that so wrong 
Can  I get my co-dependent  
    
 ( D7 ) 
Hump de bump doop bodu 
Bump de hump doop bop 
Hump de bump doop bodu 
 
Bump de hump doop bodu 
Hump de bump doop bop 
Bump the hump doop bop 
 
Bump  bump 
 
Dm                                              Bb 
Must have been a hundred miles 
 
Any of a hundred styles 
      A 7              Gm 
It?s not about the smile you wear 
A7 
But the way we make out 
Dm                            Bb 
When I was all-alone 
                                     
Nothin?  but a two beach comber 
A7        Gm              A7 
Anybody seen the sky? 
 
I?m wide awake now 
     
  ( D7 ) 
Hump de bump doop bodu 
Bump de hump doop bop 
Hump de bump doop bodu 
 
Bump de hump doop bodu 
Hump de bump doop bop 
Bump the hump doop bop 
 
Bump  bump 
 
Dm                       Bb 
Livin? in a citadel 
 
It?s hard enough to be yourself  
    A7                 Gm          A7 
Waiting for the bell to toll 
 
And I m wide awake now 
 
 
Dm                                              Bb 
Must have been a hundred miles 
 
Any of a hundred styles 
      A 7              Gm 
It?s not about the smile you wear 
A7 
But the way we make out 
Dm                            Bb 
When I was all-alone 
                                     
Nothin?  but a two beach comber 
A7        Gm              A7 
Anybody seen the sky? 
 
I?m wide awake now 
 
Dm                                 Bb 
Listen to me what I said 
 
Try to get it through your head 
     A7                Gm           A7 
A little bit of circumstance  
                                      D7 
A chance to make out 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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100 BPM Andante