Chords for Circus Contraption "Mendel the Magnificent"

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_ _ _ _ Oh, _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
my _ sweet _ _ _ _ _ love, _ _ _ how your _ kiss _ _ [E]
lingers _ _ strange on [G]
my _ _ _ _ lips. _
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The faint _ stench [C] of _ hay, _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ remnants of _ _ clay, _ _ [E] _ _ _
that [Am] rash on your head,
_ [E] _
[Cm] peanuts in bed, it strikes [G] me all [D] _ so [E] very _ _ _ _ _ clearly.
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I sense there is _ _ _ _ something _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ _ amiss. _
_ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
[F#] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
I was in _ love. _
[Gm] _ _ Mendel the _ _ _
[F#] Magnificent.
_ He was the [Bm] circus's resident knife-thrower,
_ strong man and large mammal [C] caretaker. _ _
Big, _ handsome, not too bright.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ He was perfect.
_ _ [C] I love the thrill of being strapped [C#] to his target, _
knives piercing the wood all [C] around me, [F#] the [D] intensity of his concentration _ boring right _ into me.
[Bm] _ _ On stage we [C] were _ [Bm] naturals, [G] daring and delicate, [C#] _ daggers [C] and velvet of [F] _
[F#] breathtaking sight,
but [Bm] _ tragedy [C] _ always [Bm] just inches [G] away.
Our [C#] love-guided [F#] blades hit just _ [F] right.
_ _ [F#] _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] Then one day I [Bm] noticed a hint of _ indifference.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] [E] He stopped throwing his knives as close in to me as [Bm] usual.
Not a woman can notice the details, you know.
_ _ He was [C]
lingering [E] late at the [F#] large mammal tent [E]
every night.
[F#] _ [B] I knew he had found _ another.
_ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ That greasy, _ _ [F#] lying [Bm] bastard!
[Fm] _ _ [F#] Why [D] would he do it? _
[F#] Why would [C] he throw away [F#] our love, [Gm] _ our life, _ our act?
[C] _ How could he possibly have found someone [Dm] more appealing [C] than _ _ me?
_ _ How [Bm]
jealous, _ [C] ungrateful, [Bm] and wrong could [G] he be to [Bm] destroy what [Em] we had for [F] some tryst [F#] in a tent?
There [Bm] was no one in [C] town I had as [G] charming as me, so [Bm] I followed to [F#] see [Bm] where he went.
[D] _ _
[E] As I snuck _ [E] _ behind [Em] the _ _ _ [E] flapping _ _ [Bm]
canvas, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ the sight I saw was cause [E] _ _ _
[B] for an _ _ _ [Bm] arm!
A [C] mantle! _ _ _ _ _
In an _ elephant's _ arms!
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[Fm] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ Suddenly _ _ it _
[C] all made _ [F] sense. _
[F#] _ _ The stench, _ [B] _
the [F#] peanuts.
_ [B] _ How he [E] wouldn't shut up about what a [F#] great specimen she was, _ always giving her extra hay.
[B] _
The _ _ [F#] _ way she looked at him when he [D] hosed her down, [Bm] _
balancing on the stool just right, _ _ swinging her [C] tail at him.
_ [F#] In [G] that _ way!
_ [Bm] Oh, I should have known!
It was [F#] all just so [C] bestial and [F] _ _ _ [F#] humiliating!
[E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ A [C#] woman _ scorned [A#] is one [Em] thing, _ but losing out [E] to a [A#] _ [D#] saggy, _ rough-skinned, _ _ _ overweight, _ [B] _ _
_ 40 pounds of dung a day _ _ subjugated zoo _ species?
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
The [Bm] _ geometry [C] _ staggering!
[Bm] How does [G] he manage?
He's [Bm] hung like a [C] horse, but not [F] elephant _ [F#]
-sized.
[Bm] He must need _ [C] assistance to [Bm] never [G] the distance.
[Bm] Does he crawl in [F#] and rub on [Bm] the sides?
You [E] can never mend [Em] a _ _ [E] _ heart so [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [B] trembled. _
[F#] _ _ _ [E] There's _ nothing left [Em] for _ [E] me _ to [Bm] _ _ do.
[F] _ _ [Em] _
His [C] affair will be _ through! _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ My _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] sweet _ _ _ love!
_ How your kiss linked the string of [A] my ring! _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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