Chords for Wild Billy's Circus Story (Live at the Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles, 1973)

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All the singers have lines they say before songs that people are dedicated to
But you know dedication is a funny thing
_ We got this gig in New York [Em] somebody [G] some crazy man booked us in the Madison Square Garden
Anybody who wants to name said at Madison Square Garden
Can meet me backstage with a quarter _ _ _ _ _
_ It's all about the circus _ _ _
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Well the [C] machinist clowns [D] his first wheel like [G] brave
_ _ _ _ In [C] the fire eaters line [D] in a pool of sweat [G] victim of the heat way _
_ _ [C] Behind the chin a leather [D] boy tightens his legs on the sword [C] swallowers blade _
_ _ _ Circus towns [G] on the short way
done
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] Well now the runway lies [D] ahead like a [G] great false dawn _
Oh
[C] fat lady big mama [D] missy dimple
[G] sits in her chair and yawns _
[C] And the man beast [D] lies in his cage sniffing [G] popcorn
_ _ _ _ _ [C] Midget licks his [D] finger
suffers
[G] Miss a [A] [C] bamboo
scorn
_ _ _ Circus towns [G] been born
_ _ Whoa when [C] I press old drama gold ballerina to and fro _
car
on [Em] _ [G] the tightrope
[C] With a cannon blast lightning flash moving fast suit attend Mars Ben is [G] gonna miss his fall
Oh God save [D] the human _ cannonball
_ any flying [C] Zambini's
Watch Margarita do [G] her neck twist _ _ _
_ The [C] ringmaster gets the kids to count along _
_ 95 [A] 96
_ [D] 97
_ _ _ [C] And behind the tent have [Em] been money spent
[D] with his wet face
[Am] [Em] Falling on the ground
[C] There's a half smile half [Em] frown going down.
[G] Oh Jesus and some sweet women to [D] save
all [D] the _ clowns _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] and
Circus boy dances [D] like a monkey on barbed [G] wire
_ _ _ _ [C] As the barker romances [D] with a junkie.
She's got a [G] flat tire
_ _ _ And [C] the elephants dance [D] real funky [G] in the band plays like a [C] jungle fire
_ _ _ _ _ Circus towns on the [G] live wire
And [C] strong man sass and listen midget little tight him way up on the shoulders way up
[G] And carries them on down the midway
_ Whoa [C] pass the kids
pass [G] the sailors
[C] to his dimly lit
[G] trailer
And [C] the ferris go round [G] and round like it ain't never [D] gonna stop
_ _ _ And the circus boss is whispering into some little boy there.
[C] Hey, son, you wanna try [G] a big top?
_ _ [C] All aboard [G] Nebraska's our next stop _ _ _ _ _ _