Chords for William Clark Green "Ringling Road" on The Texas Music Scene

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_ You [D] know, William Clark [A] Green decided to write a song about the little [E]-known dark side of
the traveling circus.
He [G] was so proud of the results that he [A] named the [E] 2015 record after the tune.
It's called Ringling Road.
[D] Here's Will's take [A] on the inspiration behind [E] that one.
Ringling Road I wrote with Randall [G] Clay and Ross Cooper.
Randall [A] was the roustabout for [E]
10 years in the circus and Ross is a buddy of mine from Lubbock.
I called Ross.
Ross had written [D] a circus song before and I called him _ because I [A] knew the [D] story of Ringling
Road which is in [E] Eastland.
I kind of told him the story and he is more familiar with writing a circus song than I've
never done before.
So I asked if he would [D] help write it with me and he said the [A] night before he met a guy
at a bar [D] named Randall Clay who was a roustabout [A] for 10 years who writes under Bobby Pinson
[E] in Nashville.
I was like, get him on the right.
We [D] got in there and we just had fun with it.
[A] Once again it was one of those songs that [E] was so creative and so outside the box but
that's the beautiful thing about the Texas [G] music scene is the further you get [A] outside
the box [E] on some things they gravitate that way as opposed to your top 40 country.
It's not [D] the formula.
It's [A] completely outside of what it [E] should be which is great.
Like I said the best part about the Texas music scene [G] is because people gravitate towards
that stuff [Am] because it's so [D] different.
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_ Train rose in at 10 a.m.
Kill the lamb for the [A] lion.
[G] Find some water [F#] for the elephant.
[B] Some monkey [A] on my shoulder.
[Bm] Got a monkey [A] on his back.
[F#] Put up [E] all my cigarettes.
[F#] Need to [D] unsmoke my [B] last pack.
[Em] Get up the big time.
[F#m] Blow down the sawdust.
[G] We don't hope until tomorrow.
[A] So step right up.
We [Bm] got _ [B] beer [G] for the [A] beady lady [B] and the [D] Siamese twins are [Em] into [G] opium.
[Bm] And the [A] trapeze guys are [G] all high on [A] cocaine that [G] they buy from the guy that [A] used to drive the train.
We [G] got water for the elephants.
[A] Everybody knows the [G] greatest party on [B] earth is the circus [E] down on [Bm] Ringling Road.
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[Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ Well [B] the [A] tattoo man is [B] making [A] out with Snake Lady [B] just to piss [A] off the human [G] cannonball that [F#] she been dating.
[B] The [A] clown got wasted.
[B] Now he's throwing [A] his shoes [F#] at a bear on a bike with a [D] bottle [B] of [Em] booze.
The tightrope walker [F#m] is too damn high.
[G] Welcome to the freak [A] show Friday night.
So step right up.
We [B] got _ [A] beer [G] for the [A] beady lady [B] and the [D] Siamese twins are [E] into [G] opium.
[B] And the [A] trapeze guys are [G] all high on [A] cocaine that [G] they buy from the guy that [A] used to drive the train.
We [G] got water for the [A] elephants.
Everybody knows the [G] greatest party on earth [F#] is the circus down on [G] Ringling Road.
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[B] Ringling.
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ [F#] Down on [G] Ringling Road.
_ _ [F#] _ _ We [Bm] got [A] beer [G] for the [A] beady lady [B] and the [D] Siamese twins are [Em] into opium.
[B] And the [A] trapeze guys are [G] all high on [A] cocaine that [G] they buy from the guy that [A] used to drive the train.
We [Bm] got _ [A] beer [G] for the [A] beady lady [B] and the [D] Siamese twins are [Em] into [G] opium.
[B] And the [A] trapeze guys are [G] all high on [A] cocaine that [G] they buy from the guy that [A] used to drive the train.
We [G] got water for the elephants.
[A] Everybody knows the [G] greatest party on earth [F#] is the circus down on [B] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [F#] _ _
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[B] Ringling Road.
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[B] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F#] Wala.
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[B] _ _ [D] Ya!
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[B] _ _ [D] Ya!
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_ _ _ _ Woo!
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