Circus chords by Tom Waits

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Verse 1
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Em 
 (E minor) We  put up our  (F major) tent on  (E minor) a dark
green knoll, outside of town by
the train tracks and a seagull dump
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Em 
 (F major) Topping the bill  (E minor) was Horse Face Ethel
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 (B major) and her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin'
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 2
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Em 
We pounded our  (F major) stakes in  (E minor) the ground
All powder brown
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And the branches spread  (F major) like scary
fingers reaching
Em 
We  (E minor) were in a pasture
outside Kankakee

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Verse 3

And One Eyed Myra, the queen of

the galley who trained the

ostrich and the camels

She looked at me squinty with her

one good eye in a Roy Orbison

T- shirt as she bottle fed

an orangutan named Tripod

Verse 4
Em 
 (E minor) And then there was
Yodeling Elaine the
queen of the air who wore a
dollar sign medallion and she
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had a tiny bubble of  (A minor) spittle
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around her nos (E minor) tril and a
little rusty tear, for she had
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Em 
lassoed  (F major) and lost  (E minor) another
B 
tipsy  (B major) sailor

Verse 5
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 (B major) 
Em 
And  (E minor) over in
the burnt yellow tent
by the frozen tractor, the
B 
Em 
music was like electric  (B major)  (E minor) sugar
B 
Em 
And Zuzu Bolin played  (B major)  (E minor) 
'Stavin' Chain' and Mighty
Tiny on the saw and he
D 
threw his head back  (D major) with a
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mouth  (E minor) full of gold teeth
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And they played 'Lopsided  (F major) heart'
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C 
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And  (E minor) 'Moon over Dog  (C major)  (F major) Street'

Verse 6
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And by the time  (E minor) they played
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'Moanin  (D major)  (E minor) Low'
C 
I was soak (C major) in' wet and
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wild  (E minor) eyed
And Doctor Bliss slipped me a
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pre (B major) paration  (E minor) and I fell asleep with

Interlude 1
'Livery Stable Blues' in my ear
Em 
Am 
Em 
B 
 (E minor)  (A minor)  (E minor)  (B major) 
Baug 
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Am 
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 (Baug)  (E minor)  (A minor)  (E minor) 
C 
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Am 
 (C major)  (F major)  (E minor)  (A minor) 
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 (E minor) And

Verse 7
me and Molley Hoey drank
Pruno and Koolaid and she had a
tattoo gun made out of a cassette
motor and a guitar string and
B 
she soaked  (B major) a  hanky in 3 Roses
Em 
and rubbed it on  (E minor) the spot
and drew a rickety heart and
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Em 
F 
a bent arrow  (A major)  (A minor) and it  (E minor) hurt like  (F major) hell
C 
Em 
And Fu (C major) neral Wells  (E minor) spun

Verse 8
B 
Poodle Murphy  (B major) on the target
Em 
as he threw  (E minor) his hardware,
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Am 
Em 
 (A major) Only once  (A minor) in She (E minor) boygan did he miss
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Em 
C 
at  (F major) a  matinee on Diamond  (E minor) Pier  (C major) and
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Em 
she'd  (A minor) never let  (E minor) him forget it

Verse 9
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 (E minor) They were doing two
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shows and  (F major) she
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had a high fever and he  (E minor) took
Em 
off a piece of  (E minor) her ear and
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Tip Little  (B major) told her  (E minor) she should
leave the bum
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but Poodle said, "He  (A minor) fetched  (E minor) me
last time I run."
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 (F major) But I'd like to  (E minor) hammer this
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ring into a bullet  (B major)  (E minor) 
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 (B major) And I wish  (E minor) I had some
whiskey and a gun
my dear