Halloween 2009 chords by Loudon Wainwright III

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Verse 1
A 
D 
Tell me who you gonna be on Halloween?
A 
A witch or a pirate? A gypsy
or a clown?
D 
How's about a zombie
fresh out of the ground?
G 
For Halloween last year I was a king
Gm 
Bb 
D 
Had a sceptre a crown ermine robe ruby ring

Verse 2
G 
Then in December everything tanked
A 
My entire portfolio and all
that I'd banked on
Lost the mansion the yacht
the wife and the wealth
D 
It all went up in smoke including my health
A 
Insurance? Forget it lost that
with the job
D 
What I need is a gun now
and a bank I can rob
G 
Gm 
I was a king but my kingdom's
destroyed
A 
I'll be dillinger this year or
G 
D 
A 
pretty boy Floyd
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Verse 3
to make the big scene
D 
Who you gonna be on Halloween?
A 
The mummy? The werewolf? How's
D 
about Shreck?
Frankenstein's creature
with a bolt in your neck?
G 
Maybe this year I can be a bum,
Gm 
Bb 
Buddy spare me a dime,
a crust or a crumb
G 
Some smart lucky fat cats got out of the jam
A 
Bernie's in prison but
Greenspan's on the lamb
My favorite get up when I was a teen
D 
Was to dress down like a hobo
on Halloween
A 
I'd black out a few teeth
charcoal in a beard
D 
And pretend to have nothing
Be forgotten and feared
G 
You know a bum is someone
Gm 
that's not so bad to be
A 
G 
In a sense somewhat honest and to some ex
D 
tent free

Interlude 1

Verse 4
Carve out a pumpkin make a big scene
D 
Who you gonna be on Halloween?
A 
Vampires are sexy this year they're in
D 
But bein' the friendly ghost
ain't no sin
G 
Now it's trick or treatin'

Verse 5
G 
time
just as sure as your born
Gm 
Bb 
The kids are gonna want a lot of candy corn
G 
Boys down on Wall St.
will be up to their tricks
A 
'Cause there's always
a way to put in the fix
Black cats, cobwebs, bats, Halloween
D 
Just about time to make the
scary scene
A 
But the scariest monster
F 
won't be at your door
D 
He's on CNBC where
there's real blood and gore
G 
You better turn off your
Gm 
TV hide under your bed
A 
It's mad money's Jim Cramer
G 
and he's back from the dead
D 