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Sideshow Blues by Todd Snider




                Sideshow Blues 






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My landlady treats me like I don't pay my rent
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Gave my car to my mechanic, I ain't seen it since
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My phone is always ringing, when I want to be alone
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They try and sell me everything from Heaven to cologne
     D                             A
Everybody's got an offer I can't refuse
         E                                                  A
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues

 
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It's all a big commercial, It's a video of a man
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It's a plot to put an end to my attention span
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They make up all these issues, I never understood
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If I thought I could change things I'd run out to Hollywood
         D                                                     A
But it's hard to kick the door down when you ain't wearing any shoes
          E                                                  A
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues

 
                  D
I've got them sideshow blues
          D
I want to tame the lions
         A
These center ring rich kids ain't even trying
         D
From college to the big top they take the best positions
          E
While I'm out in this tent with these freaks and musicians
          E
While I'm out in this tent with these freaks and musicians
                             A
I'm moaning them sideshow blues

 (solo) 

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I try to tell my girlfriend she's the only one that I've got
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This chick I hardly knows keeps on telling her she's not
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She got a loaded pistol, she waves it all the time
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Says some times you gotta kill a boy to keep his ass in line
            D                                               A
Well that's the way she sees it, she says she saw it on the news
          E                                                  A
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues
 

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See people play satanic records, and you don't know when they'll freak
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From quiet kid to maniac to movie of the week
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We're killing over cocaine, dying over sex
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We're bowing down and praying to who'll ever cuts the check
       D                                                 A
When I go to church on Sunday, I can't help sleep in the pews (that's what I do)
          E                                                  A
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues
          E                                                  A
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues
          E                                                  A
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues
          E
It's a circus people...Step Right Up










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