3/4 Time

INTRO: C / C / F/C /C
C / C / G/C /C

x2

C                       F
Ilsa was an acrobat who went and fell in love with that

  Am        G           C
Horatio the human cannonball.

  C                                    F
A weddin' 'neath the big top tent with barkers clowns and elephants

Am              G            C
Sideshow family oddities and all.

    F             Am              G
The dog-faced boy howled out with joy

       Dm       C        G
As the tattooed lady was crying.

     C         G            Am             F
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         C   G        C
It takes all kinds of kinds.


C                             F
Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons

    Am              G              C
And dresses that he wore on Friday nights.


C                           F
Phyllis was a pharmacist, a dab of that, a pinch of this

   Am           G             C
Concocted to suppress her appetite.

         F                            Am            G
When the children were fiddlin' she'd slip 'em some Rit'lin

    Dm            C         G
And wait for Thomasina to arrive.

           C         G            Am             F
Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         C   G        Am      F
It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

C   G        C
All kinds of kinds.


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     C                           F
When I play this old guitar from children's shows to smoky bars

  Am               G               C
I take a break and think about the past.

       C                        F
When I stood up in geometry and everybody stared at me

    Am          G             C
And I tossed my test into the trash.


  F                         Am              G
I scratched off my number while hitching out under

     Dm          C          G
That bush league population sign.

     C         G            Am             F
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         C   G        C
It takes all kinds of kinds.


 F                       Am        G 
Some point a finger, let ignorance linger

          Dm          C              G  / D/F# / Em7 / G/D
If they'd look in the mirror they'd find.

          C         G            F/C             
That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         C   G        Am     F
It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

C   G       Am      F
All kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

C   G        C
All kinds of kinds.

Repeat Intro