Ringling Road - William Clark Green

So the first verses of the song is picking the bass note of the b minor chord.  Alternating the bass note of the A string in the barre chord formation of bm, then you pick the bass note of the E string still in the Bm barre formation or the 2nd fret not on the E string.

Intro
harmonic on the 7th string, then alternate picking of Bm from above

Bm picking
Train rolls in at 10 am, kill the lamb for the lions find some water for the elephants
Monkey on his shoulder, is a monkey on his back
Bm hold
Could I bum a cigarette, I done smoked my last pack
G barre hold                 A barre hold
Throw up the big tent, throw down some saw dust
G barre hold                            A normal 3 down strokes
We don't open till the 'morin, Step right up

Chorus:
Bm               G barre             A reg chord
We got beer for the bearded lady
Bm                G barre             A reg 
And the Siamese twins are into opium
Bm                      G barre        A      G reg                        A
The trapeze guys are all high on cocaine that they bought from a guy that used to drive the train
G reg
We got water for the elephants,
A                    G                                 A          
Everybody knows the greatest party on earth is the circus down on 
Bm
Ringling road

Bm, G barre, A reg x2

Bm                     G barre               A reg
Well the tattoo man is making out with snake lady
Bm                     G barre                     A reg
Just to piss off the human cannon ball that she been dating
Bm                   G barre             A reg
Clown got wasted and he's throwing a shoe
Bm                  G barre              A reg stop
At a bear on a bike with a bottle of booze
G reg                A
Tightrope walker is to damn high
g                                  A reg 3 down strokes
Welcome everybody to a freak show Friday night

We got beer for the bearded lady
And the Siamese twins are into opium
The trapeze guys are all high on cocaine that they bought from a guy that used to drive the train
We got water for the elephants,
Everybody on earth know that the greatest party on earth is the circus down on Ringling road

Break
Bm
We got beer for the bearded lady
And the Siamese twins are into opium
The trapeze guys are all high on cocaine that they bought from a guy that used to drive the train
Bm
We got beer for the bearded lady
And the Siamese twins are into opium
The trapeze guys are all high on cocaine that they bought from a guy that used to drive the train
G reg
We got water for the elephants,
Everybody on earth know that the greatest show on earth is the circus down on ringling road

Down on Ringling road
Down on Ringling road

Outro