Clown Strike
Elvis Costello
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Intro :G Am G Am
SGhe ll fix you with an iAmron cross
AGnd cover you up with pAmetals
AGnd hang you up with some aAmmber beads
AGnd four or five precious mAmetals
AGnd in that black flamAmingo chair
YGou ll sit among her tAmrophies
AGnd pray to be aAmbandoned
TGill you don t know what hAmope is
BGut there s one tChing that I hEmad to keep insAmide
BGecause I was sChaking
Why dEmon t you get some pAmride
There was a cEmlown strike
AEmnd the clowns threw down their tools
But you dCon t have to play so hard
AEmnd I m nobody s fool
You don t hGave to go so fAm7ar
Cause I loGve yAm7ou as you aGre Am7
The bGig top is desAmerted now
And the cGircus girl rAmehearses
SGhe knows how to tAmurn their heads
And nGot fall between Amtwo horses
But aGll that seems a sAmimple step
IGf only I were aAmble
To lGove you like I wAmant to do
And nGot by some times tAmable
BGut there s one tChing that I hEmad to keep insAmide
BGecause I was sChaking
Why dEmon t you get some pAmride
There was a cEmlown strike
AEmnd the clowns threw down their tools
But you dCon t have to play so hard
AEmnd I m nobody s fool
You don t hGave to go so fAm7ar
Cause I loGve yAm7ou as you aGre Am7
And it s pCandemonium
For the hAm7umble and the mGighty
You don t hAmave to tGumblBe foCr me
ECmven a clown knows when to sEmtrike
TGell me what you wAmant of me
Or are you tGerrified of fAmailure?
YGou put on a superstAmitious face
BGehind all this paraphernAmalia
WGe re not living in a mAmasquerade
Where yGou only have three wAmishes
IGt isn't eAmasy to see
In a lGifetime of mistaken kAmisses
BGut there s one tChing that I hEmad to keep insAmide
BGecause I was sChaking
Why dEmon t you get some pAmride
There was a cEmlown strike
AEmnd the clowns threw down their tools
But you dCon t have to play so hard
AEmnd I m nobody s fool
You don t hGave to go so fAm7ar
Cause I loGve yAm7ou as you aGre Am7
In this it s pCandemonium
For the hAm7umble and the mGighty
You don t hAmave to tGumblBe foCr me
ECmven a clown knows when to sEmtrike