Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

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

 Horatio the human cannonball.

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

Sideshow family oddities and all.

 The dog-faced boy howled out with joy

 As the tattooed lady was crying.

 Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

 It takes all kinds of kinds.

Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons

 And dresses that he wore on Friday nights.

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

 Concocted to suppress her appetite.

 When the children were fiddlin' she'd slip 'em some Ritalin

 And wait for Thomasina to arrive.

 Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

 It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

All kinds of kinds.

Solo

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

 I take a break and think about the past.

 When I stood up in geometry and everybody stared at me

 And I tossed my test into the trash.

 I scratched off my number while hitching out under

 That bush league population sign.

 Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

 It takes all kinds of kinds.

 Now some point a finger and let ignorance linger

 If they'd look in the mirror they'd find.

 That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

 It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

All kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

All kinds of kinds.

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