Wild Man From Borneo chords by Guy Clark

Chords with lyrics

Original by Kinky Friedman

Capo 2nd fret

INTRO
C majorC G+G FF C majorC
Spoken: But he ain't no freak, and I'm shure, he ain't no geek.

VERSE 1
     C majorC                  FF
He's the star of Captain Midnite's travelin' show
  C majorC            FF
He came to that circus many moons ago.
  FF                C majorC       FF
His mother's in your storybook, she loved a jungle king,
     C majorC          G+G
Left him standin' there alone inside the center ring.

VERSE 2
   C majorC                 FF
In a bamboo cage he crossed the ragin' sea,
 C majorC                FF
A augmentedA livin' page torn clean from history.
 FF            C majorC        FF
A augmentedA hairy, scary, 🏷Legendary screamin' souvenir,
C majorC                G+G
Don't you get too close to him, don't you get too near.

CHORUS
     FF         C majorC
He's the wild man from Borneo,
  E MajorE         FF
The wild man from Borneo.
  C majorC          G+G
We come to see what we wanna see,
    FF                C majorC
Ah, we come to see but we never come to know.

INSTRUMENTAL
FF C majorC E MajorE FF C majorC G+G FF C majorC

VERSE 3
  C majorC               FF
The tattooed lady left the circus train
C majorC              FF
Lost all her pictures in the rain.
  FF               C majorC         FF
He wonders if she's happy, as the midway lights grow dimmed
  FF                G+G
He wonders if she'll ever know the mark she left on him.

CHORUS
     FF         C majorC
He's the wild man from Borneo,
  E MajorE     FF
The wild man ...
  C majorC          G+G
We come to see what we wanna see,
    FF                C majorC
Ah, we come to see but we never come to know.

C majorC          G+G
You come to see what you want to see,
    FF                 C majorC
Ah, you come to see, but you never come to know.

G+G FF C majorC