Patty Griffin

Trapeze Chords

by Patty Griffin
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(Capo 3) <span>G <span>C <span>G Little pink dress, hanging by her knees <span>C <span>G Just overhead on the old trapeze <span>C <span>G <span>Em In the old tent tonight, spotlight going round <span>D <span>C <span>G One of these nights the old girl's going down <span>D <span>G Hallelujah, the old girl's going down <span>G She started with us on the back of a horse <span>C <span>G Just seventeen and already divorced <span>C <span>G <span>Em She took to the air with the greatest of ease <span>D <span>C <span>G Like she was born to be gliding on the old trapeze
<span>C <span>G Some people don't care if they live or they die <span>D <span>G Some people want to know what it feels like to fly <span>C <span>Em <span>D Gather their courage and they give it a try <span>G Some guy broke her heart and how her heart it did ache <span>C <span>G So she went to the tent of the lady of the snakes <span>C <span>G <span>Em Who gave her a potion and she drank it in <span>D <span>C <span>G After that her heart never ached again <span>D <span>G After that her heart never ached again <span>C <span>G Some people don't care if they live or they die <span>D <span>G Some people want to know what it feels like to fly <span>C <span>Em Gather their courage and they give it a try <span>D Fall under the wheels of a time goin' by <span>G <span>C <span>G Little pink dress, hanging by her knees <span>C <span>G Just overhead on the old trapeze <span>C <span>G <span>Em In the old tent tonight, spotlight going round <span>D <span>C <span>G One of these nights the old girl's going down <span>D <span>C <span>G Yeah. one of these nights the old girl's going down (x3) <span>D <span>C <span>G Ha----le----e----e (x3) <span>D Hallelujah Hallelujah etc

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Last Updated: February 17, 2026