Sideshow Blues chords by Todd Snider

Chords with lyrics

Sideshow Blues
By: Todd Snider


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My landlady treats me like I don't pay my rent
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Gave my car to my mechanic, I ain't seen it since
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My phone is always ringing, when I want to be alone
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They try and sell me everything from Heaven to cologne
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Everybody's got an offer I can't refuse
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It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues

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It's all a big commercial, It's a video of a man
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It's a plot to put an end to my attention span
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They make up all these issues, I never understood
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If I thought I could change things I'd run out to Hollywood
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But it's hard to kick the door down wearing seven dollar shoes
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It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues


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I've got them sideshow blues
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I want to tame the lions
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These center ring rich kids ain't even trying
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From college to the big top they take the best positions
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While I'm out in this tent with these freaks and musicians
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While I'm out in this tent with these freaks and musicians
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I'm moaning them sideshow blues

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I try to tell my girlfriend she's the only one that I've got
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This chick I hardly knows keeps on telling her she's not
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She got a loaded pistol, she waves it all the time
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Says some times you gotta kill a boy to keep his ass in line
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Well that's the way she sees it, she says she saw it on the news
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It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues


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See people play satanic records, and you don't know when they'll freak
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From quiet kid to maniac to movie of the week
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We're killing over cocaine, dying over sex
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We're bowing down and praying to who'll ever cuts the check
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When I go to church on Sunday, I can't help sleep in the pews (that's what I do)
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It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues
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It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues
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It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues
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It's a circus people...Step Right Up