Capo 3
 
A 
Ilsa was an acrobat 
A 
Who went and fell in love with that 
A                    E	          	A 
Horatio the human cannonball 
A 
A wedding 'neath the big-top tent 
A 
With Barkers, clowns and elephants 
A			E          	A 
Sideshow and the oddities and all 
D		           		A 
The dog-faced boy howled out with joy 
D		           		E 
As the tattooed lady was cryin' 
A			         		D	A 
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning 
A	        	E        	A 
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 
Concoted to suppress her appetite 
And when the children were fiddlin' 
She'd slip 'em some Ridalin  
And wait for thomasina to arrive 
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning 
It takes all kinds of kinds 
All kinds of kinds 

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-lee population sign 
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning 
It takes all kinds of kinds 

D	                   		E 
Some point the finger let ignorance linger 
A	               				E 
If they'd look in the mirror they'd find 
A		                  			D	 A 
That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning 
A	           	E          	Em 
It takes all kinds of kinds 
A	          E	    D 
All kinds of kinds  
A      	E       	A 
All kinds of kinds 

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