Jack Johnson - Rodeo Clowns ON AND ON (2006)
[C#m]SweepinÂ’ the floors
Open up the doors, yeah
[F#m]Turn on the lights
GettingÂ’ ready for the night
[A]Nobody's romancinÂ’
'Cause it's too early for dancinÂ’
But [Ab]here comes the music.
[C#m]Bright lights flashing they cover-up you
Like-a-so many [F#m]people so many problems so many reasons to buy -
[A]Another round drink it down just another night on the [Ab]town
With the [C#m]big man money man better than the other man
He [F#m]got the plan with the million-dollar give a damn
[A]When nobody understand he'll become a smaller man
The [Ab]bright lights keep flashing and the women keep on dancinÂ’
With the [C#m]clowns yeah, yeah, [Ab]yeah
Pick me up when I'm [A]down yeah, [F#m]yeah
Rodeo [C#m]clowns yeah, yeah, [Ab]yeah
Pick me up when I'm [A]down [F#m]
The [C#m]disco ball spinning all the music and the women
And the [F#m]shots and tequila man they say that they need ya
But [A]what they really need - is just a [Ab]little room to breathe
A teeny-[C#m]boppinÂ’ disco queen she barely understands
And [F#m]dreams of belly button rings and other kinds of things
Sym[A]bolic of change but the thing that is strange
Is that the [Ab]Changes occur
And now she's just a part of the [C#m]herd yeah, yeah, [Ab]yeah
Man I thought that you [A]heard yeah, [F#m]yeah
The changes oc[C#m]curred yeah, yeah, [Ab]yeah
She's just a part of the [A]herd [F#m]
[C#m]Lights out shut down late night wet ground
You [F#]walk by look at him but he can't look at you yeah
[A]You might feel pity but he only feels the ground
[Ab]You understand booze but he only knows let down
[C#m]By the corner there's another one
[F#]Reaching out a hand coming from a broken man, well
[A]You try to live but he's done tryinÂ’
[Ab]Not dead but definitely [C#m]dyin'
[Ab]With the rest of the [A]clowns yeah, [F#m]yeah
Mmm, mm mm [C#m]mmm, mmm [Ab]mm
With the rest of the [A]clowns [F#m]
[C#m]SweepinÂ’ the floors
Open up the doors, yeah
[F#m]Turn on the lights
GettingÂ’ ready for the night
[A]Nobody's romancinÂ’
'Cause it's too early for dancinÂ’
But [Ab]here comes the music.
