Learn Music Tab: Rodeo Clowns guitar chords - Jack Johnson tabs

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 			     RODEO CLOWNS (ALBUM) - Jack Johnson
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 Tuning: Standard
 
 Capo 2  - chords relative to capo
 		
 Chords: Bm,  E,  G (355433), F#
 (2 = alternate, no pinky fret - i.e. G2 = 353433)
 
 Intro:
 
 Bm2,  F#2,  G2,  E2
 
 Verse:
 
 Bm2
 sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah
 E2
 turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight
 G2
 nobodys romancing 'cause its too early for dancin
 F#2
 but here comes the music
 	
 Bm
 bright lights flashing to cover up your lack of so
 E
 many people, so many problems, so many reasons
                G
 to buy another round, drink it down
                F#
 just another night on the town
 
 Bm
 with the big man, money man, better than the other man
 E
 he got the plan with the million dollar give a damn
 G
 when nobody understands he'll become a smaller man
 F#
 the bright lights keep flashing, the women keep on dancing
 
 Chorus:
 
 Bm		F#					
 with the clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah...
 			 G	     E
 they pick me up when I'm down yeah-yeah
 Bm		F#				             	
 the rodeo clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah
 			 G	    E
 they pick me up when I'm down
 			
 Bm
 the disco ball spinning, all the music and the women
 E
 the shots of tequila, man they'll say that they need ya,
 G
 but what they really need
 F#
 is just a little room to breathe
 	
 
 Bm
 teeny bopping disco queen, she barely understands
 E
 her dreams of bellybutton rings and other kinds of things
 G
 symbolic of change but the thing that is strange
 F#
 is that the changes occurred...
 
 and now she's just a part of the
 
 Bm         F#
 herd....yeah, yeah, yeah, man I thought
 G		   E
 that you heard...yeah, yeah
 	    Bm      F#	
 the changes occurred, yeah, yeah, yeah, (yeah)
 		   G    E
 just a part of the herd
 	
 
 Bm                (n.c.)
 lights out, shut down, late night, wet ground
 E
 you walk by look at him, but he cant look at you, yeah
 G
 you might feel pity but he only feels the ground
 F#
 you understand moods but he only knows let down
 Bm
 by the corner there's another one
 E
 reaching out a hand, coming from a broken man, yeah
 G
 you try to live but he's done trying
 F#			 Bm    F#
 not dead, but definitely dying
 
 		     G	         E	
 with the rest of the clowns.....yeah, yeah
 Bm	           F#	                      G      E
 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmmm...Mmmmm with the rest of the clowns....
 
 Bm,  E,  G,  F#   (BONGO SOLO)
 
 
 Bm2
 sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah
 E2
 turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight
 G2
 nobody's romancing 'cause its too early for dancing
 F#2
 but here comes the music

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