D
There's a down town fairy singing out "Proud Mary"
A                D
as she cruises Christopher Street
A
And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean
                    D
where the docks and the Badlands meet

Bm                     G
This Halloween is something to be sure
Bm                    G
Especially to be here without you

A
There's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcock
             D
and some black Jamaican stud
A
There's five Cinderellas and some leather drags
             D
I almost fell into my mug
Bm                          G
There's a Crawford, Davis and a tacky Cary Grant
Bm                    G                A
And some Homeboys lookin' for trouble down here from the Bronx


D
But there ain't no Hairy and no Virgin Mary
                  G
you won't hear those voices again
D
And Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita
                   G
you'll never see those faces again
Em                    C
This Halloween is something to be sure
Em                   C
Especially to be here without you


D
There's the Born Again Losers and the Lavender Boozers
                    G
and some crack team from Washington Heights
D
The boys from Avenue B and the girls from Avenue D
             G
a Tinkerbell in tights
Em                  C
This celebration somehow get me down
Em                  C   D
Especially when I see you're not around

G
There's no Peter Pedantic saying things romantic
            C
in Latin, Greek or Spic
G
There's no Three bananas or Brandy Alexander
              C
dishing all their tricks
Am                           F
It's a different feeling that I have today
Am                      F
Especially when I know you've gone away

G
There's a girl from Soho with a teeshirt saying "I Blow"
                    C
she's with the "jive five 2 plus 3"
G
And the girls for pay dates are giving cut rates
             C
or else doing it for free
Am                         F
The past keeps knock, knock, knocking on my door
Am                   F     G
And I don't want to hear it anymore


C
No consolations please for feelin' funky
                    F
I got to get my head above my knees
C
But it makes me mad and mad makes me sad
               F
and then I start to freeze
Dm                             Bb
In the back of my mind I was afraid it might be true
Dm                             Bb     C#
In the back of my mind I was afraid that they meant you

F    Bb     C
The Halloween Parade
F     Bb      C
At the Halloween parade
F     Bb      C
At the Halloween parade
F        Bb             C
See you next year, at the Halloween parade