The Carny

Intro

Cdim (fade in, then at 0:27 play it 
14 times)
Fm/C (14 times)


Verse 1 (1:08)
Cm
And no-one saw the Carny go, the 
weeks flew by
Until they moved on the show, 
leaving his caravan behind
Fm/C
It was parked out on the south east 
ridge
And as the company crossed the 
bridge
With the first rain filling the 
      Cm
bone-dry river bed
It shone, just so, upon the edge, 
away, away, we're sad to say


Verse 2
Fm/C
Dog-boy, Atlas, Mandrake, the geeks,
 the hired hands
Cm
There was not one among them that 
did not cast an eye behind
In the hope that the Carny would 
return to his own kind


Bridge (2:02)
Cdim  (14 times)
Fm/C (12 times)


Verse 3
Cm
The Carny left behind a horse so 
skin and bone that he named Sorrow
                           Fm/C
And it was in a shallow, unmarked 
grave
That that old nag was laid in the 
then parched meadow


Verse 4
Cm
And it was the dwarves that were 
given the task of digging the ditch
And laying the nag's carcass in the 
ground
While boss Bellini, waved his 
smoking pistol around saying:
"The nag was dead meat"
Fm/C
"We can't afford to carry dead 
weight"
While the whole company standing 
about, not making a sound
And turning to the dwarves perched 
on the enclosure gate
Cm
The boss says: "Bury this lump of 
crow bait"


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Bridge (3:30)
Cdim (14 times)
Fm/C (12 times)


Verse 5
Cm
And the rain came hammering down
Everybody running for their wagons
Tying all the canvas flaps down
Fm/C
The mangy cats growling in their 
cages
The bird-girl flapping and squawking
 around


Verse 6
Cm
The whole valley reeking of wet 
beast
Wet beast and rotten, sodden hay
Freak and brute creation all
Packed up and on their way
Fm/C
The three dwarves peering from their
 wagon's hind
Moses says to Noah: "Shoulda dugga 
deepa one"
Their grizzled faces like dying 
moons
Still dirty from the digging done


Break (4:58)
Fm/C (Strummed 8 times)


Verse 7
Fm/C (Stummed 8 more times)
And Charlie the Atlas to the three 
said:
"I guess the Carny ain't gonna show"
And they were silent for a spell
wishing they'd done a better job of 
burying Sorrow


Bridge (5:23)
Cdim (12 times)


Verse 8
Cm
And the company passed from the 
valley into a higher ground
And the rain beat on the ridge and 
on the meadow and on the mound
Fm/C
Until nothing was left, nothing left
 at all
Except the body of Sorrow, that rose
 in time
To float upon the surface of the 
eaten soil


Bridge (6:06)
Cdim (12 times)


Verse 9
Cm
And a murder of crows did circle 
around
First one, then the others flapping 
blackly down


Bridge (6:33)
Cdim (8 times)


Verse 10
Cm
And the Carny's van still sat upon 
the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm ground 
turned to sludge


Bridge (6:56)
Cdim (8 times)


Outro
Cm
And the rain it hammered down
And the rain it hammered down
And the rain it hammered down
And the rain it hammered down


Bridge (7:18)
Cdim (8 times)


End
Fm/C
And no-one saw the Carny go
No-one saw the Carny go
No-one saw the Carny go
                            Cdim 
(play it 8 times and and on Cm)
I say, it's funny how things go...