Big Parade

Lovely girl won't you stay, won't 
you stay, stay with me

All my life I was blind, I was 
blind, now I see
  C          F        C     F   
Lovely girl won't you stay, 
      C     G         C
won't you stay, stay with me
  C         F     C      F     
All my life I was blind, I was 
C      G     C
blind, now I see

[Verse]
C                            
Fleet of black, fleet of black 
           G
limousines
                     F           
These tinted machines, here comes 
              C
the cavalcade
With the armored cars, armored cars 
             G
like berettas
                  F                
Flags on antennaes designed to keep
    C             G
 me safe, keep me safe

[Chorus]
C            G         C
And oh my my oh hey hey
F       C          G      C
Here he comes, the candidate
C              G            C
Blue eyed boy, united states
F        C        G       C
Vote for him, the candidate

[Verse]
C                                 
Diamonds cut, diamonds cut for the
       G
 carrots
                F                  
Plaster of paris, the floats fill 
          C
up the street
And the beauty queens, beauty queens
                   G
 with the white gloves
                         F         
All sick from the night clubs, they
                   C          G
 wave with pageantry, pageantry

[Chorus]
C            G         C
And oh my my oh hey hey
F       C          G       C
Here it comes, the big parade
Continúa después del anuncio
C                  G         C
Marching bands and barricades
F     C            G        C
Make way, for the big parade

[Bridge]

(Am G F    C G C F C G C)

[Verse]
C                                 
Canvas covered, canvas covered in 
    G
resin
               F                   
The violent men who dance the blood
     C
 ballet
And the bookies say, bookies say 
                G
it's the 3rd round
                          F      
Oh when louie will go down, if he 
                         C         
don't there's hell to pay, and hell
         G
 to raise

[Chorus]
C            G         C
And oh my my oh hey hey
F        C          G         C
Here he comes, the welterweight
C                  G         C
Take a dive, for goodness sake
F            C         G        C
Or say goodbye to the welterweight

[Verse]
C                                 
Catholic priest, catholic priest 
        G
in a crisis
                                  F
He's torn between romance and 
                          C
jesus, who will win the civil war
And he says I'm in love, I'm in love
            G
 with a woman
                        F     
Yea this is my confession, I'm 
                                C
leaving I can't a priest anymore, 
        G
anymore

[Chorus]
C            G        C
And oh my my oh hey hey
F           C   G            C
There he goes, the man of faith
C                  G       C
Left the church for a fiance
F          C    G            C
Let him love, the man of faith

[Bridge]

(Am G F    C G C F C G C)

[Verse]
C                                 
T.v. cameras, t.v. cameras and 
  G
stage hands
                 F                 C
American bandstand, electric guitars
And he's singin songs, singin songs 
            G
for the lonely
                               F 
All the girls with the room keys, 
                                C  
they know all his words by heart, 
        G
by heart and they all sing

[Interlude]
C
Lovely girl won't you stay, won't 
you stay, stay with me
C
All my life I was blind, I was 
blind, now I see
C             G          C   F 
Lovely girl won't you stay, 
         C    G         C
won't you stay, stay with me
C              G      C   
All my life I was blind, I was 
F        C   G     C
blind, now I see
Am              G        F
Lovely girl won't you stay, oh oh 
ohoh

[Chorus]
C         G       C
Oh my my oh hey hey
F           C     G          C
Here she comes by saving grace
C              G           C
Burn the car and save the plates
F           C   G           C
She's arrived, my saving grace