Crack And Whistle

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Look at our reflections in the water
Making ripples, taking a drink
           D7
We used to come here when we were 
schoolboys
This ole water hole look like it's 
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changed much to you?
                 D7
Do you think the Lady of the Lake 
would even remember
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The battles we staged for her favor?
         A7
Do you remember it got so dark and 
late
We had to start the games the next 
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morning just to save her
         E
Leave it all for the crack and 
whistle
       F                         
Of the carnival train headed for 
A7
town

              A
Now there are children buying candy
Young girls talking all 'bout love &
 hate
     D
Boys spin from the high ride
A
Old man coming home late
D# D        D#  D
Outside the woodshed
D# D                      D#  D
Wondering what he's gonna say
A                                  
Mom's been asleep listening to the 
G
short waves
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             Riff (see below)
Hanging onto magazines from far away

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              A7
Look at our reflections in the 
mirror
Long and big and short and small
     D7
This funhouse gonna distort and 
shake
Worlds we might really never know at
 A7
 all
    D7
You think if we keep coming back
The carnival stay on the edge of 
         A7
town for keeps?
          D7                       
When everybody be happy, we all be 
                A7
laughing in the streets
      E
No, I couldn't conjure up a sadder 
sound
         F                       
Than the crack and whistle headed 
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for another town

A
Chickens don't know what bit 'em
The cousin of the little snake boy
    D
The twins there look like spacemen
        A
And the ponies look like toys
D# D                   D#  D
Peekin' underneath the sideshow tent
     D# D        D# D
Like looking for monsters 'neath the
 bed
A                        G
Junior's running home to mama
           Riff
I heard he won't come back here this
 year again

    A
The children line up for candy
Young girls whisper all about love &
 hate
        D
And the boys tell glory stories
                        A
Jobs and school started late
D
Carnival's packed and gone
Ahead of the names and the fames and
                   A
 the names and the rains (?)
        A                G
Mom and dad didn't go to bed last 
night
          Riff
They were out there playing out by 
the lake

See everybody knows they're home
Everybody knows they're home
Everybody knows they're home
Everybody knows they're home
So sit back, and learn, and learn
Play a slide trombone