JOIN THE CIRCUS      (by Ed Volker)

VERSE:
G                          C                   F F# G
I'm gonna join the circus, I'm gonna circulate
G                          C
I'm gonna join the circus, I hope it's not to late
D ("circus riff")
There's a black-haired beauty breathing fire

Waiting for me up on the high wire
Em  D   C   D      G
Oh, oh, oh, circus life.


Babe, I've been your clown a little bit too long
If a clown I must be, believe I'm going on
With the lions and the tigers and the kangaroos
All the fortune tellers baby you come through
Oh, oh, oh, circus life.


CHORUS:
G                  Em D Em                    G
I'm gonna join the circus, I'm gonna join the band,
G                  Em D Em          F        C        D
I'm gonna join the circus, with the moon all over the land


[instrumental break]:   G  D  D  G  G  D  D


I wanna be a lion shinin' in the night
I long to be a song that ain't got no home
Wandering along the sea shore
For about a thousand years or more
Oh, oh, oh, circus life.

[repeat CHORUS]

[instrumental]: twice through the verse chords

[repeat CHORUS]

I'm gonna join the circus, I'm gonna circulate
I'm gonna join the circus, I hope it's not to late
There's a black-eyed beauty breathing fire
Waiting for me up on the high wire
Oh, oh, oh, circus life.
Oh, oh, oh, circus life.
Oh, oh, oh, circus life.
Oh, oh, oh, circus life.


transcribed by Alan Sigman (alansigman@earthlink.net)
please email me with any corrections or different interpretations.