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        G  G  D
        G  G  Cadd9  G
        G  D  G 

G                       Cadd9
Ilsa was an acrobat who went and fell in love with that

  Em        D           G
Horatio the human cannonball.

  G                                    Cadd9
A weddin' 'neath the big top tent with barkers clowns and elephants

Em              D            G
Sideshow family oddities and all.

    Cadd9         Em              D
The dog-faced boy howled out with joy

       Am       G        D/F#
As the tattooed lady was crying.

     G         D            Em             Cadd9
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         G   D        G
It takes all kinds of kinds.


G                             Cadd9
Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons

    Em              D              G
And dresses that he wore on Friday nights.


G                           Cadd9
Phyllis was a pharmacist, a dab of that, a pinch of this

   Em           D             G
Concocted to suppress her appetite.

         Cadd9                        Em            D
When the children were fiddlin' she'd slip 'em some Ritalin

    Am            G         D/F#
And wait for Thomasina to arrive.

           G         D            Em             Cadd9
Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         G   D        Em      Cadd9
It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

G   D        G
All kinds of kinds.

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      G       Cadd9  G  /  G   D   G          /


     G                           Cadd9
When I play this old guitar from children's shows to smoky bars

  Em               D               G
I take a break and think about the past.

       G                        Cadd9
When I stood up in geometry and everybody stared at me

    Em          D             G
And I tossed my test into the trash.


  Cadd9                         Em           D
I scratched off my number while hitching out under

     Am          G          D/F#
That bush league population sign.

     G         D            Em             Cadd9
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         G   D        G
It takes all kinds of kinds.


    Cadd9                       Em        D
Now some point a finger and let ignorance linger

          Am          G             D   Cadd9   G/B   Am
If they'd look in the mirror they'd find.

          G         D            Em             Cadd9
That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         G   D        Em   Cadd9
It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

G   D        Em   Cadd9
All kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

G   D        G
All kinds of kinds.