C  F  C  F  C  F  C  F  C  F  C

[Verse]
   F             C    F  C
If I've been too far
   F             C     F  C
If I've seen too much
               G        F
Working in the shadows
                   C      F  C
Of your big Ferris wheel

[Verse]
          F            C       F  C
It's been ten thousand nights
       F           C          F  C
In the sawdust and mud shows
               G     F
Walking a tightrope
                 C     F  C
For a room and a meal

[Chorus]
        F            C   F  C
I said, don't look down
    F               C        F  C
The ground might be burning
                  G           F
We're turning the corner now
                    C  F  C
We might run into god

[Verse]
         F                  C   F  C
From the plains of the buffalo
       F            C       F  C
To the wild dogs of Mexico
                        G            F
And the loves that have laid us low
                      C     F  C    F  C
We gotta leave that behind

[Verse]
        F             C        F  C
Oh, the rhymes of the rangers
        F           C          F  C
And the kindness of strangers
                   G        F
I have run all the changes
                 C      F  C
Of the Chickasaw waltz

[Verse]
       F            C      F  C
Tasted lipstick and nylon
         F         C    F  C
Seen the mental asylum
                      G         F
Turned my back on the violence
                     C     F  C
Before I turned into salt

[Chorus]
        F            C   F  C
I said, don't look down
    F               C        F  C
The ground might be burning
                  G           F
We're turning the corner now
                    C  F   C
We might run into god

[Verse]
         F            C       F  C
From the rivers of Idaho, yeah
       F            C       F  C
To the wild dogs of Mexico
                        G                F
And the loves that have laid us all low
                      C      F  C
We gotta leave that behind

[Bridge]
   Bb
St Mary, Mother of Patience
      Am
Saint Joseph of the hammer and the nail
     Bb
Come build me a ladder
Bb
To the heart of the matter
      F
High above the moon tonight
        C
On this carnival trail

[Instrumental]
Bb    Am    Bb    Am   F  G  C     F  C

[Verse]
      F            C       F  C
She's still in the corner
      F           C       F  C
Right next to her mother
                G        F
Sir Douglas her brother
                C      F  C
Since she was a child

[Verse]
        F             C      F  C
And the difference in years
    F              C      F  C
And people's cheap fears
                   G       F
And their magazine tears
                  C     F   C
Drove us into the wild

[Chorus]
        F            C   F  C
I said, don't look down
    F               C        F  C
The ground might be burning
                  G           F
We're turning the corner now
                    C  F   C
We might run into god

[Verse]
         F                  C   F  C
From the plains of the buffalo
       F            C       F  C
To the wild dogs of Mexico
                       G            F
To the loves that have laid us low
                      C     F  C
We gotta leave that behind

[Chorus]
        F            C   F  C
I said, don't look down
        F            C   F  C
I said, don't look down
                   G   F
Yeah, don't look down
                      C     F  C
We gotta leave that behind