Key: C
Introduction:
C C9 C/F C C9 C/F
Lend an ear I?ll tell you a story about a man who didn?t know how to be
C G C/F Dm
Joined a traveling circus from PEI to BC
C C9 C/F C C9 C/F
I was playing dead every morning, I was taking dives every night
C G C/F Dm
Then someone came and swept me off my feet in mid-flight
F C C9
Now without her love I really got nothing
F C G
Without her love I?d hang up my shoes
F Dm C/F G C
It?d be a world of suffering if this one I was ever to lose
F C C9
So I?m hanging on with all of my power
F C G
Hanging on as tight as a noose
F Dm C/F G C
Around the midnight hour she said ?remember that I?m easily bruised?
I had everything that I wanted. Had so much I threw it away