Chords for Billy Joel - The Entertainer (from Tonight - Connecticut 1976)

_ _ _ _ _ _ Let's call the entertainer. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Am] I won't be here in another year.
[D] I don't stay [G] out for jobs.
_ _ _ _ _ I'm the _ [Em] entertainer.
I pay my [C] price.
Things I did not [G] know at first.
[C] I learned by doing [G] twice.
Obviously they come to haunt me.
[E] Still they want [C] their place.
So I learned to dance [D] with a hammer and a rake.
[A] I let them go to my neck [C] and I write on my check.
[D] They will [G] bury me.
I'm the entertainer.
I won't be here in another year.
I don't stay out for jobs. _ _ _
I'm the entertainer.
[C] I've been all around the world.
Played all [G] kinds of palaces.
Played all [D] kinds of [G] girls.
Can't remember faces.
[C] I don't remember names.
But what the [D] hell you know it's just as well.
Cause after a [C] while and a thousand miles.
[D] There's nothing to [G] say. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I'm the entertainer.
I'll sing to you [C] my songs.
I like to [G] spend the day on the road.
I like to go to the mall too.
[C] But I can't stay that long.
[G] No I got to meet expenses.
[C] I got to stay in line.
Gotta get those fees [D] to the agencies.
And [Am] I love to stay but [C] there's bills to pay.
[D] Lord I just don't know how [G] to buy. _
_ _ _ _ _ I am the entertainer.
_ I'm to do [C] my show.
You heard my [B] latest record.
It's been on the [D] radio.
[G] All to me is to write.
I wrote the best years of [C] my life.
It was a beautiful song.
[D] But it ran too long.
[Am] If you're gonna have a [C] hit.
You gotta make it [D] fit solid. _
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I am the entertainer.
[D] The idol [C] of my age.
I make all [G] kinds of money.
When I go [D] on the stage.
[G] Well you see me in the papers.
[C] Been in the magazines.
But if I [D] don't go.
I won't get [Am] sold.
I get put in a [C] black and a discount [D] rack.
Like I'm gonna [G] pay the fees. _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm the entertainer.
_ [C] I know [A] just where [C] I stand.
I know the terror in [G] _ _
[D] their head.
_ I am the champion.
[C] They never won your hearts.
[C] But I know the game.
[D] They never get in the name.
[Am] I won't be [C] here another year.
[D] I can see all [G] the thoughts.
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