Chords for Halloween Parade

[A] There's a downtown fair singing out proud Mary [D] as she cruises Christopher Street
And [A] some southern Queen is acting [D] loud and mean where the docks and the badlands meet
[Bm] This Halloween is something to [G] be sure _ _
_ [Bm] Especially to be here [G] without you _
[A] There's Greta Garbo and an Alfred [D] Hitchcock in some black Jamaican stud
[A] There's five Cinderella's and some leather [D] drags I almost fell into my mug
[Bm] There's Crawford Davis and a tacky [G] Cary Grant _
[Bm] And some homeboys looking for trouble down [G] here from the Bronx
[A] _
[D] But there ain't no Harry and no Virgin [G] Mary you won't hear those voices again
[D] And Johnny Rio and Rotten [G] Rita you never see those faces again
[Em] This Halloween is something to be sure
[C] _ _
_ [Em] Especially to be here without [C] you _
_ [D] There's the born-again losers and the lavender bruises and [G] some crack team from Washington Heights
[D] The boys from Avenue B the girls from Avenue D [G] a jinker bell and ties
_ [Gbm] [Em] this celebration
Somehow [C] gets me down _
_ [Em] Especially when I see [C] you're not around
[E] _
[G] There's no Peter pedantic saying things [C] romantic in Latin Greek or spic
There's [G] no three bananas or Brandi Alexander [C] dishing all their tricks
[Am] It's a different feeling that [F] I have today _
_ [A] Especially [Em] when I know [F] you've gone away _
[G] There's a girl from Soho with a t-shirt saying I blow [C] she's with the job five two plus three [G] and the girl for paydates
Giving cut [C] rates else doing it for free
[Am] The past keeps knock knock knocking [F] on my door, and _ [Am] I don't want to hear it [F] anymore
_ [G] _
[C] No consolations, [Em] please
Funky [F] I gotta get my head above my knees
[C] But it makes me mad and mad makes me [F] sad and then I start to freeze
[Dm] In the back of my mind.
I was afraid it [Bb] might be true _
[Dm] In the back of my mind, I was afraid that [Bb] they meant you [C]
the [F] _ _ Halloween [Bb] parade
[C] _
_ [F] _ At the
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] See you next year
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_ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ Wow
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [F] _ _ _