Circus
Words & music by John Denver, Michael Johnson & Laurie Kuehn
from Rhymes And Reasons (1969)
Capo Up 2 Frets
Unusual Chords:
C/G : 3X2|13
G/F# : 22|||3
Am7/G : 3X2|1|
D/F# : 2||232
CM7 : X32|||
A/G : 3X222X
G C/G
If I look like home to you
G G/F# Em
and if I am your sign
G C/G
Don' try to understand it girl
Am7 Am7/G D/F#
When I draw the line
G C/G
It hasn't come to this
G C CM7
That you can say I waste my time
G C D
Lookin' ev'-ry-where
G
Goin' nowhere (Coda on Repeat)
G C/G
1. For the skies, they look so lazy now
2. Because I lost what I was look-in' for
G G/F# Em
1. And heavy are the clouds
2. There's nothing left to share
G C/G
1. There's noth-ing here that I can learn
2. I need to take my - self away
Am7 Am7/G D/F#
1. Of what it's all about
2. To be some oth-er- where
G C/G
1. You haven't said a thing to me
2. A face, a life, a min-ute more
G C Cmaj7
1. And you talk so ve - ry loud
2. I dont think I can spare
G C D
1. Lookin' ev' - ry - where
2. Lookin' ev' - ry - where
G
1. Goin' nowhere
2. Goin' nowhere
Bm(addG)
1. Well, I think I'll try the circus
2. 'Cause I tell you when you hurt me
C
1. Or go back to Mexico
2. and you just don't seem to know
Bm(addG)
1. It's time to make mistakes again
2. And I in - form you when I'm lonely
Am7 Am7/G D/F#
1. It's time to change the show.
2. And you still don't think I'll go
G C/G
1. It's time and time and time again
2. So if I lie to you, and smile a thought
G Am Bm(addG)
1. To find an-oth - er way
2. That's on - ly half-way here
C
1. It's time to ga - ther forces
2. It's just a cir - cus and I'm singing
A A/G D/F#
1. And get out of yes-ter-day
2. And I'm nev-er real-ly near
Repeat First verse take Coda
Coda
G C D
Lookin' ev' - ry - where
G C D
Lookin' ev' - ry - where
G C D
Lookin' ev' - ry - where
G
Goin' nowhere
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