Rodeo Clowns Chords by Jack Johnson

[Start]

[Intro]
E C E F# A E C#m7
■ ■ ■ ■  ■ ■ ■   


[Verse]
C#m7                                      
Sweepin' the floors open up the doors yeah
C#m7                                          
Turn on the lights gettin' ready for the night
A                                                   
Nobody's romancin' 'cause it's too early for dancin'
G#                      
But here comes the music
C#m                   
Bright lights flashing
     C#m7                 F#7                         
They cover up you like so many people so many problems
                   A                              
So many reasons to buy another round drink it down
                          G#   G#7
Just another night on the town ■  
G#          C#m                                        
■  With the big man money man better than the other man
F#                                                 
He got the plan with the million dollar give a damn
A                                          
When nobody understand become a smaller man
    G#                         
The bright lights keep flashin'
                               C#m              G#       
Women keep on dancin' with the clowns yeah yeah yeah yeah
                    A         F#  
Pick me up when I'm down yeah yeah
          C#m                       
The rodeo clowns yeah yeah yeah yeah
G#7                 A    F#
Pick me up when I'm down ■ 
    C#m                              
The disco ball spinnin' all the music
                      F#              
And the women and the shots of tequila
            F#                   
Man they'll say that they need ya
A                               G#                    
What they really need is just a little room to breathe
        C#m                                       
A teeny boppin' disco queen she barely understands
    F#                                                    
Her dreams of belly button rings and other kinds of things
A                                               
Symbolic of change but the thing that is strange
            G#7     G#      
Is that the changes occurred
                                 C#m            G#  
And now she's just a part of the herd yeah yeah yeah
                       A         
Man I thought that you heard yeah
F#          C#m                G#  
The changes occurred yeah yeah yeah
                       A    F#
She's just part of the herd ■ 


[Chorus]
F#                                        
Lights out shut down late night wet ground
         F#                                          
You walk by look at him but he can't look at you yeah
A                                               
You might feel pity but he only feels the ground
G#                                         C#m7
You understand moods but he only knows let down
       C#m7                      
By the corner there's another one
F#7                                         
Reaching out a hand coming from a broken man
     A                                   
Well you try to live but he's done trying
G#                      C#m  
Not dead but definitely dying
G#7                  A           F#  
With the rest of the clowns yeah yeah
C#m       G#7                      A     
Mmmmmmmmm ■   with the rest of the clowns
F#7 C#m G#7 A C#m G#7 A F#7
■   ■   ■   ■ ■   ■   ■ ■  


[Outro]
C#m                             F#        
Sweepin' the floors open up the doors yeah
        F#                                    
Turn on the lights gettin' ready for the night
A                                            A7     
Nobody's romancin' 'cause it's too early for dancin'
         G#             
But here comes the music