Jack Johnson – Rodeo Clowns (Guitar)

Chords: Bm  E  G (355433) F#    
(2 = alternate, no pinky fret - i.e. G7 = 353433)

Bm
sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah

E2
turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight

G2
nobodys romancing 'cause its too early for dancin

F#2
but here comes the music

Bm
bright lights flashing to cover up your lack of so

E
many people, so many problems, so many reasons

         G
to buy another round, drink it down

                            F#
just another night on the town

         Bm
with the big man, money man, better than the other man

E
he got the plan with the million dollar give a damn

G
when nobody understands he'll become a smaller man

    F#
the bright lights keep flashing, the women keep on dancing

         Bm                         F#                                          
with the clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah...

                         G           E
they pick me up when I'm down yeah-yeah

          Bm                      F#                                             
the rodeo clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah 

                         G          E
they pick me up when I'm down

    Bm
the disco ball spinning, all the music and the women

    E
the shots of tequila, man they'll say that they need ya,

    G
but what they really need 

          F#
is just a little room to breathe

      Bm
teeny bopping disco queen, she barely understands

    E
her dreams of bellybutton rings and other kinds of things

   G
symbolic of change but the thing that is strange

            F#
is that the changes occurred...

Bm                      F#                                          
herd....yeah, yeah, yeah, man I thought 

         G             E
that you heard...yeah, yeah

            Bm                        F# 
the changes occurred, yeah, yeah, yeah, (yeah)

                   G    E
just a part of the herd

Bm                N.C.
lights out, shut down, late night, wet ground

E
you walk by look at him, but he cant look at you, yeah

G
you might feel pity but he only feels the ground

F#
you understand moods but he only knows let down

Bm
by the corner there's another one

E
reaching out a hand, coming from a broken man, yeah

G
you try to live but he's done trying

F#                       Bm    F#
not dead, but definitely dying

                     G                E     
with the rest of the clowns.....yeah, yeah

Bm                 F#                        G      E
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmmm...Mmmmm with the rest of the clowns....

Bm
sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah

E2
turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight

G2
nobody's romancing 'cause its too early for dancing

    F#2
but here comes the music