RODEO CLOWNS
Jack Johnson

INTRO: C#m  F#   A   G#  (2x)   (Note: All chords can optionally/occasionally be 7ths)

VERSE 1:
C#m
Sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah
F#
Turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight
A
Nobody's romancing 'cause it's too early for dancing
    G#
But here comes the music

VERSE 2:
Bright lights flashing to cover up your lack of
So many people, so many problems, so many reasons
To buy another round, drink it down
Just another night on the town

VERSE 3:
With the big man, money man, better than the other man
He got the plan with the million dollar give a damn
When nobody understands, he'll become a smaller man
The bright lights keep flashing, the women keep on dancing

CHORUS:
         C#m                 G#
With the clowns, Yeah, yeah, yeah
                         A           F#
They pick me up when I'm down, Yeah, yeah
          C#m                 G#
The Rodeo Clowns, Yeah, yeah, yeah
                         A       F#
They pick me up when I'm down

VERSE 4:
The disco ball spinning, all the music and the women and
The shots of Tequila, man they'll say that they need ya
But what they really need
Is just a little room to breath

VERSE 5:
Teeny bopping disco queen, she barely understands
Her dreams of bellybutton rings and other kinds of things
Symbolic of change but the thing that is strange
Is that the changes occurred

CHORUS:
And now she's just a part of the herd, Yeah, yeah, yeah
Man I thought that you heard, Yeah, yeah
The changes occurred, Yeah, yeah, yeah
Just a part of the herd

VERSE 6:
Lights out, shut down, late night, wet ground
You walk by look at him but he can't look at you, yeah
You might feel pity but he only feels the ground
You understand moods, but he only knows let down

VERSE 7:
By the corner there's another one
Reaching out a hand, coming from a broken man, well
You try to live but he's done trying
Not dead but definitely dying

CHORUS:
With the rest of the clowns, Yeah, yeah
Mm, mm, mm, mmm, mm, mmm, mm
With the rest of the clowns

SOLO:  E     G#    A     F#   (4x, last time hang on A for extra measure)
       CHORUS chords while whistling / soloing the chorus melody

CHORUS:
The Rodeo Clowns, Yeah, yeah, yeah
They pick me up when I'm down, Yeah, yeah
The Rodeo Clowns, Yeah, yeah, yeah
They pick me up when I'm down

VERSE 8:
Sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah
Turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight
Nobody's romancing 'cause it's too early for dancing
But here comes the music