Just another way to play it, if you're a guy trying to sing it I would highly 
recommend playing it this
 way. It makes it a lot easier to sing it in the lower octave.

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INTRO: D  D  G  D  
       D  D  A
       D  D  G  D
       D  A  D 

D                       G
Ilsa was an acrobat who went and fell in love with that

  Bm        A           D
Horatio the human cannonball.

  D                                    G
A weddin' 'neath the big top tent with barkers clowns and elephants

Bm              A            D
Sideshow family oddities and all.

    G             Bm              A
The dog-faced boy howled out with joy

       Em       D        A/C#
As the tattooed lady was crying.

     D         A            Bm             G
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         D   A        D
It takes all kinds of kinds.


D                             G
Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons

    Bm              A              D
And dresses that he wore on Friday nights.


D                           G
Phyllis was a pharmacist, a dab of that, a pinch of this

   Bm           A             D
Concocted to suppress her appetite.

         G                            Bm            A
When the children were fiddlin' she'd slip 'em some Ritalin

    Em            D         A/C#
And wait for Thomasina to arrive.

           D         A            Bm             G
Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         D   A        Bm      G
It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)
D   A        D
All kinds of kinds.

SOLO: D       G  D  /  D       A          /
      D       G  D  /  D   A   D          /


     D                           G
When I play this old guitar from children's shows to smoky bars

  Bm               A               D
I take a break and think about the past.

       D                        G
When I stood up in geometry and everybody stared at me

    Bm          A             D
And I tossed my test into the trash.


  G                             Bm           A
I scratched off my number while hitching out under

     Em          D          A/C#
That bush league population sign.

     D         A            Bm             G
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         D   A        D
It takes all kinds of kinds.


    G                           Bm        A
Now some point a finger and let ignorance linger

          Em          D             A   G       D/F#   Em
If they'd look in the mirror they'd find.

          D         A            Bm             G
That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         D   A        Bm   G
It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

D   A        Bm   G
All kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

D   A        D
All kinds of kinds.

SOLO/END: D       G  D  /  D       A          /
          D       G  D  /  D   A   D          / repeat until end