Quick info to help you out if you don't know what time signature is you should Google it cause 
its a major thing if you want to play this song easier!


Tuning: standard, capo on 5

Time signature: 3/4 (this helps trust me)

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

  Em        D           G
Horatio the human cannonball.

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

Em              D            G
Sideshow family oddities and all.

    C             Em              D
The dog-faced boy howled out with joy

       Am       G        D
As the tattooed lady was crying.

     G         D            Em             C
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         G   D        G
It takes all kinds of kinds.

G                             C
Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons



    Em              D              G
And dresses that he wore on Friday nights.

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

   Em           D             G
Concocted to suppress her appetite.

         C                            Em            D
When the children were fiddlin' she'd slip 'em some Ritalin

    Am            G         D
And wait for Thomasina to arrive.

           G         D            Em             C
Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         G   D        Em      C
It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

G   D        G
All kinds of kinds.


SOLO: G   G   C  G  /  G   G   D  
      G   G   C  G  /  G   D   G  

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

  Em               D               G
I take a break and think about the past.

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

    Em          D             G
And I tossed my test into the trash.

  C                             Em           D
I scratched off my number while hitching out under

     Am          G          D
That bush league population sign.

     G         D            Em             C
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         G   D        G
It takes all kinds of kinds.

    C                           Em        D
Now some point a finger and let ignorance linger

          Am          G             D      C   G   Am
If they'd look in the mirror they'd find.

          G         D            Em             C
That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning

         G   D        Em     C
It takes all kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

G   D        Em      C 
All kinds of kinds. (All kinds of kinds)

G   D        G
All kinds of kinds.

SOLO/END: G   G   C  G  /  G   G   D 
          G   G   C  G  /  G   D   G