Occasionally on the A chord he does this: 
 
e | --0--------0---- 
b | --2--------3----   He just hammers on the second part 
g | --2---to---2----   so dont' hold on to it.  Hope that  
d | --2--------4----   explains it. 
a | --0--------0---- 
E | --0--------0---- 
 
A5 
My landlady treats me like I don't pay my rent  
A5 
Gave my car to my mechanic, I ain't seen it since  
A5 
My phone is always ringing, when I want to be alone  
A5 
They try and sell me everything from Heaven to cologne  
     D5                             A5 
Everybody's got an offer I can't refuse  
         E5                                                  A5 
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues  
 
  
A5 
It's all a big commercial; It's a video of a man  
A5 
It's a plot to put an end to my attention span  
A5 
They make up all these issues, I never understood  
A5 
If I thought I could change things I'd run out to Hollywood  
          D5                                                A5 
But it's hard to kick the door down wearing seven dollar shoes  
         E5                                                  A5 
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues  
 
  
                 D5 
I've got them sideshow blues  
           D5 
I want to tame the lions  
        A5 
These center ring rich kids ain't even trying  
        D5 
From college to the big top they take the best positions  
           E5 
While I'm out in this tent with these freaks and musicians  
           E5 
While I'm out in this tent with these freaks and musicians  
                            A5 
I'm moaning them sideshow blues  
 
 (solo)  
 
I try to tell my girlfriend she's the only one that I've got  
This chick I hardly knows keeps on telling her she's not  
She got a loaded pistol, she waves it all the time  
Says some times you gotta kill a boy to keep his ass in line  
Well that's the way she sees it, she says she saw it on the news  
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues  
  
 
See people play satanic records, and you don't know when they'll freak  
From quiet kid to maniac to movie of the week  
We're killing over cocaine, dying over sex  
We're bowing down and praying to who'll ever cuts the check  
When I go to church on Sunday, I can't help sleep in the pews (that's what I do)  
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues  
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues  
It's a circus out here mama, Your baby's got the sideshow blues  
It's a circus people...Step Right Up