A5
Look at our reflections in the water

Making ripples, taking a drink
           D5
We used to come here when we were schoolboys
                                                   A5
This ole water hole look like it's changed much to you?
                 D5
Do you think the Lady of the Lake would even remember
                              A5
The battles we staged for her favor? 
         A5
Do you remember it got so dark and late
                                                   A5
We had to start the games the next morning just to save her
         E5
Leave it all for the crack and whistle
       F5                         A5
Of the carnival train headed for town


              A5
Now there are children buying candy

Young girls talking all 'bout love & hate
     D5
Boys spin from the high ride
A5
Old man coming home late
D#5 D5        D#5  D5
Outside the woodshed
D#5 D5                      D#5  D5
Wondering what he's gonna say
A5                                  G5
Mom's been asleep listening to the short waves
             Riff (see below)
Hanging onto magazines from far away

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              A5
Look at our reflections in the mirror

Long and big and short and small
     D5
This funhouse gonna distort and shake
                                     A5
Worlds we might really never know at all
    D5
You think if we keep coming back
                                          A5
The carnival stay on the edge of town for keeps?
          D5                                       A5
When everybody be happy, we all be laughing in the streets
      E5
No, I couldn't conjure up a sadder sound
         F5                                    A5
Than the crack and whistle headed for another town


A5
Chickens don't know what bit 'em

The cousin of the little snake boy
    D5
The twins there look like spacemen
        A5
And the ponies look like toys
D#5 D5                   D#5  D5
Peekin' underneath the sideshow tent
     D#5 D5        D#5 D5
Like looking for monsters 'neath the bed
A5                        G5
Junior's running home to mama
           Riff
I heard he won't come back here this year again


    A5
The children line up for candy

Young girls whisper all about love & hate
        D5
And the boys tell glory stories
                        A5
Jobs and school started late
D5
Carnival's packed and gone
                                                       A5     
Ahead of the names and the fames and the names and the rains (?)
        A5                G5
Mom and dad didn't go to bed last night
          Riff
They were out there playing out by the lake

See everybody knows they're home
Everybody knows they're home
Everybody knows they're home
Everybody knows they're home
So sit back, and learn, and learn
Play a slide trombone