Halloween Parade

{title: Halloween Parade}
{artist: Lou Reed}

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[A]There's a downtown fairy singing out "Proud Mary" [D]as she cruises Christopher Street 
[A]And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean [D]where the docks and the Badlands meet
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[Bm]This Halloween is something to be [G]sure
[Bm]Especially to be here [G]without [A]you
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{start_of_verse}
[A]There's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcock [D]and some black Jamaican stud
[A]There's five Cinderellas and some leather drags [D]I almost fell into my mug
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{start_of_bridge}
[Bm]There's a Crawford, Davis and a tacky Cary [G]Grant
[Bm]And some Homeboys lookin' for trouble down [G]here from the [A]Bronx
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{start_of_chorus}
[D]But there ain't no Hairy and no Virgin Mary [G]you won't hear those voices again
[D]And Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita [G]you'll never see those faces again
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{start_of_bridge}
[Em]This Halloween is something to be [C]sure
[Em]Especially to be here [C]without [D]you
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{start_of_verse}
[D]There's the Born Again Losers and the Lavender Boozers [G]and some crack team from Washington Heights
[D]The boys from Avenue B and the girls from Avenue D [G]a Tinkerbell in tights
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{start_of_bridge}
[Em]This celebration somehow get me [C]down
[Em]Especially when I see you're [C]not [G]around
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{start_of_verse}
[G]There's no Peter Pedantic saying things romantic [C]in Latin, Greek or Spic
[G]There's no Three bananas or Brandy Alexander [C]dishing all their tricks
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{start_of_bridge}
[Am]It's a different feeling that I have [F]today
[Am]Especially when I know you've [F]gone [G]away
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{start_of_verse}
[G]There's a girl from Soho with a teeshirt saying "I Blow" [C]she's with the "jive five 2 plus 3"
[G]And the girls for pay dates are giving cut rates [C]or else doing it for free
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{start_of_bridge}
[Am]The past keeps knock, knock, knocking on my [F]door
[Am]And I don't want to hear it [F]any[C]more
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{start_of_verse}
[C]No consolations please for feelin' funky [F]I got to get my head above my knees
[C]But it makes me mad and mad makes me sad [F]and then I start to freeze
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{start_of_bridge}
[Dm]In the back of my mind I was afraid it might be [Bb]true
[Dm]In the back of my mind I was afraid that they [Bb]meant [C]you
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{start_of_outro}
[F]The Halloween Par[Bb]ade [C] [F]
[F]The Halloween Par[Bb]ade [C] [F]
[F]The Halloween Par[Bb]ade [C] [F]
See you next year, at the Halloween parade
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