Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel

Townes Van Zandt / Townes Van Zandt: Townes Van Zandt (1969)

	intro:	C	Em	F	Em	Dm	G	F

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	Well, the	drunken clown still	hanging 'round, But it's	plain the	laughters	all died down;

	G	F	C
The	tears you tried so	hard to hide are	flowing.

	C	Em	F	Em	Dm
	And a blind man with his	knife in hand Has con	vinced him	self that he	understands -

	G	F	C
I	wish him well, Miss Carousel, but	I gotta be a	going.

	C	Em	F	Em	Dm
Well the	lady's been told that	all her gold Is	worth so	much, she	can't be sold;

	G	F	C
No	time to weep, she'll	later sleep to	morrow.

	C	Em	F	Em	Dm
	When she carries her face to the	market place And	bets it	on the	open enrage -

	G	F	C
She can	ring her bells, Miss Carousel, but the	singing brings me	sorrow.

	C	Em	F	Em	Dm
Well it's	always done, every	mothers sun Is	surely	grown, and	never run;

	G	F	C
	So they fight with	all their might	inside them.

	C	Em	F	Em	Dm
	When the battles been fought 'n	they've all been taught That the	trick is	just not	being caught;

	G	F	C
	Will you give 'em hell, Miss Carousel, When they're	begging you to	hide them.

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All the	castle walls	grown so tall,	Seems there	ain't no	hope at all -

	G	F	C
To	reach the top even	though you stopped your	breathin'.

	C	Em	F	Em	Dm
	But I ain't gonna try to	make you cry, The	teardrops	couldn't	find your eye,

	G	F	C
It's	all been swell, Miss Carousel, the	time has come for	leaving!