How We Remember It
Words And Music By Ricky Ross

G 320033
Cadd9 X32033
Em7 022030
D XX0212
Am X02210

 

Intro - G       Cadd9       G      Cadd9

G                Cadd9      G
Packing up the carnival again
G                  Cadd9          G
Leaving's not as exciting as arriving
Em7
There were nights
             D
when the music was so loud
Cadd9
Billie came down
           G                      Am
and we spun the waltzers round
Am
And round


G                      Cadd9                    G
Bobby Boyd took over on the wall of death
G                       Cadd9                              G
'Gravity does not apply,' he said "if you have friends.'
Em7                    D
But in the end the wheel stopped turning
Cadd9                     G
Lorries were loaded, engines turning
Am
Heading out
     Cadd9
To a different town

G                    D
This is how we remember it
Em7                       Cadd9
Sooner or later your time starts running out
G                  D
On a bus or a train in a photograph
Em7                   Cadd9
Say goodbye to the circus leaving town
                       G           Cadd9           G
Cause there's a long road out heading south


Instrumental break - G    Cadd9     G      Cadd9


G                    Cadd9       G
Candy floss and rides and cigarettes
G                       Cadd9       G
Summer nights we never will forget
Em7                          D
We were counting on one last turn
Cadd9
Taking the ghost train
G
Round and round again
Am
Again



G                    D
This is how we remember it
Em7                     Cadd9
Sooner or later your time starts running out
G                  D
On a bus or a train in a photograph
Em7                     Cadd9
Say goodbye to the circus leaving town
                      G             Cadd9          G
Cause there's a long road out heading south
                      G             Cadd9          G
Cause there's a long road out heading south



Instrumental break - G     Cadd9     G      Cadd9     G      Cadd9


Em7
The grass is bare
                      D
from when the fairground stood here
           Cadd9        G               Cadd9
There's a chill in the late October air
Cadd9
We're not there

G                    D
This is how we remember it
Em7                     Cadd9
Sooner or later your time starts running out
G                  D
On a bus or a train in a photograph
Em7                   Cadd9
Say goodbye to the circus leaving town
                      G           Cadd9            G
Cause there's a long road out heading south
                      G           Cadd9            G
Cause there's a long road out heading south


Outro - G     Cadd9     G     Cadd9     G     Cadd9