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-transcribed by Greg Steele - 
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"The Kid" written by Buddy Mondlock
Performed by Cry, Cry, Cry: Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky 


D       A       Bm                G      
I'm the kid who ran away with the circus

D       A        G   A  
Now I'm watering elephants

D     A         Bm               G
But I sometimes lie awake in the sawdust

D        A        G       A
Dreaming I'm in a suit of light
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Bm                   Gmaj7             Bm               Gmaj7    
Late at night in the empty bigtop, I'm all alone on the highwire

Bm                 E7                       A                    A7    
Look, he's working without a net this time, he's a real death-defyer


I'm the kid who always looked out the window
Failing tests in geography
But I've seen things far beyond the schoolyard
Distant shores of exotic lands
There're the spires of the Turkish Empire, six months since we made landfall
Riding low with the spices of India through Gibralter, we're rich men -
Em   C   D   A,   Em   C   G   A   
All...

I'm the kid who thought someday we'd be lovers
Always held out that time would tell
Time was talking, guess I just wasn't listening
No surprise, if you know me well
And as we're walking toward the train station, there's a whispering rainfall
'Cross the boulevard you slip your hand in mine, in the distance the train calls

I'm the kid who has this habit of dreaming
Sometimes gets me in trouble, too
But the truth is, I could no more stop dreaming

D      A               G        D
Than I could make them all come true