D
There's a down town fairy singing out "Proud Mary"
A D
as she cruises Christopher Street
A
And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean
D
where the docks and the Badlands meet
Bm G
This Halloween is something to be sure
Bm G
Especially to be here without you
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
Bm G
There's a Crawford, Davis and a tacky Cary Grant
Bm G A
And some Homeboys lookin' for trouble down here from the Bronx
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
Em C
This Halloween is something to be sure
Em C
Especially to be here without you
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
Em C
This celebration somehow get me down
Em C D
Especially when I see you're not around
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
Am F
It's a different feeling that I have today
Am F
Especially when I know you've gone away
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
Am F
The past keeps knock, knock, knocking on my door
Am F G
And I don't want to hear it anymore
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
Dm Bb
In the back of my mind I was afraid it might be true
Dm Bb C#
In the back of my mind I was afraid that they meant you
F Bb C
The Halloween Parade
F Bb C
At the Halloween parade
F Bb C
At the Halloween parade
F Bb C
See you next year, at the Halloween parade
