Halloween by Lou Reed
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    



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                                            A#
In the back of my mind I was afraid it might be true
Dm                                            A#     C#
In the back of my mind I was afraid that they meant you
F       A#         C
The Halloween Parade
F       A#         C
At the Halloween parade
F       A#         C
At the Halloween parade
F              A#                 C
See you next year, at the Halloween parade