[ Предположительная тональность: C ] 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