The Man On The Flying Trapeze Chords
by Donald Peers
The Man On The Flying Trapeze by Donald Peers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D7, G, E7, C, Em, B7 and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D7 G E7 C
Oh, once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn,
D7 G D7
Like an old coat that is tatter'd and torn.
G E7 C
I'm left in this wide world to fret and to mourn,
D7 G
Betrayed by a maid in her teens.
Em B7 Em
Now this girl that I loved, she was handsome and swell,
Em B7 Em
And I tried all I knew her to please;
Em B7 Em A7
But I never could please her one quarter so well,
A7 D7
As that man on the flying trapeze.
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