Lou Reed - Halloween parade

^DThere's a down town fairy singing out "Proud Mary" ^Aas she cruises Christopher S^Dtreet ^AAnd some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean where the docks and the Badlands m^Deet

^BmThis Halloween is something to be su^Gre ^BmEspecially to be here without y^Gou

^AThere's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcock and some black Jamaican ^Dstud ^AThere's five Cinderellas and some leather drags I almost fell into^D my mug ^BmThere's a Crawford, Davis and a tacky Cary G^Grant ^BmAnd some Homeboys lookin' for trouble d^Gown here from the Bro^Anx

^DBut there ain't no Hairy and no Virgin Mary you won't hear those voices a^Ggain ^DAnd Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita you'll never see those faces^G again ^EmThis Halloween is something to be ^Csure ^EmEspecially to be here without ^Cyou

^DThere's the Born Again Losers and the Lavender Boozers and some crack team from Washington^G Heights ^DThe boys from Avenue B and the girls from Avenue D a Tinkerbell in tig^Ghts ^EmThis celebration somehow get m^Ce down ^EmEspecially when I see you're n^Cot ar^Dound

^GThere's no Peter Pedantic saying things romantic in Latin, Greek or^C Spic ^GThere's no Three bananas or Brandy Alexander dishing all their tr^Cicks ^AmIt's a different feeling that I have ^Ftoday ^AmEspecially when I know you've gone a^Fway

^GThere's a girl from Soho with a teeshirt saying "I Blow" she's with the "jive five 2 p^Clus 3" ^GAnd the girls for pay dates are giving cut rates or else doing it for^C free ^AmThe past keeps knock, knock, knocking on my^F door ^AmAnd I don't want to hear it an^Fymore ^G

^CNo consolations please for feelin' funky I got to get my head above my k^Fnees ^CBut it makes me mad and mad makes me sad and then I start to fre^Feze ^DmIn the back of my mind I was afraid it might b^Bbe true ^DmIn the back of my mind I was afraid that they ^Bbmeant y^C#ou

^FThe Hall^Bboween Parad^Ce ^FAt the H^Bballoween pa^Crade ^FAt the H^Bballoween pa^Crade ^FSee you next ye^Bbar, at the Hallowee^Cn parade