Trick Out The Truth

Am E Am It's a sin to tell a lie until we trick out the truth C G C That depends on what you do and don't believe G Am E What you have hidden up your sleeve Am E Am Younger than your shadow and as sweet as your tooth C G C What have you forbidden from my view? G C What have you kept from me? G C What have I held from you? F Fm C What will they say when they haul you away? F Fm C E Will anyone miss you, or kiss you, to say Am "Goodbye" (Goodbye) E Am With a tear or a coin for your eye F G# C When they finally trick out the truth Am E Am There are witches in the air, jack o' lanterns on the stairs C G C E And a wig to turn your hair electric blue Am E Am Ghouls are sighted, children frighted, superheroes and villains C G C G C Wondrous women by the millions who fade to the parade G C And join the masquerade F Fm C Right outside your door, a werewolf and his claw F Fm C E Painted faces with a penny chew and Kensington gore Am E Am Mussolini and his mistress in defeat E Am E Am And a witness with a cutlass arrange a winding sheet E Am E7 Am E Am Singing "Leaning on a Lamppost on the Corner of the Street" F G The Marxists cheer a working girl C Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Karl F Am G She's tattooed from her head to toe C She's inky like a girl I know F G A contagion of invidia C Just like the famous Lydia Am E Am E Just like Helen, late of Troy Am E Am E The Myna Bird, the Myrna Loy Am E Bud and Lou were wrestling in the parlour Am E Playing cards with Gustav Mahler C E We were calling every hand and every hold Am E Am E To a silent movie pianist accompanying the action C G C E From our description and distraction Am E Am E Playing vamps and trills and rambles, sound effects and rags and rumbles C Without even breaking stride G C Just as the bloody vampire nips his bride F Fm C We were so scared that we knelt down to pray F Fm C E With a bishop by Bacon who caused some dismay Am E Am E Who summons up tormented souls Am E Am E Doused with feathers and molasses Am E Am E Am E Am And the ashes of unholy crosses Am E Am E Somebody has to die before we trick out the truth C G C E I'll be coming back and I will turn the screw Am E Am E Longer than the shadow of some pulp fiction sleuth C G C Standing in a costume of your choice G C G C Lady Godiva on a horse and Godzilla, of course F Fm C For should we part at the end of the day F Fm C E When angels attend you to whisk you away Am E Am E Am E We are falling down deep like children into sleep Am E Am E And the candy has been counted Am Bm Am E And the bonfire will be haunted C G C G By orphans who are heard but never seen G C G Each and every Halloween F Fm C What will they say when they haul you away? F Fm C E Will anyone miss you, or kiss you, to say Am "Goodbye" (Goodbye) E Am With a tear or a coin for your eye F G# C When they finally trick out the truth F G# C When they finally trick out the truth