Tulsa's Last Magician Chords

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[Verse 1]
[D]Wel[A]l[G][D]
Tulsa’s last magician
got his start at four
Pulled a quarter from his own ear
[A]and spun it on the floor
Since [Bm]there’s no good tricks but [A]old ones
[D]and lyin’ ain’t that har[G]d
[A]He saved [G]up all his quarters and
[D]bought a deck of cards

[Verse 2]
And he learned [D]ragtime piano,
though his teach[G]er thought him [D]slow
Got a black belt in karate
from a [A]pawn shop video
And he’d prac[Bm]tice all [A]his worst
mistakes in a dirty [D]bath[G]room mirror
And when his mother drank,
he learned [D]to disappear

[Verse 3]
And [D]his classmates thought him funny
and good [G]at sleight [D]of hand
But he [G]had this grand fi[D]nale that they
[A]refused to understand
[Bm]It’s hard to tell the [A]whole truth
of a [D]family sawed in [G]half
And [D]that’s why [G]Tulsa’s last magician
left [D]his home so fast
[A][G][D]

[Verse 4]
Well down and out in Reno,
broke in Santa Fe
Turnin’ tricks on Los Sueñeros out
[A]in the Californ- i- ay
[Bm]They pushed him up against [A]a
wall said buddy [D]get a [G]grip
So he learned to set himself on fire
on the Las Vegas [D]strip

[Verse 5]
Then he [D]wandered down to Tampa,
[G]blew [D]everybody’s mind
‘Cause the crowd was cheap and easy there,
on [A]beer and blow and wine
They said I [Bm]wonder where my [A]dollar went,
how’d the [D]flower bloom [G]so fast
He said I can’t reveal my secret,
though they rarely failed [D]to ask
And [G]the crowd all thought him

[Verse 6]
[D]funny,
and [G]good at sleight [D]of hand
But [G]he had this grand fi[D]nale
[A]they refused to understand
They de[Bm]manded explana[A]tion when the
card [D]pulled was [G]their own
And that’s why Tulsa’s last magician lost
his faith and headed home
[D][A][G]

[Verse 7]
[D]
Well he said he’d learn computers,
like his [G]second [D]foster dad
And free- range all the rabbits
that [A]were livin’ in his hat
His invest[Bm]ments all went swim[A]mingly,
he had the [D]boss on hidden string[G]s
His promotions were a certainty,
he could make the numbers [D]sing

[Verse 8]
[D]Now time and space is easy
for [G]magic to control
[D]Still it was forty years of
workin’ ‘fore he no[A]ticed he was old
And now his [Bm]great escaping [A]act is just
unty[D]ing both his [G]shoes
And most [A]days he’s in the [G]easy chair,
yellin’ at [D]the news

[Verse 9]
And [G]the weatherman is [D]funny [G]and
talkin’ with his [D]hands
[G]But black clouds [D]are comin’ in,
[A]and no one understands
[Bm]That [A]somebody’s true
religion’s always [D]someone else’s[G]joke
And that’s why Tulsa’s last magician
pretty much went up in smoke
[D]

[Verse 10]
So friend if you’re the kind that thinks no
one quite [G]gets quite [D]what you are
Like you’re cobbler or mechanic
in this [A]age of flying cars
If you [Bm]think that you see right [A]behind
what’s right [D]before [A]our eye[G]s
You might be [A]a small [D]town’s last
magi[G]cian in dis[D]guise
[G]And we need you to be funny,

[Verse 11]
[D]
please be [G]good at sleight [D]of hand
[G]‘Cause there’s a grand final[D]e
we [A]can’t hope to understand
And [Bm]there’s a 1 in [A]52 chance
it’s all [D]magic and [G]it’s true
So won’t you please help [D]us be
[G]lieve [Bm]in y[D]ou?

[Outro 1]
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