Julian The Onion Chords & Lyrics - Mewithoutyou

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[Am]Logger Days, savannah, the menage[Dm]rie packed its trains
Left [Am]Bitter Root, Mon[Em]tana for those [Am]old Nebraska plains
[Am]Ticket sales were suffering now, with [Dm]half the animals gone
But the [Am]circus kept its [Em]course somehow and the [Am]show continued on
[Am]Pitched their tents in Battle Creek on a [Dm]makeshift flatbed stage
With a [Am]draytop shotgun [Em]rhino's peak and a [Am]black wrought iron cage
The [Am]barker sprung to action as the [Dm]band began to play
To intro[Am]duce the new a[Em]ttraction who they'd [Am]picked up on the way

[Am]Julian, [Dm]Julian
[Am]Julian the [Em]Onion who they'd [Am]picked up on the way

[BARKER:] "[Am]Cleanse your minds and palates, as I [Dm]seldom mince my words
This poor [Am]boy's a walking [Em]shallot; yes, it's [Am]shocking as you've heard!
From his [Am]lonesome, yellow childhood, so fan[Dm]tastically deformed
He was [Am]battered by his [Em]classmates and sau[Am]teed like bantam corn
'Red Vi[Am]dalias!' 'Valley Sweets!' for [Dm]twelve long, rotten years
If he so [Am]much as skinned his [Em]knee, the entire [Am]schoolhouse moved to tears
We [Am]found him where he'd sprouted, plotting a [Dm]garden coup d'etat
In a [Am]carrot stick and [Em]celery stalk ma[Am]nage-a-mirepoix
Now, [Am]feast your caramel eyes on the most [Dm]savory sight in town!"
All his [Am]joking well-e[Em]voking peals of [Am]laughter from the crowd

But [Am]Julian, [Dm]Julian
[Am]Julian the [Em]Onion was not [Am]laughing with the crowd

His [Am]jaundiced face was trembling, beads of [Dm]sweat began to fall
Down his [Am]oblong gooseback [Em]forehead to his [Am]snuffed-out lantern jaw
His [Am]cut-shoot sprig of hair disheveled, [Dm]tiny fists impearled
[JULIAN:] "No I am [Am]not this misshaped [Em]body, and I'm [Am]not long for this world
[Am]Wooden dimes and quiet fears, come [Dm]curl your lips at me
But all per[Am]ceptions are as [Em]mirrors, it's your own re[Am]flections that you see
So [Am]hide behind your laughs a while, look [Dm]handsome though you may
Oh, do en[Am]joy that saccharine [Em]smile, as there [Am]comes for you a day"