Biography:
Guy Charles Clark (November 6, 1941 - May 17, 2016)[1] was a Grammy Award winning American Texas Country and folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer. He has released more than twenty albums, and his songs have been recorded by other artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, and Rodney Crowell. Guy Clark won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picture Of You.
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Other songs:
- Desperados Waiting For A Train
- A Little Of Both
- A Nickel For The Fiddler
- Anyhow I Love You
- Bag Of Bones
- Baton Rouge
- Black Diamond Strings
- Black Haired Boy
- Boats To Build
- Broken Hearted People
- Cold Dog Soup
- Dancin Days
- Dublin Blues
- El Coyote
- Forever For Always For Certain
- Fort Worth Blues
- Hanging Your Life On A Wall
- Hell Bent On A Heartache
- Heros
- Home Grown Tomatoes
- Homeless
- Howd You Get This Number
- I Dont Love You Much Do I
- Immigrant Eyes
- Indian Cowboy
- Instant Coffee Blues
- La Freeway
- Like A Coat From The Cold
- Lone Star Hotel
- Magdaline
- Magnolia Wind
- Maybe I Can Paint Over That
- Me Im Feelin The Same
- Mud
- My Favorite Picture Of You
- My Marie
- Off The Map
- Old Friends
- Out In The Parkin Lot
- Picassos Mandolin
- Red River
- Rita Ballou
- Shade Of All Greens
- She Aint Goin Nowhere
- Soldiers Joy 1864
- South Coast Of Texas
- Stuff That Works
- Texas 19
- Texas 1947
- That Old Time Feeling
- The Ballad Of Laverne And Captain Flint
- The Cape
- The Carpenter
- The Dark
- The Guitar
- The Houston Kid
- The Last Gunfighter Ballad
- Tornado Time In Texas
- Watermelon Dream
- Wild Man From Borneo
- Worry Be Gone
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Original by Kinky Friedman
Capo 2nd fret
[INTRO]
C G F C
Spoken: But he ain't no freak, and I'm shure, he ain't no geek.
[VERSE 1]
C F
He's the star of Captain Midnite's travelin' show
C F
He came to that circus many moons ago.
F C F
His mother's in your storybook, she loved a jungle king,
C G
Left him standin' there alone inside the center ring.
[VERSE 2]
C F
In a bamboo cage he crossed the ragin' sea,
C F
A livin' page torn clean from history.
F C F
A hairy, scary, legendary screamin' souvenir,
C G
Don't you get too close to him, don't you get too near.
[CHORUS]
F C
He's the wild man from Borneo,
E F
The wild man from Borneo.
C G
We come to see what we wanna see,
F C
Ah, we come to see but we never come to know.
[INSTRUMENTAL]
F C E F C G F C
[VERSE 3]
C F
The tattooed lady left the circus train
C F
Lost all her pictures in the rain.
F C F
He wonders if she's happy, as the midway lights grow dimmed
C G
He wonders if she'll ever know the mark she left on him.
[CHORUS]
F C
He's the wild man from Borneo,
E F
The wild man ...
C G
We come to see what we wanna see,
F C
Ah, we come to see but we never come to know.
C G
You come to see what you want to see,
F C
Ah, you come to see, but you never come to know.
G F C
Capo 2nd fret
[INTRO]
C G F C
Spoken: But he ain't no freak, and I'm shure, he ain't no geek.
[VERSE 1]
C F
He's the star of Captain Midnite's travelin' show
C F
He came to that circus many moons ago.
F C F
His mother's in your storybook, she loved a jungle king,
C G
Left him standin' there alone inside the center ring.
[VERSE 2]
C F
In a bamboo cage he crossed the ragin' sea,
C F
A livin' page torn clean from history.
F C F
A hairy, scary, legendary screamin' souvenir,
C G
Don't you get too close to him, don't you get too near.
[CHORUS]
F C
He's the wild man from Borneo,
E F
The wild man from Borneo.
C G
We come to see what we wanna see,
F C
Ah, we come to see but we never come to know.
[INSTRUMENTAL]
F C E F C G F C
[VERSE 3]
C F
The tattooed lady left the circus train
C F
Lost all her pictures in the rain.
F C F
He wonders if she's happy, as the midway lights grow dimmed
C G
He wonders if she'll ever know the mark she left on him.
[CHORUS]
F C
He's the wild man from Borneo,
E F
The wild man ...
C G
We come to see what we wanna see,
F C
Ah, we come to see but we never come to know.
C G
You come to see what you want to see,
F C
Ah, you come to see, but you never come to know.
G F C
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Gyllene Tider
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Haim
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