This Year's Attraction

This song was started from cards drawn from both the red and green decks of the Apples to Apples boardgame. The words our threesome started from were:

• The State Fair
• Nicolas Cage
• Fidel Castro
• The Great Chicago Fire
• Boyfriends
• sappy
• glamorous
• normal

Title

This Year's Attraction

Author

Tom Payne, Steve Walski, Tres Seaver

Year

2011

C                                  F               C
I went down to the State Fair, to see who I could meet there,
   F                   C                        G             G7
I found a girl at the tilt-a-whirl, she really took me for a ride,
F                                 C                  Am
I thought we were happy, but she just thought I was sappy,
C               F             G                  C
She left me without regrets, holdin' my foolish pride.


Later on the Midway, I met a beauty from Santa Fe,
Never said her name, but set me aflame, like the Great Chicago Fire,
In the cold light of the mornin', she was gone without a warnin',
Leavin' me believin' in the folly of desire.


Chorus
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  F                                C
  I'll tell you what I know about this year's big attraction,
         G                              C
  There won't be any lasting love only momentary satisfaction.
  F                                   C              Am
  Ending in tears and shouts, maybe cleaning out my bank account,
  C                                      G             C
  Walking home from the fairgrounds, no wiser for the pain.


Then when I was walkin' down by the livestock barns and talkin'
with a breeder whose calves were near as pretty as her face.
I thought she was glamorous;  she thought I was amorous,
and left me there with just the print of her fingers on my face.


Down by the main stage, a girl told me I was Nicolas Cage,
Or maybe Fidel Castro, she wasn't certain either way.
I couldn't act the big star, or even smoke a big cigar,
So she found another fool for her fantasies to play.

(repeat chorus)