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)