Tulsas Last Magician chords by Willi Carlisle

[Intro]

D  A  G  D
 
[Verse]

      D                    
Well Tulsa’s last magician
 
 D
Got his start at four

          D           
Pulled a quarter from his 
             A
Own ear and spun it on the floor

              Bm                 
Since there’s no good tricks but 

 A            D                G
Old ones and lyin’ ain’t that hard

    G                           
He saved up all his quarters and 
    D
He bought a deck of cards
 
        D                     
And he learned ragtime piano, 
            D
Though his teacher thought him slow

       D                  
Got a black belt in karate 
        A
From a pawn shop video 
          Bm               A          
And he’d practice all his worst mistakes 
      D              G
In a dirty bathroom mirror  

                     Em   
And when his mother drank,
    D
He learned to disappear
 
 
[Chorus]

         D                         
And his classmates thought him funny 
     D
And good at sleight of hand 

    D                   
He had this grand finale 
        A
They refused to understand

      Bm               A         
It’s hard to tell the whole truth 

      D              G
Of a family sawed in half

                D          
And that’s why Tulsa’s last 
   G               D       D   A Bm G D
Magician left his home so fast
 
 
[Verse]

      D                  
Well down and out in Reno, 
 D
Broke in Santa Fe

         D                   
Turnin’ tricks on Los Sueñeros 
        A
Out in Californ-i-ay

           Bm              A       
Well they pushed him up against the 
           D           G
Wall said buddy get a grip

       G                            
So he learned to set himself on fire 
                  D
On the Las Vegas strip
 
        D                     
And he wandered down to Tampa, 
      G           D
Blew everybody’s minds

            D                            
‘Cause the crowd was 

Cheap and easy there, 
    A
On beer and blow and wine

        Bm              A         
Said I wonder where my dollar went, 
           D               G
How’d the flower bloom so fast
        G                     
Said I can’t reveal my secret,
                              D
Though they rarely failed to ask
 
 
[Chorus]

         G                     D    
And the crowd all thought him funny, 
     G                  D
And good at sleight of hand

        G                D   
But he had this grand finale 
        A
They refused to understand
        Bm          A             
They demanded explanation when the
   D                    G
 Card pulled was their own

                G                    
And that’s why Tulsa’s last magician 
                           D  A  G  D
Lost his faith and headed home
 
 
[Verse]

         D                       
Well he said he’d learn computers, 
          G             D
Like his second foster dad
     D                         
And free-range all the rabbits 
           A
That were livin’ in his hat

       Bm                 A         
His investments all went swimmingly, 
            D              G
He had the boss on hidden strings

        G                        
His promotions were a certainty, 
                           D
He could make the numbers sing
 
     D               
Now time and space is 
          G            D
Easy for magic to control 
              D                    
Still it was forty years of workin’ 
         A
‘Fore he noticed he was old 
         Bm             A    
Now his great escaping act is 
        D              G
Just untying both his shoes

          A              
And most days he’s in the 
                            D
Easy chair, yellin’ at the news
 
 
[Chorus]

         G             D   
And the weatherman is funny 
     G                D
And talkin’ with his hands

     G                D        
But black clouds are comin’ in, 
    A
And no one understands

          Bm            A      
That somebody’s true religion’s 
        D              G
Always someone else’s joke

                D              G    
And that’s why Tulsa’s last magician 
                        D   D  D
Pretty much went up in smoke 
 
 
[Verse]

              D                            
So friend if you’re the

 Kind that thinks no 

           G                   D
One quite gets quite what you are

               D                 
Like you’re a cobbler or mechanic
          A
 In this age of flying cars

        Bm                 A          
If you think that you see right behind 
        D                G
What’s right before our eyes

                D          
You might be a small town’s 
        Bm            D
Last magician in disguise
 
 
[Chorus]

        G              D     
Now we need you to be funny, 
           G                  D
Please be good at sleight of hand

        G                 D  
‘Cause there’s a grand finale 
          A
We can’t hope to understand

              Bm    A            
And there’s a 1 in 52 chance it’s
      D              G
 All magic and it’s true 

              G             
So won’t you please help us 
        Bm  D    A G A D A D
Believe in you?

ℹ️ About This Song

On the 30th of March 2022, the track was released. The track is written & sung by Willi Carlisle.

Track Info

• Song: Tulsas Last Magician
• Artist: Willi Carlisle
• Written by Willi Carlisle
• Produced by Joel Savoy
• Album: Peculiar Missouri
• Released Date: 30March 2022

Chords Info

• Tuning: Standard(E A D G B E)
• Key: D
• Chords: D, A, G, Bm, Em
• BPM: 98
• Suggested Strumming:
• D= Down Stroke, U = Upstroke, N.C= No Chord

Guitar Chords	Ukulele Chords
D – xx0232 A – x02220 G – 320003 Bm – x24432 Em – 022000	D – 2220 A – 2100 G – 0232 Bm – 4222 Em – 0402