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The Man on the Flying Trapeze
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Burl Ives
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Once I was happy but now I'm forlorn
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Like an old coat that is tattered and torn
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Left in this wide world to weep and to mourn
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Betrayed by a maid in her teens
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Oh, this maid that I loved she was handsome
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And I tried all I knew, her to please
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But I never could please her one quarter so well
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As the man on the flying trapeze!
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He floats thro' the air with the greatest of ease
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The daring young man on the flying trapeze
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His actions are graceful, all girls he does please
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And my love he has stolen away
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He'd play with a miss like a cat with a mouse
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His eyes would undress ev'ry maid in the house
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Perhaps he is better described as a louse
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But still people came just the same
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He'd smile on the bar to the people below
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And one night he smiled on my love
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She blew him a kiss and she hollered "Bravo"!
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As he hung by his nose up above!
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He floats thro' the air with the greatest of ease
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The daring young man on the flying trapeze
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His actions are graceful, all girls he does please
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And my love he has stolen away
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I wept and I whimpered I simpered for weeks
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While she spent her time the with the circuses freaks
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The tears were like hailstones that rolled down my cheeks
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Alas and alack and Alaska
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I went to this fellow the blackguard and said
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I'll see that you get your deserts
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His thumb to his nose he put up with a sneer
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He sneered once again and said "Nortz" Oh!
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He floats thro' the air with the greatest of ease
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The daring young man on the flying trapeze
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His actions are graceful, all girls he does please
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And my love he has stolen away
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One night to his tent he invited her in
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Filled her with compliments and kisses and gin
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That started her off on the road to ruin
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She made the supreme sacrifice
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But even tho' I loved her I said "Take my name
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I'll gladly forgive and forget!"
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She rustled her bustle and then without shame she said
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"Maybe later , not yet"! Oh!
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He floats thro' the air with the greatest of ease
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The daring young man on the flying trapeze
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His actions are graceful, all girls he does please
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And my love he has stolen away
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One night I as usual went to her dear home
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Found there her father and mother alone
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I asked for my love and soon t'was made known
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To my horror that she'd run away
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Without any trousseau she fled in the night
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With him with the greatest of ease
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From two stories high he had lowered her down
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To the ground on his flying trapeze!
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He floats through the air with the greatest of ease
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The daring young man on the flying trapeze
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His actions are graceful, all girls he does please
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And my love he has stolen away
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Some months after that I went into the hall
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To my surprise I found there on the wall
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A bill in red letters which did my heart gall
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That she was appearing with him
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He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights
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To help him to live at his ease
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He'd made her assume a masculine name
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And now she goes on the trapeze!
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She floats through the air with the greatest of ease
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You'd think her a man on the flying trapeze
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Her actions are graceful, all girls she does please
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And that's what's become of my love
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