This thread's been retired for seven or eight years, but recent news stories have caused me to re-open it. Here's my favourite circus song that I've decided to start singing again after a few years off. Circus Song David Essig Fat boy plays the guitar in the back of his old trailer For the flipper man and the little flipper girl And he stares across the vacant lot as he sings Hank Williams' Lonesome Draws a curtain tied around his sideshow world And the flipper man says he smokes too much as he lights another Camel At the mention of his wife he shakes his head She could never take the circus life she couldn't stand the travel And he tries to get his little girl to bed. And Shorty Jones the wheelchair clown and assistant chief mechanic He's lying fast asleep in the lighting gear He lost his legs when his ship went down in the frozen North Atlantic And he put an end to a major league career. So get your tickets early grab the kids and come on down To the carnival, the circus is in town They'll be spills and thrills for children of all ages young and old. For the people in the carnival it's just another day on the road. Now the motorcycle thrill rider's got a steel plate in his head And a kid who flew a chopper in the war. Now his son's an unknown soldier in a picture by the bed As his Daddy drives the wall of death once more And the stripper she says she don't know where the circus life will take her. Ah the constant bump and grind drives her insane. She said she's gonna chuck it all someday and become an undertaker And buy a house in the sunny South of Spain. So get your tickets... Now old Bob the midway barker he slumps down at the table He said he's heard this song how life's a carnival And it makes him laugh that people think the circus life is special "It's just another job," he said, "that's all." So get your tickets...
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