Subject: Lyr Add: BALLAD OF AMAZING GRACE AND SIDESHOW DAN
From:
Jim Dixon
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 05:13 PM
Here's my transcription from the performance by M. Scott Horn on YouTube (see Kat's link above).
(A few phrases are uncertain; they are marked with (?).):
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THE BALLAD OF AMAZING GRACE AND SIDESHOW DAN
Jason Wilbur
1. Amazing Grace was a carnival queen.
She never was rich or famous.
She traveled the land with Sideshow Dan
and his true-life freaks of nature.
They say that Grace had a giant brain.
Her IQ was a hundred an' sixty.
And that girl tattooed ev'ry inch of her skin.
Man, she sure was a beauty.
She could lift a man with either hand
and twirl one in her teeth.
She could bend her back like an acrobat.
She could juggle with her bare feet.
Amazing Grace sure was sweet.
2a. Sideshow Dan was a hog of a man,
crooked as a fun-house stairs.
Ever'body'd smile when he whispered lies
about his secret love affairs.
You can bet that Dan was a happy man
when Grace was walkin' by his side.
She had a face like an angel and a body like a buildin'.
She laughed like a funhouse ride.
And Dan always promised to take his Grace
to sunbathe in Tahiti
Where she could lay naked as a jay and display
Technicolor part of her(?) graffiti.
Amazing Grace sure was sweet.
2b. And Flyin' Paul the Cannonball
and the Snake-Man Johnny hissed,
And Peg-Leg Roy the buck-dance boy,
Mysterio the Mentalist,
And Leon the Giant and Lily the Small
said that awful(?) Grace could 'a' been
The very first tattooed lady astronaut
for the U.S. president.
3a. Now Western Willie was really from Philly,
and he couldn't even ride a horse.
But he looked the part. He could stop a girl's heart.
He had the fastest trigger in the world.
Late one night between the lion's cage
and Marco's House of Mirrors
Willie and Grace made a plan to shake
the sawdust off of their ears.
Grace was unhappy to live in a tent
and travel from city to city,
So she loaded up that midnight Greyhound bus
and rode away with Willie.
Amazing Grace sure was gone.
3b. And Flyin' Paul the Cannonball
and the Snake-Man Johnny hissed,
And Peg-Leg Roy the buck-dance boy,
Mysterio the Mentalist,
And Leon the Giant and Lily the Small
said they hadn't seen a thing,
And Gypsy Jill said she'd like to help
but her ball was on the blink.
4a. Sideshow Dan still makes the rounds
with his true live freaks of nature.
Ev'ry time he asks around:
"Have you seen that tattooed lady?"
He sits at night all alone in his trailer
behind the midway,
Drinkin' whiskey and soda, starin' at his faded
Tahitian travel poster.
And the moral of the message is that lessons are learned.
Sideshow Dan did blunder.
Don't take a girl for granted 'cause you might be standin'
in the presence of a natural wonder.
Amazing Grace sure was sweet.
REPEAT VERSE 2b.
REPEAT VERSE 1.
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