Travelling Side Show
Step right up! Step right up! That’s right, come right here!
Do I have something to show you? It will make you jeer!
Inside this here old tent is a show to really tantalize,
but first pay me your dollar and step with open eyes.
There’s JoJo, the dog-faced boy, who’ll fight you for a bone.
Then there’s LingLing and LuLu, who can never stand alone.
There’s a man in here who can lift about twenty times his weight
and another who will make you stare, because he’s 9 foot 8.
There’s so much that you can see with your bewildered eye
Just pass the dollar this way first and give this show a try.
Let your mind be free enough to believe just what you see
and when you gaze in awe and wonder, you’ll come back to me.
You’ll ask me, how in hell did I find them, just the way they are.
I will answer with my pitch and a wink and say from near and far.
For they were gathered just for you from all around the sphere.
You can have the chance to see them, if you come back next year.
Copyright © Michael Degenhardt | Year Posted 2008
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