The County Fair

The midway Barker sings his song Enticing fairgoers to part with their cash Calliope music from the Merry-Go-Round Attracts children in a hurried dash Where once grew grass now is mud Trampled beneath the frenzied mob Sitting in rows of picnic tables Are neighbors enjoying their corn on the cob Johnny throws baseballs at stacked milk bottles Billy shoots at the metal shaped ducks Sally is sticky from her cotton candy Tommy wants to see the monster trucks Becky displays her quilted blanket Ann walks through the House of Mirrors Tommy and Nancy ride the Ferris Wheel Scooting a little bit nearer And all alone, outside the stockyard barn Rebecca sits with a tear in her eye Holding the blue first-place ribbon For the calf to whom she just said good-bye Being voted the Best-In-Show Is an honor no one else can share But then having to let her Betsy go Makes the County Fair seem not so fair