Once I was happy,
\nBut now I’m forlorn,
\nLike an old coat
\nThat is tattered and torn;
\nLeft in this wide world
\nTo weep and to mourn,
\nBetrayed by a maid in her teens.<\/p>\n
Now this girl that I loved,
\nShe was handsome,
\nAnd I tried all I knew
\nHer to please,
\nBut I never could please her
\nOne quarter so well
\nAs the man on the flying trapeze.<\/p>\n
Oh, he floats through the air
\nWith the greatest of ease,
\nThis daring young man
\nOn the flying trapeze;
\nHis actions are graceful,
\nAll girls he does please,
\nMy love he has purloined away.<\/p>\n
He’d play with a miss
\nLike a cat with a mouse,
\nHis eyes would undress
\nEvery girl in the house.
\nPerhaps he is better
\nDescribed as a louse,
\nBut the people they came just the same.<\/p>\n
Oh, he’d smile from his perch
\nOn the people below
\nAnd one day he
\nSmiled on my love.
\nShe blew him a kiss
\nAnd she hollered, “Bravo!”
\nAs he hung by his nose up above.<\/p>\n
Oh, he floats through the air
\nWith the greatest of ease,
\nThis daring young man
\nOn the flying trapeze;
\nHis actions are graceful,
\nAll girls he does please,
\nMy love he has purloined away.<\/p>\n
Oh, I wept and I whimpered,
\nI simpered for weeks,
\nWhile she spent her time
\nWith the circus’s freaks.
\nThe tears were like hailstones
\nThat rolled down my cheeks,
\nAlas, and alack, and alacka!<\/p>\n
I went to this fellow,
\nThe blackguard, and said,
\n“I’ll see that you getYour desserts!”
\nHe put up his thumb to his nose
\nWith a sneer,
\nHe sneered once again, and said,
\n“Nertz!”<\/p>\n
Oh, he floats through the air
\nWith the greatest of ease,
\nThis daring young man
\nOn the flying trapeze;
\nHis actions are graceful,
\nAll girls he does please,
\nMy love he has purloined away.<\/p>\n
One night to his tent
\nHe invited her in,
\nHe filled her with compliments,
\nKisses, and gin
\nAnd started her out
\nOn the road to ruin,
\nSince then l have known no repose.<\/p>\n
But e’en now l loved her, I said,
\n“Take my name!
\nI’ll gladly forgive
\nAnd forget;”
\n“She rustled her bustle”
\nWithout any shame,
\nSaying, “Well, maybe later, not yet.”<\/p>\n
Oh, he floats through the air
\nWith the greatest of ease,
\nThis daring young man
\nOn the flying trapeze;
\nHis actions are graceful,
\nAll girls he does please,
\nMy love he has purloined away.<\/p>\n
One night as usual
\nI went to her home,
\nAnd found there
\nHer father and mother alone,
\nI asked for my love,
\nAnd it soon was made known,
\nTo my horror, that she’d run away.<\/p>\n
Without any trousseau,
\nShe’d fled in the night
\nWith him with the
\nGreatest of ease,
\nFrom two stories high
\nHe’d lowered her down
\nTo the ground on his flying trapeze.<\/p>\n
Oh, he floats through the air
\nWith the greatest of ease,
\nThis daring young man
\nOn the flying trapeze;
\nHis actions are graceful,
\nAll girls he does please,
\nMy love he has purloined away.<\/p>\n
Some months after that
\nI went into a hall,
\nAnd to my surprise
\nI found there on the wall,
\nA bill in red letters
\nWhich did my heart gall,
\nThat she was appearing with him.<\/p>\n
Oh, he’d taught her gymnastics,
\nAnd dressed her in tights,
\nTo help him to live
\nAt his ease,
\nHe’d made her take on
\nA masculine name,
\nAnd now she goes on the trapeze.<\/p>\n
Oh, she floats through the air
\nWith the greatest of ease,
\nYou’d think her a man
\nOn the flying trapeze,
\nShe does all the work
\nWhile he takes his ease,
\nAnd that’s what’s become of my love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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