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Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn |
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Just like an old coat that is tattered and torn |
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Left on this world to fret and to mourn |
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Betrayed by a maid in her teens |
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The girl that I loved she was handsome |
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I tried all I knew her to please |
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But I could not please her one quarter so well |
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As the man upon the trapeze |
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He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease |
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That daring young man on the flying trapeze |
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His movements were graceful, all girls he could please |
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And my love he purloined away |
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This young man by name was Signor Bona Slang |
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Tall, big and handsome, as well made as Chang |
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Where'er he appeared the hall loudly rang |
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With ovation from all people there |
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He'd smile from the bar on the people below |
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And one night he smiled on my love |
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She wink'd back at him and she shouted "Bravo" |
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As he hung by his nose up above |
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He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease |
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That daring young man on the flying trapeze |
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His movements were graceful, all girls he could please |
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And my love he purloined away |
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Her father and mother were both on my side |
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And very hard tried to make her my bride |
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Her father he sighed, and her mother she cried |
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To see her throw herself away |
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It was all no avail, she went there every night |
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And would throw him bouquets on the stage |
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Which caused him to meet her; how he ran me down |
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To tell you would take a whole page |
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He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease |
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That daring young man on the flying trapeze |
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His movements were graceful, all girls he could please |
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And my love he purloined away |
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One night I as usual went to her dear home |
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Found there her father and mother alone |
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I asked for my love, and soon they made known |
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To my horror that she'd run away |
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She'd packed up her box and eloped in the night |
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With him, with the greatest of ease |
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From two stories high he had lowered her down |
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To the ground on his flying trapeze |
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He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease |
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That daring young man on the flying trapeze |
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His movements were graceful, all girls he could please |
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And my love he purloined away |
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Some months after this I went to the hall |
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To my surprised to see on the wall |
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A bill in red letters, which did my heart gall |
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That she was appearing with him |
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He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights |
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To help him live at his ease |
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She made her assume a masculine name |
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And now she goes on the trapeze |
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Oh, she floats through the air with the greatest of ease |
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You'd think her a man on the flying trapeze |
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She does all the work while he takes his ease |
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And that's what's become of my love |
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He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease |
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That daring young man on the flying trapeze |
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His movements were graceful, all girls he could please |
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And my love he |
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Purloined away |