[00:15.12]Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn
[00:19.54]Just like an old coat that is tattered and torn
[00:24.17]Left on this world to fret and to mourn
[00:28.32]Betrayed by a maid in her teens
[00:32.49]The girl that I loved she was handsome
[00:35.95]I tried all I knew her to please
[00:39.17]But I could not please her one quarter so well
[00:42.74]As the man upon the trapeze
[00:49.20]He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
[00:53.71]That daring young man on the flying trapeze
[00:57.41]His movements were graceful, all girls he could please
[01:01.24]And my love he purloined away
[01:10.72]This young man by name was Signor Bona Slang
[01:14.82]Tall, big and handsome, as well made as Chang
[01:18.14]Where'er he appeared the hall loudly rang
[01:21.60]With ovation from all people there
[01:25.36]He'd smile from the bar on the people below
[01:29.51]And one night he smiled on my love
[01:32.78]She wink'd back at him and she shouted "Bravo"
[01:36.60]As he hung by his nose up above
[01:43.70]He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
[01:48.18]That daring young man on the flying trapeze
[01:52.30]His movements were graceful, all girls he could please
[01:55.89]And my love he purloined away
[02:06.50]Her father and mother were both on my side
[02:10.09]And very hard tried to make her my bride
[02:13.96]Her father he sighed, and her mother she cried
[02:17.64]To see her throw herself away
[02:21.34]It was all no avail, she went there every night
[02:24.82]And would throw him bouquets on the stage
[02:28.30]Which caused him to meet her; how he ran me down
[02:32.91]To tell you would take a whole page
[02:40.02]He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
[02:44.29]That daring young man on the flying trapeze
[02:48.34]His movements were graceful, all girls he could please
[02:52.00]And my love he purloined away
[02:58.85]One night I as usual went to her dear home
[03:02.74]Found there her father and mother alone
[03:06.42]I asked for my love, and soon they made known
[03:10.41]To my horror that she'd run away
[03:14.20]She'd packed up her box and eloped in the night
[03:17.88]With him, with the greatest of ease
[03:21.42]From two stories high he had lowered her down
[03:25.38]To the ground on his flying trapeze
[03:31.45]He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
[03:35.34]That daring young man on the flying trapeze
[03:39.51]His movements were graceful, all girls he could please
[03:43.14]And my love he purloined away
[03:51.61]Some months after this I went to the hall
[03:55.69]To my surprised to see on the wall
[03:59.47]A bill in red letters, which did my heart gall
[04:03.10]That she was appearing with him
[04:06.66]He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights
[04:10.53]To help him live at his ease
[04:13.94]She made her assume a masculine name
[04:17.81]And now she goes on the trapeze
[04:25.90]Oh, she floats through the air with the greatest of ease
[04:29.77]You'd think her a man on the flying trapeze
[04:33.40]She does all the work while he takes his ease
[04:37.01]And that's what's become of my love
[04:40.64]He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
[04:44.30]That daring young man on the flying trapeze
[04:48.14]His movements were graceful, all girls he could please
[04:51.61]And my love he
[04:56.50]Purloined away