Carnival Girl - Billy Bob Thornton

I saw her in between fast moving scrambler cars

she had a stare like a twenty dollar whore

now i have done my time but i would say thus far

i’ve never seen a stare like that before

i ambled over close enough to ask her name

she said not that it’s your business but it’s dora

her bottom lip and both ears were linked by chains

she even had a tattoo on her aura

i told her that i’d like to know about her world

and she said i ain’t no carnival girl

she said just because i work the fair

and the wind of freedom blows through my hair

don’t mean i swing like a tilt-a-wurl

i may not be strung out in pearls

but i ain’t no carnival girl

i ain’t no carnival girl

she said that she would meet me in the parking lot

but right now she had to tug on that old handle

i bought a cotton candy and picked out a spot

and watched until the scrambler was dismantled

we talked until the sun came up and dried the dew

but talk was all we did since she insisted

she told me that their had only been a few

exceptions to the rule since she enlisted

she said she’d gladly tell me all about her world

but she ain’t no carnival girl

she said just because i work the fair

and the wind of freedom blows through my hair

don’t mean i swing like a tilt-a-wurl

i may not be strung out in pearls

but i ain’t no carnival girl

i ain’t no carnival girl