Join The Circus - Cy Coleman

When the pill the doctor gave you turns your cold to the grippe

When a stitch to save nine others comes apart with a rip

When the rats invade your attic and start leaving your ship

Follow my tip, come away on a trip

Just join the circus like you wanted to, when you were a kid

Climb aboard before it moves on and you’ll thank your lucky stars you did

Go to bed in Minneapolis, wake up in PA

Pack your roll, your brush and your comb again

Ready to roam again, ready to stray

Bless your soul;

you’ll never go home again

When the circus comes your way

When you’ve patches in your trousers and hole in your purse

When your nine to five it boring and your five to nine’s worse

When you sneeze instead of bless you, you get jeers and a curse

Don’t call a hearse, while you still got a cherce

Just join the circus like you meant to do, when you were so high

Pitch your troubles under a tent and you’re bound to lose ‘em by and by

Say so long to fair Schenectady greet sweet Santa Fe

Toss your hat and cane in a sack again

Shoulder your pack and then hitch up the shay

Kiss the cat and never look back again

When the circus comes your way

When the lady you’ve been courtin' weds your brother instead

When His Honour gives you thirty days on water and bread

When your bank accounts a million, but its all in the red

Don’t loose your head, pin this note to the bed

I’ve joined the circus like I wanted to, when I was a kid

Climbed aboard before it moved on and you bet your life I’m glad I did

Went to bed in Minneapolis, woke up in PA

Packed my roll, my brush and my comb again

Ready to roam again, ready to stray

Bless my soul;

I’ll never go home again

When the circus comes my…

See that tent pole slowly start to rise

Circus — circus

Just to say the word electrifies

Circus — circus

Watch that tiger shaking hands like a pup there

That lady dancin' on a wire a million miles up there

That string of painted cars down Railroad Avenue

Circus — circus

Two pink paste boards say you’re going to

Circus — circus

Share the glad times and the woe with us

Pack you’re trunk and join the show with us

Roll from Maine to Kokomo with us

Mister Barnum say you’ll go with us

(spoken)

Alright dammit, why don’t we just leave it to the fates?

Heads it’s yes,

Tails it’s no.

Mr. Bailey you got yourself a partner!

(spoken)

We’ll be the biggest show in the country!

(spoken)

To the Greatest Show on Earth!

When the circus comes your way!

I’ve joined the circus like I wanted to, when I was a kid

Climbed aboard before it moved on and you bet your life I’m glad I did

Went to bed in Minneapolis, woke up in PA

Packed my roll, my brush and my comb again

Ready to roam again, show me the way

Bless my soul;

I’ll never go home again

From the day I joined the circus!

Be proud to say you joined the circus!

Step right this way and join the circus!

Just stick a banner in your hand — and

Join the circus like you wanted to

Like you always wanted to run — a — way!