A man once was happy,
but now he's forlorn
Like an old coat that is tattered and torn
Left in this wide world
to weep and to mourn
Betrayed by a maid in her teens
Oh, this maid that he loved,
she was handsome
And he tried all he knew how to please
But he never could please
her one quarter
So well as the man on the flying trapeze I
float through the air with the greatest
of ease
The daring young man
on the flying trapeze
My actions are graceful,
O girls, I do please,
And as love I paralyneth away.
I play with the mist like the
cat with the mouse,
My eyes would undress every maid in the house,
Perhaps I am better described as a louse,
but still people come just the same.
I smiled from the bar on the people below,
and one night I smiled on his love.
As she blew me a kiss, and she hollered,
Bravo!
As I hung by the bar from above.
I float through the air with the greatest of ease,
The daring young man on
the flying trapeze.
My actions are graceful,
all girls I do please,
An d his love I paraloined
F away
Some months after that he came into a hall
To a surprise he found there on the wall
A bill of red letters which did his heart gall
But she was appearing with me
I taught her gymnastics and dressed her in
tights to help me live at my ease.
I made her take on a masculine name,
and now she goes on the trapeze.
I float through the air with the
greatest of ease
The daring young man
on the flying trapeze
My actions are graceful, all girls I do please
And his love I purloineth away
An d his love I purloineth away
And his love keeps her loineth