The Man On The Flying Trapeze - Original-Don Redman

[ti:The Man On The Flying Trapeze] [ar:Don Redman] [al:Don Redman 1933-37] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Man On The Flying Trapeze - Original - Don Redman [00:43.61]Now once I was happy but now I'm forlorn [00:47.67]Like an old coat that is tattered and torn [00:50.93]Left in this wide world to fret and to mourn [00:54.33]Betrayed by a maid in her teens [00:56.98] [00:57.70]Now the man that I loved she was handsome [01:00.78] [01:01.35]And I tried all I knew her to please [01:04.86]Then but I never could not please her one quarter so well [01:08.82]As the man upon the trapeze [01:11.64]Oh [01:13.03] [01:26.48]I stay some months after that I went in to the hall [01:30.69]And to my surprised I find them on the wall [01:34.32]A bill in red letters which did my heart gall [01:37.77]That she was appearing with him [01:40.28] [01:41.04]He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights [01:43.97] [01:44.55]Just to help him live at his ease [01:46.75] [01:48.26]And he made her assume a masculine name [01:52.44]And now she goes on the trapeze [01:55.24]Oh ya ya ya ya [01:58.17]He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease [02:01.19]This daring young man on the flying trapeze [02:04.92]I mean the movements were graceful all the girls he could please [02:08.84]And my love he purloined away