Wild Billy's Circus Story-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:Wild Billy's Circus Story] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:The Wild, the Innocent, And Th] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Wild Billy's Circus Story - Bruce Springsteen [00:23.70]The machinist climbs his Ferris wheel like a braid [00:31.99]And the fire-eater's lyin' in a pool of sweat victim of the heat wave [00:40.72]Behind the tent the hired hand tightens his legs on the sword swallower's blade [00:50.90] [00:51.71]Circus town's on the shortwave [00:56.26] [01:04.62]Well the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn [01:12.18]Fat lady big mama Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns [01:21.54]And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin' popcorn [01:29.52] [01:30.34]And the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn [01:41.38]Circus town's been born [01:46.37]And a press roll drummer go ballerina to-and-fro cartwheelin' up on that tightrope [01:58.04]With a cannon blast lightnin' flash movin' fast through the tent Mars-bent [02:03.60]He's gonna miss his fall oh God save the human cannonball [02:11.33] [02:12.02]And the flyin' Zambinis watch Margarita do her neck twist [02:19.44] [02:20.50]And the ringmaster gets the crowd to count along: 95 96 97 [02:31.61]A ragged suitcase in his hand he steals silently away from the circus grounds [02:39.22]And the highway's haunted by the carnival sounds [02:44.41]They dance like a great greasepaint ghost on the wind [02:51.89] [02:52.57]A man in baggy pants a lonely face a crazy grin [03:03.18]Runnin' home to some small Ohio town [03:09.74]Jesus send some good women to save all your clowns [03:19.09]And Circus Boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire [03:27.03]And the barker romances with a junkie she's got a flat tire [03:34.57]And now the elephants dance real funky and the band plays like a jungle fire [03:45.87]Circus town's on the live wire [03:50.48] [03:51.67]And the strong man Samson lifts the midget little Tiny Tim up on his shoulders way up [03:59.29]And carries him on down the midway past the kids past the sailors to his dimly lit trailer [04:11.60]And the Ferris wheel turns and turns like it ain't ever gonna stop [04:20.51]And the circus boss leans over and whispers into the little boy's ear [04:26.44]"Hey son you want to try the big top [04:32.94]All aboard Nebraska's our next stop"