The Man On The Flying Trapeze

The Man On The Flying Trapeze - Don Redman

Now once I was happy but now I'm forlorn

Like an old coat that is tattered and torn

Left in this wide world to fret and to mourn

Betrayed by a maid in her teens

Now the man that I loved she was handsome

And I tried all I knew her to please

Then but I never could not please her one quarter so well

As the man upon the trapeze

Oh

I stay some months after that I went in to the hall

And to my surprised I find them on the wall

A bill in red letters which did my heart gall

That she was appearing with him

He'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights

Just to help him live at his ease

And he made her assume a masculine name

And now she goes on the trapeze

Oh ya ya ya ya

He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease

This daring young man on the flying trapeze

I mean the movements were graceful all the girls he could please

And my love he purloined away