The Flying Wallendas Lyrics - Big To-do - Drive By Truckers

And they fell from the skies with the greatest of ease 

And they landed on the ground under tents and trapeze 

And they were told that they fell with such beauty and grace 

That the Flying Wallendas would be the name on their case 

And the fine folks of Akron would forever be saying 

That they flew through the air like the wings of a prayer 

But they all walked away amidst the gawking and stares 

And the children revisited their fall in nightmares 

But they never would stop and they never surrendered 

And they lived like they died, the Flying Wallendas 

They could dance on the wire through the fire and the storm 

John Ringling had seen Karl in Cuba perform 

He raised up his kids for performance and stardom 

They performed center ring at Madison Square Garden 

With a seven-man pyramid folks lined up just to see 'em 

Till they fell from the sky at Detroit's State Fair Coliseum 

And they fell to the ground with the greatest of ease 

Three didn't get up from the blood in the breeze 

But Karl wouldn't be stopped from his home in the skies 

Till he fell from the wire in San Juan and he died