Trapeze Boy Lyrics - Steve Kilbey

I hadn't thought about Mrs. Morgan for years 

Until I read in the paper that she had died 

When I was a boy, Mrs. Morgan played solo 

With my mother every Tuesday afternoon 

There were two other women there 

But I can't remember their names anymore 

Monkey, Magda, something like that 

Mrs. Morgan collected opals 

Her husband Ted owned a circus 

Which kept him away and out of the picture most of the time 

I'd come home from school and the women would be hard at the cards 

I liked Mrs. Morgan, she always had a little chip of opal for me 

And said that I should save it for a sweetheart 

I came home one day and Mrs. Morgan was crying in our kitchen 

My mother told me to leave them alone 

I learned later that a boy from the circus had fallen and died