Circus Lyrics - Tom Waits

We put up our tent on a dark 

Green knoll, outside of town by 

The train tracks and a seagull dump 

Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel 

And her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin' 

We pounded our stakes in the ground 

All powder brown 

And the branches spread like scary 

Fingers reaching 

We were in a pasture outside Kankakee 

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And One Eyed Myra, the queen of 

The galley who trained the 

Ostrich and the camels 

She looked at me squinty with her 

One good eye in a Roy Orbison 

T-shirt as she bottle fed 

An orangutan named Tripod 

And then there was 

Yodeling Elaine the 

Queen of the air who wore a 

Dollar sign medallion and she 

Had a tiny bubble of spittle 

Around her nostril and a 

Little rusty tear, for she had 

Lassoed and lost another 

Tipsy sailor 

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And over in 

The burnt yellow tent 

By the frozen tractor, the 

Music was like electric sugar 

And Zuzu Bolin played 

'Stavin' Chain' and Mighty 

Tiny on the saw and he 

Threw his head back with a 

Mouth full of gold teeth 

And they played 'Lopsided heart' 

And 'Moon over Dog Street' 

And by the time they played "Moanin Low" 

I was soakin' wet and wild eyed 

And Doctor Bliss slipped me a 

Preparation and I fell asleep with 

'Livery Stable Blues' in my ear 

And me and Molley Hoey drank 

Pruno and Koolaid and she had a 

Tattoo gun made out of a cassette 

Motor and a guitar string and 

She soaked a hanky in 3 Roses 

And rubbed it on the spot 

And drew a rickety heart and 

A bent arrow and it hurt like hell 

And Funeral Wells spun 

Poodle Murphy on the target 

As he threw his hardware, 

Only once in Sheboygan did he miss 

At a matinee on Diamond Pier and 

She'd never let him forget it 

They were doing two shows and she 

Had a high fever and he took 

Off a piece of her ear and 

Tip Little told her she should 

Leave the bum 

But Poodle said, "He fetched me 

Last time I run." 

But I'd like to hammer this ring into a bullet 

And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun 

My dear 

And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun 

My dear