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The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze

by Crispin Glover

on The Big Problem ? The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be. (1989)

[Verse 1]
A man was once happy, but now he's forlorn
Like an old coat that is tattered and torn
Left on this wide world to weep and to mourn
Betrayed by a maid in her teens

Well, this made that he loved she was handsome
And he tried all I knew her to please
But he never could not please her one quarter so well
As the man upon the flying trapeze

[Hook]
I'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
That daring young man on the flying trapeze
My actions are graceful, all girls I do please
And his love I purloined away

[Verse 2]
I'd play with a miss like a cat with a mouse
My eyes would undress every girl in the house
Perhaps I am better described as a louse
But the people they came just the same

I'd smile from the bar on the people below
And one night I smiled on his love
She blew me a kiss and she hollered, "Bravo!"
As I hung by the bar from above

[Hook]
I'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
That daring young man on the flying trapeze
My actions are graceful, all girls I do please
And his love I purloined away

[Verse 3]
Some months after that he cameinto a hall
And to my surprise, he found there on the wall
A bill in red letters which did his heart gall
That she was appearing with me

I taught her gymnastics, and dressed her in tights
To help me to live at my ease
I'd made her take on a masculine name
And now she goes on the trapeze

[Hook]
I'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease
That daring young man on the flying trapeze
My actions are graceful, all girls I do please
And his love I purloinedeth away
And his love I purloinedeth away
And his love keeps purloinedeth away