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Welcome to the Carnival,
Come and shake my hand
We’ve signed a pact you can’t redact
To see a place so grand.
Food is in abundance, the fun is off the walls
There’s golden gleam proceeding from the cracks of every hall
So look inside and peep the shows
Until you’ve got to go
There’s bits and bobs and everything
From all across the land
Welcome to the circus ain’t it grand.
We go out and we find it and we drag it all back home
We prop it up and throw it out, like all we’ve ever known
We find freaks and geeks and all the meeks cursed from before their birth,
And wring ‘em out and show em off until they’ve lost their worth
There’s many from arabia,
Whose homes we’ve turned to sand
Welcome to the circus ain’t it grand.
Put a dime into the minstral, she’ll play a song of sultry lust
Pick your card and play it out until your bank goes bust
Pick your cause and play it loud ‘til everything is gone
Pick your song and sing it, worry not it won’t be long
Wander where you wonder, every path is free,
Except for those not meant for you, those paths for him and me.
Do all that you love girl, keep on dreaming son
Just you keep on singing, say that you’re the one.
We offer types of merriment
That you can’t even stand.
Welcome to the circus ain’t it grand.