The Man On The Flying Trapeze piano leadsheet with chords

Oh, once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn,

like an old coat that is tattered and torn.

Wher Left in this wide world to fret and to mourn,

beotrayed by a maid in her teens.

Oh, the girl that I loved,

she was handsome be

and I tried all I knew her to please,

but I could not please her one quarter so well as the man on the flying trapeze.

Oh! He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,

a daring young man on the flying trapeze.

His movements were graceful, all girls he could please,

and my love he purloined away.

Now, the young man by name was Señor Boni Slang,

tall, big and handsome, as wellmade as Chang.

Wher e'er he appeared how the hall loudly rang with o vations from all people there.

He'd the smile from the bar on the people be

and I one night he smiled on my love.

She winked back at him and she shouted,

"Bravo!" as he hung by his nose from above.

Oh! She floats through the air with the greatest of ease;

you'd think her a man on the flying trapeze.

She does all the work ful,

while he takes his ease, and that's what's became of my love.

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