Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues


this is the circus of Dr. Lao
we show you things
that you don't know
we tell you of places
you'll never go
we've searched the world
both high and low
to capture the beasts
for this marvelous show
from mountains where maddened winds did blow
to islands where zephyrs breathed sweet and low
oh we've spared no pains
and we've spared no dough
and we've dug at the secrets
of long ago
and we've risen to heaven
and plunged below
for we wanted to make it
one hell of a show
and the things you'll see
in your brains will glow
long past the time
when the winter snow
has frozen the summer's furbelow
for this is the circus of Dr. Lao
and youth may come
and age may go
but no more circuses
like this show!
--Charles G. Finney
The Circus of Dr. Lao

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Annie Oakley, P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb