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Once I was happy but now I'm forlornLike an old coat that is tattered and tornLeft in this wide world to weep and to mourn Betrayed by a maid in her teensOh, this maid that I loved she was handsomeAnd I tried all I knew, her to please But I never could please her one quarter so well As the man on the flying trapeze! He floats thro' the air with the greatest of easeThe daring young man on the flying trapezeHis actions are graceful, all girls he does please And my love he has stolen away He'd play with a miss like a cat with a mouseHis eyes would undress ev'ry maid in the housePerhaps he is better described as a louseBut still people came just the sameHe'd smile on the bar to the people belowAnd one night he smiled on my loveShe blew him a kiss and she hollered "Bravo"! As he hung by his nose up above! He floats thro' the air with the greatest of easeThe daring young man on the flying trapezeHis actions are graceful, all girls he does please SongtexteAnd my love he has stolen away I wept and I whimpered I simpered for weeks While she spent her time the with the circuses freaksThe tears were like hailstones that rolled down my cheeksAlas and alack and AlaskaI went to this fellow the blackguard and said I'll see that you get your desertsHis thumb to his nose he put up with a sneer He sneered once again and said "Nortz" Oh! He floats thro' the air with the greatest of easeThe daring young man on the flying trapezeHis actions are graceful, all girls he does please And my love he has stolen away One night to his tent he invited her in Filled her with compliments and kisses and ginThat started her off on the road to ruin She made the supreme sacrificeBut even tho' I loved her I said "Take my name I'll gladly forgive and forget!"She rustled her bustle and then without shame she said"Maybe later , not yet"! Oh! He floats thro' the air with the greatest of easeThe daring young man on the flying trapezeHis actions are graceful, all girls he does please And my love he has stolen away One night I as usual went to her dear homeFound there her father and mother alone I asked for my love and soon t'was made knownTo my horror that she'd run awayWithout any trousseau she fled in the night With him with the greatest of easeFrom two stories high he had lowered her down To the ground on his flying trapeze! He floats through the air with the greatest of easeThe daring young man on the flying trapezeHis actions are graceful, all girls he does please And my love he has stolen away Some months after that I went into the hall To my surprise I found there on the wallA bill in red letters which did my heart gall That she was appearing with himHe'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights To help him to live at his easeHe'd made her assume a masculine name And now she goes on the trapeze! She floats through the air with the greatest of easeYou'd think her a man on the flying trapezeHer actions are graceful, all girls she does please And that's what's become of my love Aus Songtexte Mania