Lyrics

Wolf Boy, Tom Thumb, Missing Link /  Sad-Eyed Serpentina and Armless Girl Marie /  We’ve been right here, your oldest dream /  Strange and wondrous cousins that wait behind the screen /  Step right up, look and see, five hundred dollars guaranteed /  All true, this way from birth /  We’re the sideshow of the greatest show on earth /   Two rows, ten tents, make your choice /  The tank of Feejee Mermaid, the cage of Monkey Boy /  Half-price, six cents, children under twelve, /  Watch Two-Headed Girl sing with herself /  Step right up, can this be true, temples of the Holy Ghost just like you /  Laughter without mirth at the sideshow of the greatest show on earth /   We’ve been kicking sawdust since the Flood /  Nothing slows us down but jump-day mud /  We don’t complain, can’t be what we’re not /  Doing the best we can with what we got /   KooKoo, Bird Girl, sold by her ma /  Said sometimes the way they look at me makes my feathers crawl/  No dodge, no trick, no pigeon up the sleeve /  This is what we are, nothing changes when you leave /  So step right up, gape and stare, bust a gut, we don’t care /  Just drop two bits for our day’s work /  For the sideshow of the greatest show on earth