| What is a circus? |
| What does it mean?
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| Is it a banjo? |
| Or a tambourine?
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| Is it a phony snake charmer routine?
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| No, my friends. |
| I think you only stall, my friends
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| You’re thinking much too small, my friends
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| Or else you’re not thinking at all, my friends
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| When people think of «circus», the wherefore and the why’s of it
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| They think of all the adjectives, proclaiming what’s the size of it!
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| For instance: Tremendous, stupendous, terrific, prolific, gigantic, romantic,
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| sensational!
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| Razzling and dazzling, prodigious, insidious, ferocious, explosious,
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| inspirational!
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| An ordinary tightwire or flying act
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| Becomes the greatest death-defying act!
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| You can bet
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| They will sweat
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| When you do your pirouette
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| Without a net!
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| Super, super, duper, duper
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| Hoop the hoop and loop the looper
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| Something cataclysmic for the kiddies
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| The most amazing melody of merriment and mirth
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| The circus is the greatest show on Earth
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| Sawdust and spangles and dreams
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| Popcorn and crackerjack play a part
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| Everything glitters and gleams
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| Under the big top that’s in your heart
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| What if it’s tarnished and a bit second hand
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| To all the people it’s a magic land
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| Over the rainbow, it seems
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| Is sawdust … and spangles … and dreams!
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| We’re gonna march around the Hippodrome track
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| And let the people see that Jumbo’s back
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| Everything glitters and gleams
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| With sawdust and spangles and dreams!
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| Sawdust and spangles and dreams
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| Sawdust and spangles and dreams
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| Everything glitters and gleams
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| Sawdust … spangles
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| Sawdust and spangles and dreams
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| Popcorn and crackerjack play a part
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| It can’t be love because I feel so well
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| No sobs, no sorrows, no sighs
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| This can’t be love, I get no dizzy spells
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| Some people come for the animals
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| Some for the smells and the sounds
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| But you must agree, everybody comes to see
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| Those lovable, laughable clowns!
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| The makeup, the wigs, and the baggy pants
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| The jokes and the gags and the gaffe
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| Though your heart is breaking, start your merrymaking
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| And laugh, clown, laugh!
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| Tell all the people, shout it up and down
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| The wonderful Wonder circus is back in town!
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| Over the rainbow, it seems
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| Is stardust and spangles and dreams |
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Sawdust, Spangles and Dreams, artist - Doris Day. Album song The Complete Albums Collection 1957-62, in the genre