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This is a different version from the original that I released in 2009. That's Tommy Allen from Drug Rug on drums. He came back in the ol' Inman Square region of Cambridge where I used to reside to play some drums and spruce up some of these ol' tune. Enjoy!

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SARA: Halfway from you to Toledo I told you on the phone.
"I took to the road with the old circus show, I'm sorry to leave you alone."

JACK and SARA: I was tired of drinking on Sundays, and I was tired of factory jobs

SARA: So when the circus rolled out with its whistles and shouts
I knew it was where I belonged.

BELLOWS: Now you’re headed for Detroit, Chicago, DeKalb, Denver and Colorado Springs

SARA: With circus tents and elephants and a tiger that jumps through a ring.

JACK and SARA: Give my dog to the kid next-door,
give my Bible back to the priest,

(Enter DAPHNE.)

DAPHNE: Amen!

JACK and SARA: But the only thing babe, that I leave to you is
knowing that love isn't cheap.

ALL: I won't be back, 'til another lonely time
so don't wait for me, 'cause nothing and no one is mine.

SARA: My only friend is a magician with aces under his clothes
And a magic hat that the acrobats

JACK and SARA: Still think is made out of gold.

JUMPING JACK: And me I'm a knife-throwing juggler, performing right after the clowns,
and I walk a tight rope and in the middle I hope that

SARA and JACK: I'm not gonna fall to the ground.

ALL: And the audience always roars, when they see that we've all lost our sight.

DAPHNE: They clap and they laugh at all we can’t take back,

SARA and DAPHNE: When we’re naked and under the lights.

JUMPING JACK: The ringmaster, he's alright. He smiles and he pays us well,

DAPHNE: but he smokes a cigar in the engine car like he knows that we're headed to hell.

(The whole cast cheers, BELLOWS bellows.)

ALL: I won't be back, 'til another lonely time
so don't wait for me, 'cause nothing and no one is mine.
(a cappella) I won’t be back, ‘til another lonely time
so don’t wait for me, ‘cause nothing and no one is mine.

credits

from The Disappearing Man (early demos), released February 21, 2009
Tommy Allen, drums.
Jahn Sood, acoustic & eletric guitars, bass, vocals.

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Jahn Sood is a songwriter, impresario and colored-pencil wielder who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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