[02:42.00]Once I was happy
[02:42.00]But now I'm forlorn
[02:42.00]Like an old coat that is tattered and torn
[02:42.00]Left on this world to fret and to mourn
[02:42.00]Betrayed by a maid in her teens
[02:42.00]The girl that I loved she was handsome
[02:42.00]I tried all I knew her to please
[02:42.00]But I could not please her one quarter so well
[02:42.00]As the man upon the trapeze
[02:42.00]Hed fly through the air with the greatest of ease
[02:42.00]That daring young man on the flying trapeze
[02:42.00]His movements were graceful
[02:42.00]All girls he could please
[02:42.00]And my love he purloined away
[02:42.00]This young man by name was signor bona slang
[02:42.00]Tall
[02:42.00]Big and handsome
[02:42.00]As well made as chang
[02:42.00]Whereer he appeared the hall loudly rang
[02:42.00]With ovation from all people there
[02:42.00]Hed smile from the bar on the people below
[02:42.00]And one night he smiled on my love
[02:42.00]She winkd back at him and she shouted"bravo"
[02:42.00]As he hung by his nose up above
[02:42.00]Her father and mother were both on my side
[02:42.00]And very hard tried to make her my bride
[02:42.00]Her father he sighed
[02:42.00]And her mother she cried
[02:42.00]To see her throw herself away
[02:42.00]Twas all no avail
[02:42.00]She went there every night
[02:42.00]And would throw him bouquets on the stage
[02:42.00]Which caused him to meet her
[02:42.00]How he ran me down
[02:42.00]To tell you would take a whole page
[02:42.00]One night I as usual went to her dear home
[02:42.00]Found there her father and mother alone
[02:42.00]I asked for my love
[02:42.00]And soon they made known
[02:42.00]To my horror that shed run away
[02:42.00]Shed packed up her box and eloped in the night
[02:42.00]With him
[02:42.00]With the greatest of ease
[02:42.00]From two stories high he had lowered her down
[02:42.00]To the ground on his flying trapeze
[02:42.00]Some months after this I went to the hall
[02:42.00]Was greatly surprised to see on the wall
[02:42.00]A bill in red letters
[02:42.00]Which did my heart gall
[02:42.00]That she was appearing with him
[02:42.00]Hed taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights
[02:42.00]To help him live at his ease
[02:42.00]And made her assume a masculine name
[02:42.00]And now she goes on the trapeze
[02:42.00]Shed fly through the air with the greatest of ease
[02:42.00]Youd think her the man young man on the flying trapeze
[02:42.00]Her movements were graceful
[02:42.00]All girls she could please
[02:42.00]And that was the end of my love