The Flying Wallendas

And they fell from the skies with the greatest of ease
 And they landed on the ground under tents and trapeze
 And they were told that they fell with such beauty and grace
 That The Flying Wallendas would be the name on their case
 And the fine folks of Akron would forever be saying
 That they flew through the air like the wings of a prayer
 But they all walked away amidst the gawking and stares
 And the children revisited their fall in nightmares
 But they never would stop and they never surrendered
 And they lived like they died, The Flying Wallendas
 They could dance on the wire through the fire and the storm
 John Ringling had seen Karl in Cuba perform
 He raised up his kids for performance and stardom
 They performed center ring at Madison Square Garden
 With a seven man pyramid folks lined up just to see 'em
 Till they fell from the sky at Detroit's State Fair Coliseum
 And they fell to the ground with the greatest of ease
 Three didn't get up from the blood in the breeze
 But Karl wouldn't be stopped from his home in the skies
 Till he fell from the wire in San Juan and he died
 In Sarasota as a child my grandparents lived next door
 To the surviving Wallendas and their amazing wild stories
 I was stun and astounded that the old lady who was out
 Pruning her orange trees had flown to the heavens and back