All Kinds of Kinds

Elsa was an acrobat
 Who went and fell in love with that
 Horatio, the human cannonball
 A wedding beneath the big top tent
 With barkers, clowns, and elephants
 Sideshow and the oddities and all
 The dogface boy
 Howled out with joy
 As the tattooed lady was cryin'
 Ever since the beginning
 To keep the world spinning
 It takes all kinds of kinds
 Thomas was a congressman
 Whose closet's full of skeletons
 And dresses that he wore on Friday nights
 Phyllis was a pharmacist
 A dap of that a pinch of this
 Concocted to suppress her appetite
 When the children were fiddlin'
 She'd slip them some Ritalin
 And wait for Thomasina to arrive
 'Cause ever since the beginning
 To keep the world spinning
 It takes all kinds of kinds (All kinds of kinds)
 All kinds of kinds
 When I play this old guitar
 At children's shows to smoky bars
 I take a break and think about the past
 When I stood up in geometry
 And everybody stared at me
 And I tossed my test into the trash
 I scratched off my number
 While hitching out under
 That Bushly population sign
 Ever since the beginning
 To keep the world spinning
 It takes all kinds of kinds
 But some point the finger
 Let ignorance linger
 If they'd look in a mirror they'd find
 That ever since the beginning
 To keep the world spinning
 It takes all kinds of kinds (All kinds of kinds)
 All kinds of kinds (All kinds of kinds)
 All kinds of kinds
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