The Man on the Flying Trapeze chords by Bing Crosby

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Verse 1
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Once I was happy,
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but now I'm forlorn
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Like an old coat that
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is tattered and torn
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Left in this wide world to
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weep and to mourn
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Betrayed by a maid in her teens
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Now this girl that I love,
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she was handsome,
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and I tried all I knew her to please,
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but I never could please her one quarter so
well as the man on the flying trapeze.
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Oh, he floats through the air
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with the greatest of ease
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This daring young man
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on the flying trapeze
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His actions are graceful,
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all girls he does please
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My love he has stolen away
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One night I,  as usual,
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went to  her dear home,
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Found there her father and mother alone.
I asked for my love
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and it soon was made known,
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To my horror that she'd run away.
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Without any   true soul
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she fled in the night,
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With him,  with the greatest of ease.
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From two stories high
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he had lowered her down
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To the ground on his flying trapeze
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Oh, he floats through the air
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with the greatest of ease
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This daring young man on
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the flying trapeze
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His actions are graceful,
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girls, he does please
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My love he has stolen away
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Some months after that I went into a hall
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And to my surprise I found there on the wall
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A bill in red letters that did my heart go
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As she was appearing with him
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Oh, taught her gymnastics
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and dressed her in tights
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To help him to live at his ease
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He had made her take on
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a masculine name
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And now she goes on       the trapeze
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Oh, she floats through the air
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with the greatest of ease
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You'd think her a man
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on the flying trapeze
She does all the work while
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he takes his ease
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And that's what's become of  my love