A
Ilsa was an acrobat
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Who went and fell in love with that
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Horatio the human cannonball
A
A wedding 'neath the big-top tent
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With Barkers, clowns and elephants
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Sideshow and the oddities and all
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The dog-faced boy howled out with joy
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As the tattooed lady was cryin'
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Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
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It takes all kinds of kinds

Thomas was a congressman 
With closets full of skeletons
And dresses that he wore on Friday nights
Phyllis was a pharmacist
A dab of that a pinch of this
Concoted to suppress her appetite
And when the children were fiddlin'
She'd slip 'em some Ridalin 
And wait for thomasina to arrive
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
All kinds of kinds

When I play this old guitar
From 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 bush-lee population sign
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds

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Some point the finger let ignorance linger
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If they'd look in the mirror they'd find
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That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
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It takes all kinds of kinds
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All kinds of kinds 
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All kinds of kinds