ilsa was an acrobat who went and fell in love with that
horatio the human cannonball
a wedding ‘neath the big top tent with barkers clowns and elephants
sideshow family oddities and all
the dogfaced boy howled out with joy
as the tattooed lady was crying
ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
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
concocted to suppress her appetite
when the children were fiddling she’d slip ’em 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
when i play this old 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 league population sign
ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
it takes all kinds of kinds
now some point a finger and let ignorance linger
if they’d look in the 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
yeah yeah ooh
oh yeah
Artist: Miranda Lambert
Year: 2013
Decade: 10s
Language: en
Word Count: 133