All Kinds of Kinds

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 dog-faced 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 fiddlin'

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

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 league 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 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

All kinds of kinds

All kinds of kinds