Ringling Road

Train rolls in at 10 AM

Kill the lamb for the lion, find some water for the elephants

The monkey on my shoulder got a monkey on his back

Could I bum a cigarette, he done smoked my last pack

Put up the big top, throw down the sawdust

We don't open till tomorrow, so step right up

We got beer for the bearded lady

And the Siamese twins are into opium

And the trapeze guys are all high on cocaine

That they buy from a guy that used to drive the train

We got water for the elephants

Everybody knows the greatest party on earth

Is the circus down on Ringling Road

Well, the tattoo man was making out with snake lady

Just to piss off the human cannonball that she'd been dating

The clown got wasted, now he's throwing his shoes

At a bear on a bike with a bottle of booze

The tightrope walker is too damn high

Welcome to a freak show Friday night

We got beer for the bearded lady

And the Siamese twins are into opium

And the trapeze guys are all high on cocaine

That they buy from a guy that used to drive the train

We got water for the elephants

Everybody knows the greatest party on earth

Is the circus down on Ringling Road

Ringling Road

Down on Ringling Road

We got beer for the bearded lady

And the Siamese twins are into opium

And the trapeze guys are all high on cocaine

That they buy from a guy that used to drive the train

We got beer for the bearded lady

And the Siamese twins are into opium

And the trapeze guys are all high on cocaine

That they buy from a guy that used to drive the train

We got water for the elephants

Everybody knows the greatest party on earth

Is the circus down on Ringling Road