[00:06.24]Album: Four The Record
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[00:27.35]Ilsa was an acrobat who went and fell in love with that
[00:31.67]Horatio the human cannonball.
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[00:36.28]A weddin' 'neath the big top tent with barkers clowns and elephants
[00:40.54]Sideshow family oddities and all.
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[00:44.97]The dog-faced boy howled out with joy
[00:49.29]As the tattooed lady was crying.
[00:53.41]Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
[00:58.41]It takes all kinds of kinds.
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[01:03.16]Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons
[01:07.35]And dresses that he wore on Friday nights.
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[01:12.03]Phyllis was a pharmacist' a dab of that' a pinch of this
[01:16.35]Concocted to suppress her appetite.
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[01:20.54]When the children were fiddlin' she'd slip 'em some Ritalin
[01:25.10]And wait for Thomasina to arrive.
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[01:29.22]Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
[01:34.04]It takes all kinds of kinds.
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[01:38.97]All kinds of kinds.
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[01:59.54]When I play this old guitar from children's shows to smoky bars
[02:04.04]I take a break and think about the past.
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[02:07.91]When I stood up in geometry and everybody stared at me
[02:13.04]And I tossed my test into the trash.
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[02:17.41]I scratched off my number while hitching out under
[02:21.72]That bush league population sign.
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[02:26.07]Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
[02:30.76]It takes all kinds of kinds.
[02:34.69]
[02:35.88]Now some point a finger and let ignorance linger
[02:40.07]If they'd look in the mirror they'd find.
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[02:46.57]That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
[02:51.38]It takes all kinds of kinds.
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[02:56.76]All kinds of kinds.
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[03:01.07]All kinds of kinds.