Tubby At The Circus — текст песни (Manhattan Transfer)

Tubby (Tim Hauser)
When the buds begin to pop
And the robin takes a hop
Everybody says, It`s spring today!
I suppose that may be so,
But I`d like for you to know
I can always tell it`s spring another way/
I can always tell it`s spring
When the circus comes to town;
It makes me want to sing
When I bump into a clown!
When the circus marches past
And the band goes tan-ta-ra
I know it`s spring at last,
And my heart goes, OOM-PAH!

Tubby`s Idea (Cheryl Bentyne)
Alley-oop, OOM-PAH,
Alley-oop, OOM-PAH,
An acrobat you ought to be,
Alley-oop, OOM-PAH,
Alley-oop, OOM-PAH,
Hey Tubby! You`d be a sight to see!

Elephant (Alan Paul)
Be yourself, you can`t be anybody else,
Be yourself is my advice to you,
Or else you`ll always be a nobody,
So be yourself, or else.
A hippopotamus
Would look very curious
Flying like a butterfly;
A fierce and hungry lion
Would look silly tryin`
To bake an apple pie.
I think you`d get a laugh
If you saw a tall giraffe
Swinging by his tail from a tree;
I think an octopus
Would look quite ridiculous
Knitting sweaters at the bottom of the sea.
So be yourself, and do the things that you know best,
Be yourself, I think that you`d be happiest
By being no one else but you.