Testo The Skeleton & The Roundabout Electric Light Orchestra
Climb aboard my roundabout
Climb aboard my roundabout
I am the fairground man at heart
I run the roundabout this part
I fill this fair but custom have I none
I turn the handle round so fast it makes my elbow ache
Nobody seems to care
No-one rides upon my roundabout no longer anymore
Oh what a horrid fair!
Climb aboard my roundabout
Climb aboard my roundabout
Climb aboard my roundabout
Climb aboard my roundabout
Money there is none - Iâm thinner than a skeleton
But wait a minute, Iâm so thin
That all these aches and pains could be a chance for me
I could be a horror or a ghost in a ghost train
I think Iâll go and see
I meet the man who runs the ghost train
He says, "youâre just great!
Iâll pay you top class wages
If youâll just hang from this gate"
A year is passing lots of food and money come my way
Oh lucky man am i
But whoâs this telling me, "youâre fired!
Youâre much too fat to be a ghost, be on your way!"
So here I am
Climb aboard my roundabout
Climb aboard my roundabout
Climb aboard my roundabout
Climb aboard my roundabout