Name: Ringmaster
Duration: P00H03M10S
Description: This one goes crudely blue awful early, which I apologize for, and it gets pretty scattered in its rhyme scheme, but I still think it's worth a listen. Partially inspired by a trip to Coney Island with my brother John, and a visit to the freak show there. They really had some kind of taxidermied creature.

Ringmaster

from Too Much Entertainment by Dan Kilian and The Million Man Band

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This one goes crudely blue awful early, which I apologize for, and it gets pretty scattered in its rhyme scheme, but I still think it's worth a listen. Partially inspired by a trip to Coney Island with my brother John, and a visit to the freak show there. They really had some kind of taxidermied creature.

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I’m the ringmaster for this circus
You’re gonna have to suck us or you’re gonna have to jerk us
If you want to get in to the real show in the back
Cause our freaks are the very best freaks
We’ve got a full-grown dwarf and nun who never speaks
And a two headed man who’s been decapitated twice
He’s still walking around; he’s got broad shoulders
We’ve got an old man who keeps getting older
Every minute of the day he says
He’s got an hourglass and it’s empty
We’ve got a clown who doesn’t wear make-up
Watch the Siamese twins kiss and make up
And make out with each other and their mother
It’s not a clean show but you knew that coming in
And the bearded lady she’s going bald
And we’ve got this kid who’s just sick of it all
And I mean every disease, for a dollar you can watch him slowly die And if you’ve got five he’ll come back alive
And if you’ve got ten you can look in
At this taxidermied creature we did something weird with
It doesn’t look too good but you can tell your friends you saw it and they didn’t
That's right
And any sin that you’d like to look on
And any drug you’d like to get hooked on
Any crime or inequity
Because we’re the dregs of society
We couldn’t make it in show business so we ended up here
And I’m the ringmaster for this circus all you malingerers and lurkers Better come up with some scratch or get out of here
Then there are those sexual favors I mentioned earlier...
I’m the ringmaster to this circus
At least I made it this far
At least I’m not a whore
But we’ve got those too!
Gentlemen behind door flap number two!
We got it all!
We got it all!
Ladies and gentlemen, we got it all!

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from Too Much Entertainment, released September 1, 2021

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Dan Kilian and The Million Man Band New York, New York

Dan Kilian swallows hot coals of worry, regret and sorrow, then spits out rough diamonds of pop music. He's well regarded in the Antifolk scene, and whatever that is happening in Park Slope.

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