Sour metal smells in a lonely barrel
Don't render me the sorriest parody

Potty gobbed fickle mob clamour for climax
Don't render me the sorriest parody

Be blasted or be lambasted instead
Don't render me the sorriest parody

Cheerio chaps, cheerio goodbye
Cheerio chaps, even cheer me if I die

For me snivellin', for me sufferin', for me constant cowerin'
I get this
My pain played back, like crude happy slap, and for the laff
I get this
Another cosmos, beneath the big top, when I belly flop
I get this

No not hugged or hand shook
Just left bereft, well walloped, wanting to have warwhoopfully have wept

So I gloat with, with gritted grin
To cheat my chin into keeping the womanly wibbling in

Cheerio chaps, cheerio goodbye
Cheerio chaps, even cheer me if I die

For me snivellin', for me sufferin', for me constant cowerin'
I get this
My pain played back, like crude happy slap, and for the laff
I get this
Another cosmos, beneath the big top, when I belly flop
I get this

A requiem in a circus tent