Merry Go Round - Buffalo Tom

Inside is outside

Everywhere no one can hide

Sitting in a door jam

There was a quiet figure of a man

Unused to embellishments

Acquired from establishments

But improvising efforts

Beyond the wide intelligence

His actions were his words

Now from one cynical herd

Of autos on the freeway

There came one wildly small

Enthusiastic 'hooray'

Like a prayer received from far away

In the middle of a fiery day

She turned and made her getaway

She found the good deed in the sun

(Purple green and yellow)

She told him she would like to hold it

(Truthful little fellow)

Not knowing what she’d done

It melted in the sun

The key to the merry go round is the merry

The key to the ferry town is the ferry

It sat on the bridge between happy and scary

The key to the merry go round is the merry

Lost and found on common ground

To rescue on the ladder must be climbed

Instead they got the brushes out

Began on every rung until the shined

Not knowing what they’d done

They painted in the sun

The key to the merry go round is the merry

The key to the ferry town is the ferry

The key to the merry go round is the merry

The key to the ferry town is the ferry

It sat on the bridge between happy and scary

Too long did the young man tarry

Who had stood for good and hope for the masses

Now melted, now sticky, licked up like molasses

Why ask us?

Why not ask us?

Why ask us?

Why not ask us?