Hip Hip Hooray - Circus Contraption

I heard the distant drum beat

A sweet sound of the fife

And from this song, a calling

A purpose to my life

Lift them up and let them see

How much they stand again

Living by my word, indeed

A cut against the grain

Like a blinding sense of vision

Or a brush fire in the weeds

A show to finally end all shows

Is what the people need

And we sing

Hip hip hooray

And let your cheers be heard

Hip hip hooray

And let your soul be stirred

Once you get them in the dye

You know they’re gonna ask for more

Hip hip hooray

Hip hip hooray

Suitable, they say

Hip hip hooray

P. T. Barnum once said there’s a sucker born every minute

I think I can cut the time in half

But it is very simple

Let the cream rise to the top

Skim a little just for taste

While tending to the flock

I’ll change wine back into water

Then offer you a drink

You can lead a horse to slaughter

But you cannot make him think

With surgical precision

And attention to detail

I can build a human empire

That will never, never fail

Hip hip hooray

Leave nothing to chance

Hip hip hooray

Invision every circumstance

No dime museum, no raree show

A spectacle as apropos

They’ll all fall down before they go

And they have nowhere left to go

Sing hip hip hooray

I’ll gather them into the pin

Rinse, repeat, begin again

Nothing is beyond my kin

It’s my own version of amen

Sing hip hip hooray

Oh, let me hear it

Sing hip hip hooray