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Logger Days, savannah, the menagerie packed its trains

Left Bitter Root, Montana for those old Nebraska plains

Ticket sales were suffering now, with half the animals gone

But the circus kept its course somehow

And the show continued on

Pitched their tents in Battle Creek on a makeshift flatbed stage

With a draytop shotgun rhino’s peak

And a black wrought iron cage

The barker sprung to action as the band began to play

To introduce the new attraction who they’d picked up on the way

Julian

Julian

Julian the Onion who they’d picked up on the way

Ju…

Julian

Julian the Onion who they’d picked up on the way

«Cleanse your minds and palates

As I seldom mince my words

This poor boy’s a walking shallot;

Yes, it’s shocking as you’ve heard!

From his lonesome, yellow childhood, so fantastically deformed

He was battered by his classmates

And sauteed like bantam corn

'Red Vidalias!' 'Valley Sweets!' for twelve long, rotten years

If he so much as skinned his knee

The entire schoolhouse moved to tears

We found him where he’d sprouted

Plotting a garden coup d’etat

In a carrot stick and celery stalk manage-a-mirepoix

Now, feast your caramel eyes on the most savory sight in town!»

All his joking well-evoking peals of laughter from the crowd

But Julian

Julian

Julian the Onion was not laughing with the crowd

Julian

Julian

Julian the Onion was not laughing with the crowd

His jaundiced face was trembling

Beads of sweat began to fall

Down his oblong gooseback forehead

To his snuffed-out lantern jaw

His cut-shoot sprig of hair disheveled

His tiny fists impearled

«No I am not this misshaped body

And I’m not long for this world

Wooden dimes and quiet fears

Come curl your lips at me

But all perceptions are as mirrors

It’s your own reflections that you see

So hide behind your laughs a while

Look handsome though you may

Oh, do enjoy that saccharine smile

As there comes for you a day»

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