George Leybourne

“ To help him to live at his ease,
And made her assume a masculine name
And now she goes on the Trapeze!
CHORUS.
She floats through the air with the greatest of ease,
You'd think her a man on the flying Trapeze,
She does all the work while he takes his ease,
And that's what's become of my love. ”

“ Like an old coat that is tattered and torn,
Left on this wide world to fret and to mourn,
Betray'd by a maid in her teens.
The girl that I lov'd she was handsome,
I tried all I knew her to please. ”