Songtext Jamboree Split Enz

Jamboree

Roll up, roll up, to the jamboree

Roll up, roll up, to the jamboree

Roll up, roll up, troupers jamboree

Old friends a-tend, long time no see

Roll up, roll up, troupers come on down

Big top, non stop, annual reunion

I know what you're thinking, I know what you'll say

But I gotta getta be, at the troupers jamboree
There's safety in numbers, I'll never forget
40 years ago, on with the show

Distant voices calling, calling me

Entertaining me

Memories of the heydays

With the better company

I know what you're thinking, I know what you'll say

But I gotta getta be, at the troupers jamboree
There's safety in numbers, I'll never forget
40 years ago, on with the show

Roll up, roll up, troupers jamboree

Old friends attend, long time no see

Roll up, roll up, troupers come on down

Big top, non stop, annual reunion

Keeping a lonely vigil while the girls all have a ball

The stories come out thick and fast, long, short and tall
There's Frank du Preze on the flying trapeze

Finally come down to earth

Good `ol Chris the contortionist, is bent if not worse

Dear `ol Merle the strip-tease girl, do anything for kicks

And the `ol magician has disappeared, still up to his old tricks

Well the gag man's been gagged

And the straight man's gone straight

The mime artiste too clever for words

And the M.C's still late

Oh Jamboree.. ..oh Jamboree!