Ringling, Ringling

Ringling ringling slippin' away

Only forty people livin' there today

Streets are dusty and

The bank has been torn down

It's a dyin' little town

Church windows broken

That place ain't been used in years

Jail don't have a sheriff or a cell

And electric trains

They run by maybe once or twice a month

Easin' it on down to Mussel Shell

Ringling ringling slippin' away

Only forty people livin' there today

'Cause the streets are dusty

And the bank had been torn down

It's a dyin' little town

And across from the bar

There's a pile of beer cans

Been there twenty-seven years

Imagine all the heartaches and tears

In twenty-seven years of beer

So we hopped back in the rental car

And we hit the cruise control

Pretty soon the town was out of sight

Tho we left behind a fat barmaid

A cowboy and a dog

Racin' for a ringling Friday night

Ringling ringling you're just slippin' away

I wonder how many people will be

There a year from today

'Cause the streets are dusty

And the bank has been torn down

It's a dyin' little town it's a dyin' little town