Tompall Glaser - The Wonder Of It All lyrics

Candy spun in little clouds That melted as it touched his mouth Made him want to smile out loud Laughter in the taste A spinning wheel that stood so high In many splendid coat of lights Carried him right to the sky And took his breath away Ruby did her dance again And the way she danced entranced the men And left their minds entangled in The fever of desire Upon the stage her mama sat The billboard said two tons of fat Slightly to the right of that Her daddy swallowed fire Yes he did A tattooed man stood tall and thin His life engraved upon his skin From birth to d**h and back again And some wishes left unfilled A flipping twisting acrobat A midget with a magic hat A world of fantasy and fact Where the laughter overspills Lord, the wonder was unspeakable And too much to take in all at once Too much is often worser than too little Sometime He just sat there in his daddy's truck Deaf and dumb and thunderstruck The wonder of it all Was almost too much for his mind Now the march of time has slowed his pace And the child is gone now from his face And with his grandson in his place He remembers other times He marveled at the barkers call And the decorated canvas walls And again the wonder of it all Echoes clearly in his mind Candy spun in little clouds That melted as it touched his mouth Made him want to smile out loud Laughter in the taste A spinning wheel that stood so high In many splendid coat of lights Carried him right to the sky And took his breath away