Barnum movie - There Is A Sucker Born Every Minute lyrics

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There is a sucker born every minute

Each time that second hand sweeps to the top

Like dandelions up they pop,

Their ears so big, their eyes so wide.

And though I feed ‘em bonafide baloney

With no truth in it

Why you can bet I’ll find some rube to buy my corn.

‘Cause there’s a sure-as-shootin' sucker born a minute,

And I’m referrin’ to the minute you was born.

Each blessed hour brings sixty of ‘em

Each time that wooden cuckoo shows his face

Another sucker takes his place,

Plunks his quarter on the line

To buy my brand of genuine malarkey.

God bless and love ‘em!

But don’t feel sad or hoppin’ mad or cause a scene

‘Cause there’s a sure-as-shootin' sucker born a minute,

But man you mighta been the minute in between.

If I allow that right here in my hands

The smallest living human man

The sight of that is surely worth a dime

If I present an educated pooch

Who’s trained to dance the hoochie cooch

What better way to waste a bit of time

If I import at monumental cost

A lady, fair, whose head was lost

While crossing railroad tracks to pick some zinnias

Who has no ears or eyes or nose

And wears pink tights instead of clothes

If that ain’t worth a buck my name ain’t Phineas

Aw you say that’s hogwash well who cares

You’ll buy my hogwash long as

There’s a sucker born every minute

Each time that second hand sweeps to the top

Like dandelions up they pop,

Ears so big, eyes so wide.

And though my tale is bonafide baloney,

Just let me spin it,

There ain’t no man who can resist me wait and see

‘Cause there’s a sure-as-shooting sucker born a minute,

And friends the biggest one excluding none is me!

Thanks to vikki for correcting these lyrics