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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!



Originally compiled by Douglas Davey, 1993.

All corrections appreciated (Email to dld1@waikato.ac.nz)

01/01/94