?[00:31.70]Well, it's all up from Florida at the start of the spring,
[00:35.45]The trucks and the trailers will be winding
[00:39.19]Like a bullet we'll shoot for the carnival route.
[01:06.32][00:43.74]We're following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling.
[00:53.53]From the Michigan mud past the Wisconsin sun
[00:57.56]'Cross that Minnesota border, keep 'em scrambling
[01:01.36]Through the clear county lakes and the lumberjack lands,
[01:15.42]Hit Fargo on the jump and down to Aberdeen
[01:19.59]'Cross them old Black Hills, keep 'em rolling
[01:25.27]Through the cow country towns and the sands of old Montana.
[03:54.33][01:29.48]We're following them fairgrounds a-calling.
[01:52.29]As the white line on the highway sails under your wheels,
[01:56.15]I've gazed from the trailer window laughing.
[01:59.59]Oh, our clothes they was torn but the colors they was bright.
[02:04.27]Following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling.
[02:13.74]It's a-many a friend that follows the bend,
[02:17.87]The jugglers, the hustlers, the gamblers.
[02:21.51]Well, I've spent my time with the fortune-telling kind
[04:12.04][03:17.00][02:58.88][02:26.08]Following them fairgrounds a-calling.
[02:45.83]Oh, it's pound down the rails and it's tie down the tents,
[02:50.04]Get that canvas flag a-flying.
[02:54.25]Well, let the caterpillars spin, let the ferris wheel wind
[03:04.09]Well, it's roll into town straight to the fairgrounds
[03:08.26]Just behind the posters that are hanging
[03:12.67]And it's fill up every space with a different kind of face
[03:42.51]Get the dancing girls in front, get the gambling show behind,
[03:46.78]Hear that old music box a-banging.
[03:50.16]Hear them kids, faces, smiles, up and down the midway aisles
[03:59.97]It's a-drag it on down by the deadline in the town,
[04:04.21]Hit the old highway by the morning
[04:07.95]And it's ride yourself blind for the next town on time
[04:22.39]As the harmonicas whined in the lonesome nighttime
[04:26.47]Drinking red wine as we're rolling,
[04:30.18]Many a turnin' I turn, many a lesson I learn
[04:33.85]From following them fairgrounds a-calling.
[04:48.16]And it's roll back down to St. Petersburg
[04:52.12]Tie down the trailers and camp 'em
[04:55.48]And the money that we made will pay for the space
[04:59.67]From following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling.