Wing-Walker

I fly with Waldo Pepper and we’re coming to your town

We’ll fly about your skies with propellers spinnin' ‘round

Our flying circus will fill you with both pale and awe

We’ll entertain you up in flight and do it without flaw

 

I lean back against the pole holding the guy wire of the wing

Airplane rolls down the grassy strip and I hear the engine sing

Way up in the sky, far up over your head, I walk the wing so free

You stand down upon the ground afraid filled with fear for me

 

The pilot makes a low pass on the crowd assembled on the ground

I stand high atop the bi-wing as he rolls the plane upside down

Screams and moans are heard from all around the crowd

Seeing that I’m all right, then they cheer and clap real loud

 

I stick like glue to that wing as I step my skyward dance

I came here to entertain you, all I require is the chance

You call me courageous, a fool, an idiot, running out time

But you wish you could do it too if the courage you could find

 

When I get back upon the ground, they run to greet me there

It’s as if I was an angel with a halo glowing up above my hair

Through my flying stunts this big crowd lives so precariously

They think me brave out on that wing, my fear they never see

 

We’ll pack our tents and fly away to head for the next towns

The Great Waldo Pepper Flying Circus and his wing dancing clowns

And in every stop we make, yet another crowd will gather nearby

To watch me walk upon the wing and dance free up in the sky

 

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