1935 yapımı , w.c. fields'in oynadığı harika bir clyde bruckman filminin müzikleri arasında yer alan enfes parça aynı zamanda.

sözleri şöyledir:

once i was happy, but now i'm forlorn
like an old coat that is tattered and torn;
left on this world to fret and to mourn,
betrayed by a maid in her teens.

the girl that i loved she was handsome;
i tried all i knew her to please
but i could not please her one quarter so well
as the man upon the trapeze.

he'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
that daring young man on the flying trapeze.
his movements were graceful, all girls he could please
and my love he purloined away.

this young man by name was signor bona slang,
tall, big and handsome, as well made as chang.
where'er he appeared the hall loudly rang
with ovation from all people there.

he'd smile from the bar on the people below
and one night he smiled on my love.
she wink'd back at him and she shouted "bravo,"
as he hung by his nose up above.

her father and mother were both on my side
and very hard tried to make her my bride;
her father he sighed, and her mother she cried,
to see her throw herself away.

'twas all no avail, she went there every night,
and would throw him bouquets on the stage,
which caused him to meet her; how he ran me down,
to tell you would take a whole page.

one night i as usual went to her dear home,
found there her father and mother alone.
i asked for my love, and soon they made known,
to my horror that she'd run away.

she'd packed up her box and eloped in the night
with him, with the greatest of ease;
from two stories high he had lowered her down
to the ground on his flying trapeze@e.

some months after this i went to the hall;
was greatly surprised to see on the wall
a bill in red letters, which did my heart gall,
that she was appearing with him.

he'd taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tights,
to help him live at his ease,
and made her assume a masculine name,
and now she goes on the trapeze.

she'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
you'd think her the man young man on the flying trapeze.
her movements were graceful, all girls she could please,
and that was the end of my love.

(nazmania - 4 Şubat 2007 09:35)

william saroyan'ın çok güzel, hüzünlü bir öyküsü.

--- spoiler ---
tanrı'ya giden bir trapez, ya da hiçliğe, bir çeşit sonsuzluğa uçan trapez; herkes adına, bu uçuşu zarafetle yapma kuvveti için dua etti.
--- spoiler ---

(psykhe - 6 Temmuz 2010 09:19)

george leybourne tarafindan 1868'de yazilmis bir sarki. soylentiye gore jules léotard isminde fransiz bir akrobattan esinlenerek yazilmis. paris'te bir sirkte calisan leotard meger trapez'i icat eden adammis. sarkinin nakarati da soyledir:

"he’d fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
that daring young man on the flying trapeze.
his movements were graceful, all girls he could please
and my love he purloined away."

en azindan bir aralar populer bir melodiymis sanirim bu ki bir zamanlarin filmlerinde ara ara karsilasmak mumkundur (the horn blows at midnight (1945) veya frank capra'nin it happened one night(1934) filmleri benim rastladigim iki ornek)

(pneuma - 19 Mayıs 2005 22:57)

sarkiyla bir alakasi olup olmadigini bilemedigim william saroyan tarafindan yazilmis bir hikaye, ve hikayenin icinde bulundugu hikayeler kitabinin adidir...

(pneuma - 19 Mayıs 2005 22:58)