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Now the curtain is going up,
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The entertainer is taking a bow,
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Does his dance step and sings his song,
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Even gets all the audience to sing along,
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Yes, he knows just what he must do,
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Knows how to bring down the house when he’s through,
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Snappy patter and jokes, he knows what pleases the folks,
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The entertainer, the star of the show.
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It was in vaudeville and he was on the bill,
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With all the singers, dancers, acrobats and clowns,
There was a dancing bear, even a dog act there,
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And a comedian who never let ‘em down,
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But, when he came on to do his fav’rite song,
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He really wowed ‘em in the cities and the towns,
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They came from near and far, to see the vaudeville star,
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The entertainer!
