Topsy Turvy Lyrics

Topsy Turvy lyrics

CROWD 

 Come one, come all!

 Leave your loops and milking stools

 Coop the hens and pen the mules

 Come one, come all!

 Close the churches and the schools

 It's the day for breaking rules

 

 Come and join the feast of ... 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Fools!

 

 Once a year we throw a party here in town

 Once a year we turn all Paris upside down

 Ev'ry man's a king and ev'ry king's a clown

 Once again it's Topsy Turvy Day

 It's the day the devil in us gets released

 It's the day we mock the prig and shock the priest

 Ev'rything is topsy turvy at the Feast of Fools! 

 

 CROWD 

 Topsy turvy! 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Ev'rything is upsy daysy! 

 

 CROWD 

 Topsy turvy! 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Ev'ryone is acting crazy

 Dross is gold and weeds are a bouquet

 That's the way on Topsy Turvy Day 

 

 ALL 

 Topsy Turvy! 

 

 CLOPIN AND CROWD 

 Beat the drums and blow the trumpets 

 

 ALL 

 Topsy Turvy! 

 

 CLOPIN AND CROWD 

 Join the bums and thieves and strumpets

 Streaming in from Chartres to Calais 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Scurvy knaves are extra scurvy

 On the sixth of "Januervy" 

 

 CLOPIN AND CROWD 

 All because it's Topsy Turvy Day! 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Come one, come all!

 Hurry, hurry, here's your chance

 See the myst'ry and romance

 Come one, come all

 See the finest girl in France

 Make an entrance to entrance

 Dance la Esmeralda

 Dance!

 

 Here it is, the moment you've been waiting for

 Here it is, you know exactly what's in store

 Now's the time we laugh until our sides get sore

 Now's the time we crown the King of Fools!

 So make a face that's horrible and frightening

 Make a face as gruesome as a gargoyle's wing

 For the face that's ugliest will be the King of Fools!

 Why? 

 

 CROWD 

 Topsy turvy! 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Ugly folk, forget your shyness 

 

 CROWD 

 Topsy turvy! 

 

 CLOPIN 

 You could soon be called Your Highness! 

 

 CROWD 

 Put your foulest features on display

 Be the king of Topsy Turvy Day! 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Ev'rybody! 

 

 CROWD 

 Once a year we throw a party here in town 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Hail to the king! 

 

 CROWD 

 Once a year we turn all Paris upside down 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Oh, what a king! 

 

 CROWD 

 Once a year, the ugliest will wear a crown 

 

 CLOPIN 

 Girls, give a kiss 

 

 CROWD 

 Once a year on Topsy Turvy Day 

 

 CLOPIN 

 We've never had a king like this 

 

 CLOPIN AND CROWD 

 And it's the day we do the things that we deplore

 On the other three hundred and sixty-four

 Once a year we love to drop in

 Where the beer is never stoppin

 For the chance to pop some popinjay

 And pick a king who'll put the "top" in

 Topsy Turvy Day!

 Mad and crazy, upsy-daisy, Topsy Turvy Day!