If you ever go out to the circus    Where the Wallendas walk on the wire    I'll tell you a tale to remember    When the white horses leap rings of fire       It was a cold night in Oklahoma    The show was about to begin    The animals they were all restless    When the star horse she broke from her pen       She was a mare of high spirit    Just like a whore on Saturday night    She's kickin' and buckin' past the men who were brushin'    The elephants lyin' on their sides    Next to the tent sat some lanterns    They were dangerously close to the hay    That mare headed straight for those lanterns    Some fool had put there by mistake       Then up stepped some Indian Cowboy    His lasso went whirlin' throught the air    In the full dead middle of danger    He roped that runaway mare       Then the elephants raised up their trumpets    Two of them broke from their chains    Stampeded that Indian Cowboy    Who had saved the big top from flames    So if you ever go out to the circus    Where the Wallendas walk on the wire    You just remember that Indian Cowboy    When the white horses leap rings of fire