[Verse 1]
I don’t why I never grew
The world too much for me
Fell in with clowns and acrobats
Nothing else to be
I saw the limelight of New York
I saw the Golden Mile
A life as memorabilia
Here to make you smile

[Chorus]
Show folk, show folk
They’ll tell you that they love you
Show folk, show folk
It’s all that they can do

[Verse 2]
See, love’s a ghost in every heart
That has to dream alone
I used to watch confetti fall
And fancy it my own
Jimmy Mac, head in the clouds
Perhaps a little shy
He came to ask me if "I do"
A joy that made me cry

[Chorus]
Show folk, show folk
They tell you that they love you
Show folk, show folk
It’s all that they can do

[Verse 3]
There were crowds that summer’s day
We flickered in the news
The stage looks different from the wings
Perhaps I always knew
I waved for each photographer
They froze me for all time
The angel on my shoulder lied
Perhaps the lie was mine
[Chorus]
Show folk, show folk
They tell you that they love you
Show folk, show folk
It’s all that they can do
Show folk, show folk
They tell you that they love you
Show folk, show folk
It’s all that they can do