Hurrah, the Circus is coming to town
And my heart is beginning to pound
With the runners and jumpers
And swimmers and punchers

And Ronald McDonald the clown
Yippee, the Circus will soon be in town
With its lights and its smells and its sound
With the food and the dips

And the burgers and chips
And enough Coca Cola you could drown
What joy, the Circus is nearly in town
Happy faces with never a frown

With a Circus big tent worth millions
And the whole caboodle costing billions
And a super Dow Chemicals wrap-around
Happy days, the Circus arrives

It will light up the rest of our lives
With the synchronised swimmers
And the gold medal winners
And the corporate profits set to rise

Praise the Lord, the circus is here
And there’s absolutely nothing to fear
We have missiles on the roof
We have police on the hoof
And the army and tanks everywhere

Thank you Boris and Beckham and Coe
For bringing us the best ever Show
But tickets might cost yer
And the drug cheats might prosper
And the Zil-lanes might make it no-go.

It’s The Greatest Show on Earth as you know
After London it all goes to Rio
Where the IOC will get the riches
While the poor live in the ditches
It’s the same circus story, twas always so.

Boo hoo, the Circus is leaving our city
And our lives will get increasingly shitty
They fed us the corporate Games
And the Jubilee on the Tames
Now no more bread and circuses for us what a pity.