Step my tent, said she, "I'd like to read you palm" Leave the dollar in the jar, this won't take very Leave the circus noise behind, close your eyes, your mind tell you, if you should quit now or if you should go on
Then I said, "Now do ya see?" She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee" I go, what'll I be? She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee"
She threw sawdust in the air and her hands began to shake She told me, the town where I was born, she almost the date She lit a candle with her eyes and then she made the rise She the dollar from the jar and then she guessed my weight
Then I said, "Now do ya see?" She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee" You are so old, you are so Deedlee-dum,
Give me a sign, it to me She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee" Then she most quietly Deedlee-dum,
When you we a at school they taught you quite a lot You told when you should speak and when you should not You taught to read and write, to take your lessons home at night A little knowledge serves you well but the golden does not
Then I said, "Now do ya see?" She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee" I go, what'll I be? She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee"
Then when I came home that night to lie in bed I thought of that old gypsy and the that she had said And now I see with due respect, the more we the worse we get So if you feel you've no regrets, go have fortune read
Then I said, "Now do ya see?" She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee" You are so old, you are so Deedlee-dum,
Give me a sign, it to me She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee" Then she most quietly Deedlee-dum,
I go, what'll I be She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee" You are so old, you are so
Deedlee-dum, me a sign, tell it to me She said, "Deedlee-dum, deedlee-dee"