Name: P.T. Barnum
Duration: P00H02M20S
Description: I remember reading Hilary' Gardner's first draft of PT BARNUM for the first time on the subway heading to Brooklyn – besides the lyric being brilliant, it quickly gave me visions of an imaginary drunken one-night Coney Island fling, along with carousel harmonies. I completed the song as a jazz waltz, and this version is a playful duet with Daniel Mintseris.

P.T. Barnum

from Sailor's Daughter by Celia Chavez

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I remember reading Hilary' Gardner's first draft of PT BARNUM for the first time on the subway heading to Brooklyn – besides the lyric being brilliant, it quickly gave me visions of an imaginary drunken one-night Coney Island fling, along with carousel harmonies. I completed the song as a jazz waltz, and this version is a playful duet with Daniel Mintseris.

lyrics

Dizzy and faded from whiskey and wine
This carnival spins inside of my mind
On a carousel of ne'er do well
You and me and P.T. Barnum

Wanting you nearer then wishing you'd go
Accepting deception as part of the show
On a tilt-a-whirl of boy and girl
You and me and P.T. Barnum

Every minute of every day
A sucker's born, that's what they say
But it’s freak fascination, can't look away
Can't pull away
Can't look away

From sequins and sugar and canvas on sticks
The net breaks our fall and we all get our kicks
In this two-bit show of touch and go
You and me and P.T. Barnum
You and me and P.T. Barnum

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from Sailor's Daughter, released July 1, 2007

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Celia Chavez California

Babilonia is the reclaimed creative persona of singer Celia Chavez. This new 5-song EP is an expression of her tenacious faith in love as a solution, and -- the reason for the new moniker Babilonia -- my calling home of all the voices I have summoned in support of other artists over the past decade-plus. ... more

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May 12

McCabes

Santa Monica, CA

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