Topsy Turvy

Come one, come all
Leave your looms and milking stools
Coop the hens and pen the mules
Come one, come all
Close the churches and the schools
It's the day for breaking rules
Come and join the feast of
(Fools!)

Once a year we throw a party here in town
Once a year we turn all Paris upside down
Ev'ry man's a king and ev'ry king's a clown
Once again it's Topsy Turvy Day

It's the day the devil in us gets released
It's the day we mock the prig and chuck the priest
Ev'rything is topsy turvy
At the Feast of the Fools

(Topsy Turvy)!
Ev'rything is upsy daysy
(Topsy Turvy)!
(Ev'ryone is acting crazy)
Dross is gold and weeds are a bouquet
That's the way on Topsy Turvy Day

Topsy Turvy!
(Beat the drums and blow
the trumpets)
Topsy Turvy!
(Join the bums
And thieves and strumpets)
Streaming in from Chartres to Calais
(Scurvy knaves are extra scurvy)
On the 6th of January
(All because it's Topsy Turvy Day)

Come one, come all
(Hurry, hurry, here's your chance)
(See the myst'ry and romance)
Come one, come all!
(See the finest girl in France
make an entrance to entrance)
Dance la Esmeralda
Dance!

Here it is
A moment you've been waiting for
Here it is
You know exactly what's in store
Now's the time we laugh until our sides get sore
Now's the time we crown
The King of Fools!
You all remember last year's king

So make a face that's horrible and frightening
Make a face as gruesome as a gargoyle's wing
For the face that is the ugliest will be the King of Fools, why?
(Topsy Turvy)!
Ugly folk forget your shyness
(Topsy Turvy)!
You could soon be called your Highness
(Put your foulest creatures
on display)
Be the King of Topsy Turvy Day

Ev'rybody!
(Once a year we throw a party here in town)
(Hail to the King)
(Once a year we turn all Paris upside down)
Oh, what a King
(Once a year the ugliest will wear the crown)
Girls, give a kiss
(Once a year on Topsy Turvy Day) We've never had a King like this

And it's the day we do the things that we deplore
On the other 364
Once a year we love to drop in
Where the beer is never stoppin'
For the chance to pop some popinjay
And pick a King who'll put the top in
Topsy Turvy,Topsy Turvy!
Mad and crazy, upsy-daisy
Topsy Turvy Day