
Ensirio the Longstrider |

Come one, come all!
Leave your loops 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 the kingdom 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 shock the priest!
Ev'rything is topsy turvy at the Feast of 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 this first of "Aprisurvy"
All because it's Topy Turvy Day!
Here it is, the 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!
So make a face that's horrible and frightening!
Make a face as gruesome as a gargoyle's wing!
For the face that's ugliest will be the King of Fools!
Topsy turvy! Ugly folk, forget your shyness.
Topsy turvy! You could soon be called Your Highness!
Put your foulest features on display -
Be the king of Topsy Turvy Day!
Ev'rybody!
Once a year we throw a party here in town!
Once a year we turn the kingdom upside down!
Once a year, the ugliest will wear a crown!
Girls, give a kiss, We've never had a king like this!
And it's the day we do the things that we deplore,
On the other three hundred and sixty-four!
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 Day!
Mad and crazy,
Upsy-daisy,
Topsy Turvy Day!!!