Productor: Jonathan Peel.
Ingeniero: Jeff Jarratt, John Kerlander.
Estudio: EMI Studios.
Discográfica: Harvest Records.
N° de catalogo: SHVL 783.
Diseño de portada, fotografía: Hipgnosis.
Notas: Mark Brennan.
Tracklist:
Lado 1.
01 Borderline.
(Greatest Show on Earth) 9:16
02 Magic Woman Touch.
(Watt-Roy/Horton-Jennings) 5:11
03 Story Times And Nursery Rhymes.
(Watt-Roy/Horton-Jennings) 4:50
Lado 2.
04 The Leader.
(Greatest Show on Earth) 5:43
05 Love Magnet.
(Hanson/Watt-Roy/Aitchison) 9:26
06 Tell The Story.
(Deacon/Prudence/Phillpotts) 4:29
Bonus Track, re-edición:
07 Mountain Song.
(Watt-Roy) 2:57
Duración total: 42:13 minutos.
Vinyl Long Play - Edición U.K:
Discográfica: Harvest Records.
N° de catalogo: SHVL 783.
Compact Disc - Edición 1994, Alemania:
Discográfica: Repertoire Records.
N° de catalogo: REP 4483-WP.
Compact Disc - Edición 2005 Alemania:
Discográfica: Repertoire Records.
N° de catalogo: REP 5058.
The Greatest Show on Earth:
Garth Watt-Roy: Voz, guitarra eléctrica, guitarra acústica.
Norman Watt-Roy: Voz, bajo eléctrico.
Mick Deacon: Órgano, piano, voz.
Tex Philpotts: Saxofón tenor, saxofón alto, percusión.
Dick Hanson: Trompeta, fliscorno, percusión.
Ron Prudence: Batería, congas.
Letras:
Borderline.
(Greatest Show on Earth)
Some people try to mess you round
And some'll even bring you down
You climb aboard the roundabout
Turn your body inside out
There's people heading on your feet
You just don't seem to make ends meet
You're working at the break of day
There's always some bum in your way.
You believe in tomorrow
Why I'm breathing today
You got something to tell the world
You got something to say.
I see the black and the white man ain't groovin' all they can
Don't you know that it's time that you find out your borderline.
I feel something inside me
The Lord only knows I need to be free
Pay my debt to society, break the lease that keeps binding me
I see the black and the white man ain't groovin' all they can
Don't you know that it's time you find out your borderline.
Magic Woman Touch.
(Watt-Roy/Horton-Jennings)
Cast your spell upon me one more time
I want to feel your magic woman touch.
I'm looking through at yesterday
All my life thrown away
Keep searching for the vital clue
How can’t get to you.
I've made up my mind what I'm gonna say
this feeling inside is making it alright,
making it alright
Making it alright with me.
Cast your spell upon me one more time
I want to feel your magic woman touch.
It's plain to see a change in me
Ask me why I don't know
My friends no longer speak to me
Pass me by I don't know why
I've got to decide what I'm gonna do
This feeling inside's making it alright,
making it alright
Making it alright with me.
Vibrations coming through to me
Till my eyes constantly
And anytime I feel you’re near
Makes my troubles disappear
I've made up my mind what I'm gonna say
This feeling inside's making it alright,
making it alright,
Making it alright with me.
Story Times And Nursery Rhymes.
(Watt-Roy/Horton-Jennings)
Creeping down to me slowly like a song from yesterday
Whispers into my memory as the night time fades away
Imagination makes you feel good
Empty days are lost in childhood
Can't you see you were innocently happy
Time to break the old routine
Be a toy, cowboy or a time machine
Can't you see you were innocently happy.
Take a jump backwards and spinning round
Lift your feet skyways and leave the ground
See me here drowning in nursery rhymes
Let me ,sleep gently it's storytime.
Dreaming I can fly gently to house of a magical man
Running wildly down in a forest ride a painted caravan
Fairylights and crystal balls
Rolling hills and waterfalls
Fill your eyes with fantasies forever
Meet the land of midnight sun
Second childhood has begun
Fill your eyes with fantasies forever.
The Leader.
(Greatest Show on Earth)
Ambitious politician has a statue in the park
The leader raised his arm to make the grade
Take a stand for history and let the world be dark
Now mothers weep for sons and kneel to pray.
Power-mad dictator gets to using men like sheep
Blind to see the paths they're being lead
Where the agitator walks freedom's left to sleep
Now liberty democracy are dead.
Greet the golden sunrise when the dawn reveals the truth
A change of mood can brings quick decline
The needle sharp orator's lost the fire of his youth
By sunset he is from another time.
Stood alone by the edge of the sand
And the promises for man were hollow
Felt the air had a sense of despair
When the leader sang so I could follow
Tormented with rage, demented by age
I could see by his eyes he was crying
A man incomplete, a man in defeat
Just silently waiting and dying.
Love Magnet.
(Hanson/Watt-Roy/Aitchison)
The time and seasons here for a woman in my life
When seeing you will be exciting
Our rhyme and reason's wrong, but
The hidden force is right.
Love gets to me and sets the dragnet
Attracts you to me and like magnet
Pulls me closer to await another day
Writes new chapters with emotion
A subtle change on all my principle obeyed.
Sense the fell to feel the sense of tasting love
Sees many customers repeated
The cycles moving live the restless cloud above.
Tell The Story.
(Deacon/Prudence/Phillpotts)
Keep on telling me the story
Take a lesson how a man survives
Keep on telling me the story, yeah
If I'm breathing arn I still alive
Teach me all the naked lies to keep the story true.
Keep on showing me a reason
Why money rules the laws I'm bound
Anytime you've any kind of reason, yeah
When I'm high the people put me down
I need an understudy mind and body to play
for me and you.
Keep on telling me the story
About life the heavy dummy-run
Keep on telling me the story, yeah
When I'm dead I'm gonna have my fun
You gotta hit with surprise to keep the story true.
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