CLOWN

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Song Title
CLOWN
Writers
Mctell
Publisher
ESSEX MUSIC INTERNATIONAL, INC. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
US AND CANADA
Themes/Keywords
1960's, Children, Clown, Laughter, Lights, Lost, Melancholy, Sad
Lyrics
The lights have gone dim and the people are gone,
And clown goes back into his caravan,
Hangs up his smile on a hook by the door
And lets his ragged coat slip to the floor,
With the sound of the children’s laughter still ringing in his ears,
Laughing ‘cause they’re happy, they laugh to hide their fears.
Clown loves the children for like him,
They feel the world does not exist tonight
And only the circus, only the circus is real,
As real as the elephants that trumpet in the ring,
Real as the trapeze, see it swing,
Real as the man who eats real fire,
Real as the lady on the high wire.

But the people are gone, his identity gone,
Clown peeps through the windows of his caravan.
From the trees on the common, the town looks so small.
Clown puts on his coat and goes out the door,
And the distant neon lights, they shine above the town.
Looks almost like a circus thinks clown,
And half with fear, half with delight, shiv’ring, shaking,
Clown stands laughing, clown stands laughing,
Clown stands laughing at the night.

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