《The Clown》歌词

歌曲： The Clown

所属专辑：Ultimate Oldies: Scrapple from the Apple (Charles Mingus - The Collection)

歌手： Charles Mingus

时长： 12:25

播放 下载lrc歌词 下载纯文本歌词

The Clown - Charles Mingus[00:00:00]

Man there was this clown [00:00:20]

And he was a real happy guy a real happy guy[00:00:24]

He had all these greens and all these yellows and all[00:00:29]

These oranges bubbling around inside of him [00:00:32]

And he had just one thing he wanted in this world [00:00:35]

He just wanted to make people laugh [00:00:39]

That's all he wanted out of this world [00:00:41]

We was a real happy guy[00:00:44]

Let me tell you about this clown [00:01:08]

He used to a raise a sweat every night[00:01:12]

Out on the stage and just wouldn't stop [00:01:13]

That's how hard he worked [00:01:16]

He was trying to make people laugh [00:01:19]

He used to have this cute little gimmick[00:01:22]

Where he had a seal follow him up and down a step-ladder [00:01:23]

Blowing Columbia the gem of the ocean out on a b-flat scale[00:01:27]

Sears-roebuck a model thirteen twenty-two A plastic bugle [00:01:29]

A real cute act but they didn't laugh [00:01:32]

Well you know a few little things here and there [00:01:38]

But not really and he was booking out in all these tank towns [00:01:41]

Playing the rotary clubs the Kiwanis clubs and the American legion hall;[00:01:46]

And he just wasn't making it [00:01:51]

But he had all these wonderful things going on inside of him [00:01:54]

All these greens and yellows and all these oranges [00:01:56]

He was a real happy guy [00:01:58]

And all he wanted to do was to make these people laugh [00:02:00]

That's all he wanted out of this world [00:02:02]

To make people laugh and then something began to grow [00:02:04]

Something that just wasn't good began growing[00:02:08]

Inside of his head[00:02:10]

You know it's a funny thing [00:03:05]

Something began to trouble this clown [00:03:12]

You know little things little things once in a while would happen [00:03:15]

That would make that crowed begin to howl [00:03:20]

But they were never the right things [00:03:22]

Like for example the time the seal got sick on the stage [00:03:24]

All over the stage the crowd just [00:03:27]

Just broke out little things like that [00:03:29]

And they weren't suppose to[00:03:32]

They weren't supposed to be funny [00:03:33]

This began to trouble him and it bothered him [00:03:37]

And this little thing began to grow inside of him [00:03:39]

And all those greens and all those oranges and all those yellows [00:03:42]

They just weren't as bright as they used to be [00:03:47]

And all he wanted to do was to make that crowd laugh [00:03:50]

That's all he wanted to do[00:03:52]

There was this one night[00:03:55]

When he was playing at the rotary club [00:03:56]

All these dentists all these druggists [00:03:59]

All these postmen sitting around [00:04:02]

And they were a real cold bunch nothing was happening [00:04:04]

He was leaving the stage when he stumbled over his ladder[00:04:08]

And fell flat on his face just flat on his face [00:04:11]

When he stands up and he's got this bloody nose[00:04:18]

And he looks out at the crowd[00:04:21]

And that crowd is just rolling on the floor [00:04:22]

He's just knocked them flat out [00:04:25]

This begins to trouble and even more [00:04:29]

He begins to see something he begins to see something[00:04:31]

And right about here is when things began to change [00:08:47]

But really change [00:08:50]

Not the least of which our clown changes his act [00:08:54]

He bought himself a set of football pads [00:08:57]

A yellow helmet with red stripes [00:09:00]

Hired a girl who dropped a 5-pound sac[00:09:04]

Of flour on his head every night [00:09:06]

Maybe twenty feet up Oh man what a pit [00:09:08]

That just broke them up every night [00:09:10]

But not like the buke [00:09:12]

And all those colors [00:09:16]

All those yellows all those reds all those oranges [00:09:18]

A lot of gray in them now[00:09:23]

Not blue[00:09:24]

And all he wanted was to make this crowd laugh [00:09:25]

That's all he wanted out of this world[00:09:28]

They were laughing alright [00:09:31]

Not like the buke but they were laughing [00:09:34]

And all the dough started coming in [00:09:37]

He was playing the big towns [00:09:39]

Chicago Detroit and then it was Pittsburgh one night[00:09:41]

A real fine town Pittsburgh you know [00:09:45]

But three quarters way through his act a rope broke [00:09:49]

Down came the backdrop right on the back of the neck [00:09:53]

And he went flat and something broke this was it [00:09:57]

It hurt way down deep inside he tried to get up [00:10:08]

He looked out at the audience [00:10:12]

And you should've man you should've [00:10:14]

You should've seen that crowd [00:10:16]

They was rolling in the aisle [00:10:18]

This was bigger than the buke [00:10:22]

This was bigger than the buke[00:10:24]

He really had them going [00:10:29]

This was it this was the last one [00:10:33]

This was the last one This was the last one [00:10:37]

He knew now man he really knew now [00:10:52]

But it was too late[00:11:00]

And all he had wanted was to make this crowd laugh [00:11:03]

Well they were laughing But now he knew [00:11:04]

That was the end of the clown [00:11:13]

And you should have seen the bookings coming [00:11:17]

Man his agent was on the phone for 24 hours [00:11:21]

The Palladium MCA William Morris But it was too late[00:11:25]

He really knew now [00:11:38]

He really knew [00:11:40]

He really knew now [00:11:52]

William Morris sent regrets[00:12:01]