[00:00:00] The Clown - Charles Mingus
[00:00:20] Man, there was this clown,
[00:00:24] And he was a real happy guy, a real happy guy
[00:00:29] He had all these greens and all these yellows and all
[00:00:32] These oranges bubbling around inside of him.
[00:00:35] And he had just one thing he wanted in this world,
[00:00:39] He just wanted to make people laugh,
[00:00:41] That's all he wanted out of this world,
[00:00:44] We was a real happy guy
[00:01:08] Let me tell you about this clown,
[00:01:12] He used to a raise a sweat every night
[00:01:13] Out on the stage and just wouldn't stop,
[00:01:16] That's how hard he worked,
[00:01:19] He was trying to make people laugh.
[00:01:22] He used to have this cute little gimmick
[00:01:23] Where he had a seal follow him up and down a step-ladder,
[00:01:27] Blowing Columbia the gem of the ocean out on a b-flat scale
[00:01:29] Sears-roebuck a model thirteen twenty-two A plastic bugle,
[00:01:32] A real cute act, but they didn't laugh,
[00:01:38] Well you know, a few little things here and there,
[00:01:41] But not really, and he was booking out in all these tank towns,
[00:01:46] Playing the rotary clubs, the Kiwanis clubs and the American legion hall;
[00:01:51] And he just wasn't making it,
[00:01:54] But he had all these wonderful things going on inside of him,
[00:01:56] All these greens and yellows and all these oranges,
[00:01:58] He was a real happy guy,
[00:02:00] And all he wanted to do was to make these people laugh,
[00:02:02] That's all he wanted out of this world,
[00:02:04] To make people laugh, and then something began to grow,
[00:02:08] Something that just wasn't good began growing
[00:02:10] Inside of his head
[00:03:05] You know, it's a funny thing.
[00:03:12] Something began to trouble this clown,
[00:03:15] You know little things, little things once in a while would happen,
[00:03:20] That would make that crowed begin to howl,
[00:03:22] But they were never the right things,
[00:03:24] Like for example the time the seal got sick on the stage,
[00:03:27] All over the stage, the crowd just,
[00:03:29] Just broke out, little things like that.
[00:03:32] And they weren't suppose to
[00:03:33] They weren't supposed to be funny.
[00:03:37] This began to trouble him, and it bothered him.
[00:03:39] And this little thing began to grow inside of him.
[00:03:42] And all those greens and all those oranges and all those yellows,
[00:03:47] They just weren't as bright as they used to be.
[00:03:50] And all he wanted to do was to make that crowd laugh,
[00:03:52] That's all he wanted to do
[00:03:55] There was this one night
[00:03:56] When he was playing at the rotary club.
[00:03:59] All these dentists, all these druggists,
[00:04:02] All these postmen sitting around,
[00:04:04] And they were a real cold bunch, nothing was happening.
[00:04:08] He was leaving the stage when he stumbled over his ladder
[00:04:11] And fell flat on his face, just flat on his face.
[00:04:18] When he stands up and he's got this bloody nose
[00:04:21] And he looks out at the crowd
[00:04:22] And that crowd is just rolling on the floor,
[00:04:25] He's just knocked them flat out,
[00:04:29] This begins to trouble and even more.
[00:04:31] He begins to see something, he begins to see something
[00:08:47] And right about here is when things began to change,
[00:08:50] But really change.
[00:08:54] Not the least of which our clown changes his act.
[00:08:57] He bought himself a set of football pads,
[00:09:00] A yellow helmet with red stripes,
[00:09:04] Hired a girl who dropped a 5-pound sac
[00:09:06] Of flour on his head every night,
[00:09:08] Maybe twenty feet up. Oh man, what a pit,
[00:09:10] That just broke them up every night,
[00:09:12] But not like the buke.
[00:09:16] And all those colors,
[00:09:18] All those yellows, all those reds, all those oranges,
[00:09:23] A lot of gray in them now
[00:09:24] Not blue
[00:09:25] And all he wanted was to make this crowd laugh,
[00:09:28] That's all he wanted out of this world
[00:09:31] They were laughing alright,
[00:09:34] Not like the buke but they were laughing,
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