When The Circus Came To Town

Intro:
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Well the days are long, and the work
 is hard
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When your childhood is spent in the
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 fields
And summer seemed to last a million 
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years
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One day when I was just a boy
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During one of those hot summer 
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swells
The locusts were silenced by the 
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clanging of bells

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And there was the thing for which
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 I longed
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A place where I belonged
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Where I first held the hand of the 
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one I loved   (pause)
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When the circus came to town

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We ate candy corns and corn dogs
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Cotton candy and candy canes
And we shared a caramel apple by the
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 arcade
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And when night fell, and the stars 
rose
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And lights bedazzled the fair
We rode the Ferris Wheel up into the
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 air

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And there was the thing for which
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 I longed
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A place where I belonged
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Where I first held the hand of the 
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one I loved   (pause)
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When the circus came to town

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And later in the fun-house, our 
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bodies looked so strange
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And the mirrors made our faces seem
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 deranged
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And the snake man, in the freak show
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He got you so alarmed
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That you ran and ran and ran right 
into my arms, oh oh oh

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The next morning, I got up
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Wrapped my clothes up into a ball
And I ran and ran to run away with 
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the fair
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But when I arrived, to my surprise
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All the tents and wagons were gone
And they'd stolen all the happiness 
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from the air

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And gone was the thing for which I 
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longed
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That place where I belonged
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Where I last held the hand of the 
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one I loved    (pause)
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When the circus came
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When the circus came
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When the circus came to town


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