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Verse 1
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He got shafted in Bradford for his out of
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date routines up there
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And the trouble he ran into Brighton
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was more than his share
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He's been running for thirty years,
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he would have settled down
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But each town he appears in put
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s a red nose on the clown
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Verse 2
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You can buy the old showbills and frame them,
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they're nearly antiques
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You can trip up on his big clown shoes as
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you're starting to speak
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He squirts the flower, hurts your hand,
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it'll al ways catch you
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And his tears are etched so deep that they
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Verse 3
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The one man circus is coming to town
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take your trousers down
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Paint on a smile, wipe off the frown
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Heaven knows he won't hurt us
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The loose, the lovely and the lonely
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One night only
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Verse 4
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He said 'I played Chaplin for Hitler
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in March 44
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Been a black and white minstrel before
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that whole thing was outlawed
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And I've dragged it on every
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pier in every seaside town
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But there aren't any dances today,
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the pavilions have all been pulled down
Verse 5
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I came over straight after the war
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and they hijacked my name
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I waited for so many years but
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my wife never came
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I've been learning these lines
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every day since 1945
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And I'll recite them everyday I
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wished I was alive'
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The one man circus is coming to town
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Get the dogs out, tear the posters down
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Paint go home on the walls til he is
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Don't you know he could hurt us
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The loose, the lovely and the lonely
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One night only
Verse 7
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He's tripping over backwards,
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And no- one helps him, everyone knows
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We laugh at
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the misfortune of others
Verse 8
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the glass empties,
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the lions they all get set free
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On a town full of un suspecting tourists who scream when they're
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happy
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Outro 1
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