《The Clown》歌词

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:11:38] He really knew now

[00:11:40] He really knew

[00:11:52] He really knew now

[00:12:01] William Morris sent regrets