When the Circus Came to Town

Well, the days are long
 and the work is hard
 When your childhood is spent in the fields
 And summer seemed to last million years
 One day when I was just a boy
 During one of those hot summer swells
 The locusts were silenced by the clanging of bells
 And there was the thing for which I longed
 A place where I belonged
 Where I first held the hand
 of the one I loved
 When the circus came to town
 We ate candy-corns and corn dogs
 Cotton candy and candy-canes
 And we shared a caramel apple by the arcade
 And when night fell and the stars rose
 And light bedazzled the fair
 We rode the Ferris wheel
 Up into the air
 And there was the thing for which I longed
 A place where I belonged
 Where I first held the hand
 of the one I loved
 When the circus came to town
 And later, in the funhouse,
 Our bodies looked so strange
 And the mirrors made our faces seemed deranged
 And the snake-man in the freak-show
 He got you so alarmed
 That you ran and ran and ran
 Right into my arms
 Oh, oh, oh
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 The next morning I got up
 Wrapped my clothes up into a ball
 And I ran and ran to run away with the fair
 But when I arrived, to my surprise,
 All the tents and wagons were gone
 And they'd stolen all that happiness from the air
 And gone was the thing for which I longed
 That place where I belonged
 Where I last held the hand of the one I loved
 When the circus came
 When the circus came
 When the circus came to town