《The Clown(LP版)》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