Cave Nick The Carny Lyrics

The Carny Lyrics

And no-one saw the carny go
And the weeks flew by
Until they moved on the
show
Leaving his caravan behind
It was parked out on the south east
ridge
And as the company crossed the bridge
With the first rain filling
the bone-dry river bed
It shone, just so, upon the edge
Dog-boy, atlas,
half-man, the geeks, the hired hands
There was not one among them that did
not cas an eye behind
In the hope that the carny would return to his own
kind
And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone
A bow-backed nag, that
he named "sorrow"
How it is buried in a shallow grave
In the then parched
meadow
And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch
And laying
the nag's carcass in the ground
And boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol
around
saying "The nag is dead Meat"
"We caint afford to carry dead
weight"
The whole company standing about
Not making a sound
And
turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
The boss says "Bury this
lump of crow bait"
And thean the rain came
Everybody running for their
wagons
Tying all the canvas flaps down
The mangy cats crowling in ther
cages
The bird-girl flapping and squawking around
The whole valley
reeking of wet beast
Wet beast and rotten hay
Freak and brute
creation
Packed up and on their way
The three dwarves peering from their
wagon's hind
Moses says to Noah "We shoulda dugga deepa one"
Their
grizzled faces like dying moons
Still dirty from the digging done
And as
the company passed from the valley
Into a higher ground
The rain beat on
the ridge and on the meadow
And on the mound
Until nothing was left,
nothing at all
Except the body of sorrow
That rose in time
To float
upon the surface of the eaten soil
And a murder of crows did circle
round
First one, then the others flapping blackly down
And the carny's
van still sat upon the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to
sludge
And the rain it hammered down
And no-one saw the carny go
I say
it's funny how things go