Ely Joe Carnival Bum Lyrics

Carnival Bum Lyrics

The carnival is closed for the winter



The gates are full of nails



All my belongings in a camper truck



In front of some Hell Hole Motel.







The rides are wrapped in canvass



There's a smell of snow in the air



They're taking apart the ferris wheel



Like a game of solitaire.







Love o love I will be home



When the trees are bare and brown



For without you I'm just a carnival bum



Whose fate goes round and round



Whose fate goes round and round







When Little Maggie lost Big Earle



Man, That was about it for her



She was MIA in the Day to Day



The next 3 years were a blur







I left home when Maggie checked out



I been a snowbird ever since



I work the curcuit in the summertime



Come Winter I jump the Fence







Love o love I will be home



When the trees are bare and brown



For without you I'm just a carnival bum



Whose fate goes round and round



Whose fate goes round and round







Darkness comes with the headlights.



It gives me a little relief.



I feel a little more like a leaf in the wind



And a little bit less like a thief.







Sometimes I feel I stole life itself



Im as lucky as a man can be



The carnival is closed for the winter



But it dont matter to me







Love o love I will be home



When the trees are bare and brown



For without you I'm just a carnival bum



Whose fate goes round and round



Whose fate goes round and round