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



 Away, away, we're sad, they said 



 



 Dog-boy, atlas, half-man, the geeks, the hired hands



 There was not one among them that did not cast 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