Billy Boy
Joe Ely
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What did you see at the fair little Billy were there pretty girls there my billy Maybe it was the colors and the lights all ablaze Maybe it was face with a candy apple glaze The motorcycle girl put a spell on me the fortune teller said she d tell on me everything was spinning' and it carried me away To a place for a while I thought I wanted to stay What took you so long to get home Billy? Did you stay did you stay till you were there all alone Yeah I stayed till the lights began to grow dim My friends had all left, I couldn't find them I didn't mind at this time cause I didn't think that the rides would stop and the lights would quit blinking or the booths where the men who talked through their noses Would seal them selves tight , like a rose when it closes I didn't think that the color that was all air could disappear so fast and leave nothing there I never dreamed that the music of the calliope could change to the noise of of men takin the street It all turned so strange , it all went so quick The only friend left was the sound of a cricket With my fantasy gone it all seems so real I was left there to feel , what I didn't want to feel No one wants to see when it comes to the end The still ferris wheel when it quits spinning no one wants to hear the sound is too intense When the midway doses and leaves nothing but silence When your soul goes swirling and the worlds in a spinYour heart will never be the same Thats when I got scared And thought I was lost Thats when I heard the sword swallowercough I listened like a rabbit and stopped in a freeze That's when I heard a fat man sneeze There was a light in a trailer I crept to the door And I pressed my ear close and I tried to hear more I heard many voices but they weren't the kind That I'd heard in my life or any other time at the back of my coat there blew a cold wind That's when the Siamese twins took me in the people inside I couldn't believe They weren't like the kind that you see in the street They brushed off my hat and dusted my coat And offered me milk that came from a goat I liked em at once , They treated me good So I told em my story like I thought I should When your soul is a stirring' and the world is in a spin Your heart can never be the same again I told em how different that the midway feels When the lights go out on the ferris wheel and I said to him how you must feel all alone when the music quits to call it your home The tattooed man looked at me in the face And said we couldn't feel right in any other place We will be here til the day we die when I understand I had a tear in my eye I knew this was true and though it seemed lonely It was made for them and them only I left them there holding bak the tears And told them I had hoped that I'd see them next year They laughed and said you can bet on that They all gathered around the trailer house steps and no one was counting any ones bets When your soul is a swirlin' And the worlds in a spin Your heart can never be the same again Back down the dark midway I imagined the lights Shining like torches only much more bright A little I walked than i did before A little older I walked But I knew much more Maybe next year if any older I look I'll run away from home and become the fat mans cook The world is so strange my mother dear It's really a wonder how we all got here Once i thought I was in my place when I was just a babe lookin in your face But now for some reason people have given me doubt It seems some are locked in and some are locked out The world is so strange I can't comprehend The one who wants freedom are the very ones locked in and why does it seem that ones who don't care Breathe in without gratitude and the wild free air My innocence has left by the same door it came and never again will i ever be the same But I'll never forget as long as I live To be grateful to stranglers who ain't afraid to give When your soul is swirling and your worlds in a spin your heart will never be the same again when your heart is swirling and worlds in a spin your world will never be the same again
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