Goodbye Cruel World 1961

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 13 Aug 2013
2013

Goodbye cruel world,
I'm off to join the circus
Gonna be a brokenhearted clown
Paint my face with a goodfornothing smile
because a mean, fickle woman
turned my whole world upside down

Farewell to love,
I'm off to join the circus
Gotta find a way to hide my tears
But I'll have them a rolling in the aisle
And I'll forget that woman
if it takes a hundred years

Step right up
take a look at a fool
He has a heart as stubborn as a mule
Come on ev'rybody,
he's good for a laugh
And no one can tell
his heart is broken in half

Well the joke's on me,
I'm off to join the circus
Mr. Barnum, save a place for me
Shoot me out of a cannon,
I don't care
Let the people point at me and stare
I'll tell the world that woman,
wherever she may be
That mean, fickle woman
made a cryin' clown out of me.

Goodbye cruel world,
I'm off to join the circus
Gonna be a brokenhearted clown
Paint my face with a goodfornothing smile
because a mean, fickle woman
turned my whole world upside down

Farewell to love,
I'm off to join the circus
Gotta find a way to hide my tears
But I'll have them a rolling in the aisle
And I'll forget that woman
if it takes a hundred years

Step right up
take a look at a fool
He has a heart as stubborn as a mule
Come on ev'rybody,
he's good for a laugh
And no one can tell
his heart is broken in half

Well the joke's on me,
I'm off to join the circus
Mr. Barnum, save a place for me
Shoot me out of a cannon,
I don't care
Let the people point at me and stare
I'll tell the world that woman,
wherever she may be
That mean, fickle woman
made a cryin' clown out of me.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Goodbye Cruel World 1961
Recorded by James Darren on Pye Records
words & music by Gloria Shayne
© 1961 by Aldon Music Ltd. London
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This is the piano version of a song I know well and the notes
are all as printed so it doesn't really sound a lot like the original
but it makes an interesting document.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 13 August 2013 at 16.09
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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