Intro:
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Well the days are long, and the work is hard
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When your childhood is spent in the fields
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And summer seemed to last a million years
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One day when I was just a boy
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During one of those hot summer swells
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The locusts were silenced by the clanging of bells

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And there was the thing for which I longed
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A place where I belonged
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Where I first held the hand of the one I loved   (pause)
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When the circus came to town

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We ate candy corns and corn dogs
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Cotton candy and candy canes
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And we shared a caramel apple by the arcade
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And when night fell, and the stars rose
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And lights bedazzled the fair
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We rode the Ferris Wheel up into the air

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And there was the thing for which I longed
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A place where I belonged
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Where I first held the hand of the one I loved   (pause)
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When the circus came to town

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And later in the fun-house, our bodies looked so strange
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And the mirrors made our faces seem deranged
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And the snake man, in the freak show
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He got you so alarmed
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That you ran and ran and ran right into my arms, oh oh oh

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The next morning, I got up
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Wrapped my clothes up into a ball
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And I ran and ran to run away with the fair
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But when I arrived, to my surprise
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All the tents and wagons were gone
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And they'd stolen all the happiness from the air

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And gone was the thing for which I longed
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That place where I belonged
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Where I last held the hand of the one I loved    (pause)
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When the circus came 
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When the circus came
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When the circus came to town 


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