Carnival Bum Lyrics - Streets Of Sin - Joe Ely

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