The Carny Lyrics - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

And no-one saw the Carny go, 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 to say 

Dog-boy, Atlas, Mandrake, 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 

The Carny left behind a horse so skin and bone that he'd named Sorrow 

And it was in a shallow, unmarked grave 

That that old nag was laid 

In the then parched meadow 

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And it was the dwarves that were given the task of digging the ditch 

And laying the nag's carcass in the ground 

While boss Bellini, waving his smoking pistol around 

saying "The nag was dead meat" 

"We can't afford to carry dead weight" 

While 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 the rain came hammering down 

Everybody running for their wagons 

Tying all the canvas flaps down 

The mangy cats growling in their cages 

The bird-girl flapping and squawking around 

The whole valley reeking of wet beast 

Wet beast and rotten, sodden hay 

Freak and brute creation 

Packed up and on their way 

The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind 

Moses says to Noah "Shoulda dugga deepa one" 

Their grizzled faces like dying moons 

Still dirty from the digging done 

And Charlie the Atlas to the three said 

"I guess the Carny ain't gonna show" 

And they were silent for a spell 

wishing they'd done a better job of burying Sorrow 

And 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 the rain it hammered down 

And the rain it hammered down 

And the rain it hammered down 

And no-one saw the Carny go 

No-one saw the Carny go 

No-one saw the Carny go 

I say, it's funny how things go...