[00:12.36]Well, the days are long and the work is hard[00:15.66]When your childhood is spent in the fields[00:19.11]And summer seemed to last million years[00:25.62]One day when I was just a boy[00:28.62]During one of those hot summer swells[00:32.07]The locus was silenced by the playing of bells[00:39.90]And there was the thing for which I longed[00:41.19]A place where I belonged[00:52.20]Where I first held the hand of the one I love[00:59.40]When the circus came to town[01:05.88]We ate candy-cones and corndogs[01:10.68]Cotton candy and candy-canes[01:12.39]And we shared a caramel apple by the arcade[01:19.35]And when night fell and the stars rose[01:22.35]And light bedazzled the fair[01:25.53]We rode the Ferris wheel[01:28.02]Up into the air[01:33.15]And there was the thing for which I longed[01:34.50]A place where I belonged[01:45.75]Where I first held the hand of the one I love[01:52.86]When the circus came to town[01:59.64]And later, in the funhouse,[02:02.79]Our bodies looked so strange[02:06.00]And the mirrors made our faces seemed deranged[02:12.42]And the snake-man in the freak-show[02:15.75]He got you so alarmed[02:18.87]That you ran and ran and ran[02:21.45]Right into my arms[02:23.70]Oh, oh, oh[02:53.19]The next morning I got up[02:55.83]Wrapped my clothes up into a ball[02:59.46]And I ran and ran to run away with the fair[03:05.94]But when I arrived, to my surprise,[03:09.15]All the tents and wagons were gone[03:12.36]And they'd stolen all that happiness from the air[03:20.40]And gone was the thing for which I longed[03:25.86]That place where I belonged[03:31.86]Where I last held the hand of the one I love[03:41.46]When the circus came[03:44.88]When the circus came[03:48.15]When the circus came to town