Lyrics for "Heart of a Clown"?

Jim Cohen · From: Philadelphia, PA

Can anyone please provide the lyrics to this Wade Ray tune? By the way, who wrote it? Ray?
I've tried the Cowpie website but they don't have it there.
Thx,
jc

Herb Steiner · From: Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064

If I had the heart of a clown
I'd laugh every time you make me blue.
If I had the heart of a clown
You wouldn't make me cry the way you do.

I'd paint a smile upon my face
Each time you hurt me so.
My arms would long for your embrace
But you would never know.

I'd sing as my dream
World tumbled down
If I had the heart of a clown, whoa oh oh oh
If I had the heart of a clown.

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Jim Cohen · From: Philadelphia, PA

Thank you, Herb.

Kenny Dail · From: Kinston, N.C. R.I.P.

We have a singer in a group I sometimes work with and he asked me to learn the music. I have the last Swing Shift CD that Buddy & Ray did "Going Out Swinging" and Curtis Potter does a bang up job vocally but I'm told that Wade Ray's original version used a different chord structure. Can anyone, maybe Herb, give me the changes Wade used?

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kd...and the beat goes on...

Herb Steiner · From: Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064

Wade's chords? Hmmm.... Let's see if I can get this thing up for you:



   C         F/F#dim     C     Dm7  Em7  Ebm7


If I had the heart    of a clown


     Dm7         G7             Em   A7 Dm G7


I'd laugh every time you made me blue


   C         F            C   B7  Bb7  A7


If I had the heart of a clown


    D7                               G7


You wouldn't make me cry the way you do.





   Gm7            C7


I'd paint a smile upon my face


    F                    F  E7  Eb7  D7


Each time you hurt me so,


    Am7                D7


My arms would long for your embrace


    Dm7             G7


But you would never know.





   C          F/F#dim  C      Bb7   A7


I'd sing as my dream world tumbled down


    D7       G7         C      B     Bb7  A7


If I had the heart of a clown, whoa oh oh oh


    D7       G7         C


If I had the heart of a clown.

Hope this helps ya.

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Kenny Dail · From: Kinston, N.C. R.I.P.

Thanx Herb...

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kd...and the beat goes on...

Joe Casey · From: Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)

Hey who said old Country was just three chords?

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cjc

Billy Johnson · From: Nashville, Tn, USA

Kenny, check out Sammy Smiths cut. More ballad, less swing, but still a great cut.Its on the flip side of My Window Faces the South. Billy

Howard Kalish · From: Austin, Tx USA

Herb - Thanks for the lovely changes. You put Wade Ray's version on a tape for me years ago. I believe Emmons played the jazzy intro and obligato. Wade Ray was a phenomenal talent. I stole one of his signature licks and still use it.

wayne yakes md · From: denver, colorado

"Heart of a Clown" was recorded on "The Terrific Texas Troubadors" album @ 1967 with Buddy Charleton on steel and Wade

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