Lyrics for "Heart of a Clown"?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 16 Nov 1999 7:27 pm

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 · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 16 Nov 1999 10:11 pm

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 · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 17 Nov 1999 4:51 am

Thank you, Herb.

Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 17 Nov 1999 6:23 am

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 · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 17 Nov 1999 7:43 am

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

<font size="3" face="monospace"><pre>
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. </pre></font>

Hope this helps ya.

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Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 17 Nov 1999 9:20 pm

Thanx Herb...

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Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 18 Nov 1999 1:34 pm

Hey who said old Country was just three chords?

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cjc

Billy Johnson · Post by **Billy Johnson** » 18 Nov 1999 1:45 pm

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 · Post by **Howard Kalish** » 19 Nov 1999 12:14 pm

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 · Post by **wayne yakes md** » 30 Nov 1999 11:25 am

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