# The Clown

- Music: Ethel Smyth (died 1944)
- Words: Maurice Baring (died 1945)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6665104

## The words

There was once a poor clown all dressed in white  
And chained to the dungeon bars And he danced  
all day and he danced all night  
To the sound of the dancing stars.  
O clown, silly clown, O why do you dance?  
You know you can never be free You are tied by  
the leg to the strings of chance Yet you dance  
like a captive flea  
My chain is heavy, my cell is dark I know I can  
never be free In my heart, in my heart there's  
a dancing spark And the stars make music for  
me  
O muffle my cell and rivet my chains And  
fetter my feet and my hands My soul is a horse  
of foam without reins That dances on deathless  
sands my soul is a horse of foam that dances on  
deathless sands My soul is a horse of foam  
without reins that dances on deathless sands  
that dances dances on deathless sands  
dances  
on deathless sands  
my soul is a horse of foam without reins That  
dances on deathless sands  
Oh muffle my cell and rivet my chains And  
fetter my feet and my hands.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).