There was a time the laughing time. I took my heart to every party. They'd point my way. "How are you today?". "Will you make us laugh? Chase our blues away?". Their funny man won't let them down. No he'd dance and prance and be their clown. That time the laughing time. When even a fool learns to love. The clown turned around. And saw her smile Oh how she loved me. She'd clap her hands and beg me stay. To make her laugh to make her life gay. Who wants the love of all the world. When here was love in the eyes of just one girl. That day that precious day. When even a fool learns to love. But Oh how I dreamed a marvelous dream. Where all of the heavens or so it had seemed. With thunderous applause looked down from above. On a clown and an angel so much in love. I'll stay with my dream it takes such a dream. And even a fool learns to love. That day that hateful day. The joke turned stale the game was over. Those spiteful words "Oh go away. Who wants to play?". "It's getting late now.". My world my funny world. Had lost its mask and shown a broken heart. A time a sour time. When even a fool learns to love. But Oh how I dreamed a marvelous dream. Where all of the heavens or so it had seemed. With thunderous applause looked down from above. On a clown and an angel so much in love. I'll stay with my dream it takes such a dream.