See The Funny Little Clown

Album

Single

Label

United Artists Records

Genre

Traditional Pop

Entered Chart

Jan 11, 1964

Peak Date

Mar 14, 1964

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

United Artists 672

B-Side

N/A

November 18, 1963.[2] In 1964, the song spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 9,[3] while reaching No. 3 on Billboard's Middle-Road Singles chart,[4] No. 10 on the Cash Box Top 100,[5] and No. 30 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade.[6] The song was ranked No. 90 on the Cash Box "Top 100 Chart Hits of 1964.

See the funny little clown
See him laughing as you walk by
Everybody thinks he's happy
'Cause you never see a tear in his eye
No one knows he's crying
No one knows he's dying on the inside
'Cause he's laughing on the outside, mmm
No one knows, no one knows
See the funny little clown
He's hiding behind a smile
They all think he's laughing
But I know he's really crying all the while
How his heart is aching
How his heart is breaking on the inside
But he keeps laughing on the outside, mm
No one knows, no one knows
This funny little clown
You never used to see him around
Without his girl beside him
To love and guide him
Until one day his girl just walked away
And to this very day he says
"He never loved her anyway"
Mm, and no one knows except for me
Because you see I'm that funny little clown