Don't Let the World Get You Down

Jim Savarino © 2001

In a run down hospital in Wheeling West Virginia
I was born one early Autumn day			
Spied by a visitor who always wanted children	
She walked in and carried me away

My parents sure were excited
When they came for me and found that I was gone	
Though my father was secretly delighted
It didn't show, he never did let on

The hospital staff they were sorry
But you know these things happen now and then
Make the best of a bad situation
Make another baby, come back again

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	Don't let the world get  you down
	Put on a happy face, throw away that frown
	Cut it all loose and paint the town		
	Don't let the world get you down

My childhood turned out pretty normal	
My new mom always did her best you know	
Yes I grew up in the circus				
Movin' town to town with every show	

I learned to be a little clown			
With a smile painted over my perpetual frown	
But the audience never noticed			
They just laughed at my buttons and gown

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Seven years later we played Wheeling
When a face in the crowd stopped me cold
I stared in the eyes of my father
He looked like I would look when I was old

He said "Hey, could you be my lost descendent?
That child of mine was gone since he was born?
So many years I've wasted
Lookin' for my rose among the thorns."

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My dad and I we bought a trailer
Dragged it out to Big Wheeling Creek
Most days we sit there fishin'	
Helps us to think before we speak

And I know my dad is getting older
That's ok, I'm getting older too
My life has come full circle
There's nothin' left that I'm supposed to do

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