Mr. Homburg Hat - Harvey Andrews

Hey Mister Homburg Hat and Astrakhan

Whatever happened to the funny man

You carried deep inside?

But when the laughter died

He turned and ran

We saw you in the spotlight, saw you on the screen

A Punch and Judy man who might have been

And everybody knew

The loser there was you

You wrote the scene

And when we laughed, you cried

And when we sat in silence, you tried

All you knew

But when we came to say

That we’d really like to see you play

Because we love you

We love you

You only turned and took the bottle down

It served to help you through another town

And then the papers said

That «All the laughs were dead

Another broken clown»

Now there’s no more homburg hat and astrakhan

Just empty places on the seating plan

But now they flock to say

«The greatest of his day

That funny man, how sad he ran»