text: Sundown, sundown
  Theyre taking all the tents down
  Where have you gone my handsome Billy?
  Sundown, sundown
  The carnival trains leaving town
  Where are you now my darling Billy?
  We wont be dancing together on the high wire
  Facing the lions with you at my side anymore
  We wont be breathing the smoke in the fire
  On a midway
  Hanging from the trapeze, my wrists waiting for your wrists
  Two daredevils high upon the wall of death
  You throwing the knife that lands inches from my heart
  Sundown
  Moon rise, moon rise, the light that was in your eyes is gone away
  Daybreak, daybreak, the thing in you that made me ache has gone to stay
  Well be riding the train without you tonight
  The train that keeps on moving
  Its black smoke scorching the evening sky
  A million stars shining above us like every soul living and dead
  Has been gathered together by God to sing a hymn
  Over your bones
  Sundown, sundown
  Theyre taking all the tents down
  Where have you gone my handsome Billy?