We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

I Was Joking

from Temptation Once Again by Tommy Keyes

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €1 EUR  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Digisleeve packaging complete with 20-page booklet including full lyrics and credits. Free shipping to Ireland/NI, just €1 per total order to anywhere else.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Temptation Once Again via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 1 day
    Purchasable with gift card

      €10 EUR or more 

     

lyrics

When I was only five years old, the smallest kid in school
I learnt the way to hold my own was just to play the fool
For everyone’s amusement, make everybody smile
And make myself so popular if only for a while
The whole world loves a jester, the whole world loves a clown,
That’s me, I was joking around

You were all I ever wanted, you were all that I could need
And I thought you were so happy to share your life with me
Didn’t mean to undermine you, or make you feel so small
And I never meant to hurt you, I was joking, that was all
The whole world loves a jester, the whole world loves a clown,
That’s me, I was joking around

Now I hope you’re very happy wherever you may be
You’re probably with somebody who’s not a bit like me
This room is full of people... I slowly start to see
Though everyone’s still laughing, now I know the jokes’s on me
The whole world loves a jester, the whole world loves a clown,
That’s me, I was joking around

Though everyone’s still laughing, now I know the joke’s on me

credits

from Temptation Once Again, released November 7, 2018
Tommy Keyes: piano, vocals
Dick Farrelly: guitar
Dave Fleming: double bass
Gerard Farrelly: drums
Richie Buckley: sax
Aisling Bridgeman, Aine Gallagher: violins
Suzanne Anglim: viola
Claire Kinsella: cello
Strings arranged and directed by Rob Molumby
Produced by Tommy Keyes
Engineered and mixed by Michael Heffernan
Mastered by FergalDavisMastering.com

Written by Tommy Keyes
Published by Tommy Keyes Music

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Tommy Keyes image

Tommy Keyes Ireland

After an absence of nearly 40 years, Tommy Keyes returns with a stockpile of great songs that defy categorisation. Rock? Pop? “It’s 1970s singer-songwriter music”, he says, “because that’s what I am.”

contact / help

Contact Tommy Keyes

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Tommy Keyes, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring interviews with LA music scene pillar Kamasi Washington, and new London-based duo Mrcy.

listen now