Susan Boyle - Send In The Clowns Lyrics

She has such a fantastic voice. Such a talent.

There's only one true version of this and that's the original by Glynis Johns

It gives me anxiety when people hold out the note on the first “rich”

the most beautiful version - pure, gentle and yet powerful

my hero

Magnifique

who’s here because of joker ? 🃏

I always loved the video by the Muppets , with Judy Collins . This video has lovey photos but where are the clowns ? Oh well at lest the song is being sung buy a women with the voice of an Angel !

So nice!

Beautiful.
My grandfather used to play this song on his record player. So many memories. Its an instant cry though, its just so beautiful. Susan did a great job.

Beautiful Autumn video_TO: a Beautifully Sung rendition of Song...*THE BEST.¥
Thank you...Susan.

She is so amazing so perfect like a Angel, love this song , congratulations Susan, we'll done my dear.

She is total amazing god bless her

Susan Boyle has the most perfect singing voice on the planet.

My mom loved this song. From the time I was little, she would have me practice it on the piano. She also loved Susan Boyle. She would've adored this.

No doubt she does....

@T Clark Thank you, T. ❤

Absolutely beautiful 👍❤️👍

Her voice is so astounding and moving. She has a gift.

beautiful sung what a beautiful voice

Susan Boyle sings this so beautifully it makes the hairs on my neck stand up. It's so clearly sung word by word. Nice work Susan.

Beautiful song beautiful voice. Negative people have to tear even the most beautiful things apart

where is there negative comment?

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beautiful song and the video scenery is too. happy new year 2019 everyone here.

Dedicated to Bill.. think this happened to us...I don't know.

Very, very beautiful.

her awsome voice makes this the best rendition of "send in the clowns " i have ever heard

Thanks,,very beautiful version!!!!miss you Susan,,u really showed them !!

Beautiful

Y'all Dick heads she song it good

Susan, your limiting feelings are restraining you a lot. Your voice is beautiful, but your art is gone. Sorry to say that.

The rewritten lyrics was done by none other than the maestro himself, Sondheim. The genesis goes like this: when Streisand started to prepare a new album of Broadway show tunes in the mid-eighties, not coincidentally, Sondheim was given top priority. It isn't difficult to understand why as when Streisand first tried her luck on Broadway in the late fifties, three of her mentors, among many others, were Bernstein, Laurents and Sondheim. As we all know, the trio, along with the equally legendary Robbins, was responsible for the monumental success of the Broadway musical, West Side Story. This trio was not just the most creative intellectuals in the great white way but also in American history. Naturally, Streisand was inspired as much as she was intimidated by this trio, by their the-sky-the-limit creativity, their enormous grasp of everything about art. But, she put off recording the Sondheim songbook after she became a huge star, thinking that she wasn't sophisticated enough to decipher the meaning that lay beneath the melody and lyrics of Sondheim. However, after directing the movie Yentl, she thought she was ready, thus the album "THE BROADWAY ALBUM". At first, Streisand didn't want to sing Send In The Clowns, knowing full well that the warhorse had been recorded to death by tons of traditional song stylists, including heavyweights like Sinatra and Collins, who made it a huge radio single hit. Nevertheless, Streisand also understood that Send In The Clowns remained the most commercially viable song in the Sondheim canon, the majority of which comprised of esoteric cockamamie compositions, save for Broadway queens, even ardent music lovers could not easily sing along. In a stroke of genius, Sondheim came up with a solution that pleased Streisand no end: he agreed to revise the song to make it more accessible since Streisand had told him earlier that when the song was sung out of context it was unfathomable. Thus, the rewritten lyric premiered by Broadway's finest female singing artist. It's great honor for both parties.

mannail888 thank you!

Wow, thankyou. Extraordinary to think that Streisand was unnerved by it until Yentl. Susan's version is amazing. One of her best. But I'm bawling my eyes out; what she was expressing through her emotions and voice hit me on a soul level. It had been 5 years since listening to it and I didn't understand my reaction. Until I really listened to the lyrics, which I can't believe I'd never really bothered to before, or to understand. Susan does. It hit me so deeply, her voice, every nuance of her emotions, and I now know why.

Superba voce!

Beautiful rendition. You have such a pure voice.

Frumoasă interpretare.

Missing the irony of the song entirely. Written lyrics did not match song being sung. Slides of nature, fall, little girl had NOTHING TO DO with this song! Terrible.

Wot a prick

What a lovely voice. Perfect tone I love it.

Angel voice!

This is, was and will always be Judy Collins song....Any other rendition is mediocre at best.

Comme d'habitude la chanson est accompagnée par de superbes vues.bravo pour le travail effectué 👍👍👍👍👍

Très belle interprétation de cette chanson chantée avec délicatesse et pourtant revisitee par de nombreuses grandes voix,pari reussi bravo susan !!

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here, at last, on the ground
You in mid-air
Send in the clowns
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around
One who can't move
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns
Just when I'd stopped opening doors
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines
No one is there
Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want
Sorry, my dear
But where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns
Quick, send in the clowns
What a surprise!
Who could foresee?
I'd come to feel about you
What you felt about me
Why only now, when I see
That you've drifted away?
What a surprise
What a cliche
Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late in my career
And where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns
Don't bother
They're here

I didn't know this song had that one part where it says "who could have foreseen..." and then ends with "what a cliche". I've only heard it the other way. Thank you so much for posting ALL of the words! God bless!

I wish I knew what it meant.

Well done. Different than Judy Collins on purpose. Different than Streisand. Enjoy it for what it is.

This cuts deep

Beautiful!!

Sorry, but with lyrics filled with such depth and complexities, the overall meaning of the song is completely blank when it's just song like this. Her cover of Bring him Home is much better.

Lovely...

Love <3 she did a Beautiful with this....

Bien chanté avec une voix parfaitement tenue mais... sans étincelle ! En comparaison, l'interprétation de Dame Judi DENCH lors des PROMS 2010 est bouleversante et d'une incroyable mélancolie.

Marguerite Portalier superbement chanté par Suzan mais par contre l'interprétation de Glenn Close est plus émouvante que celle de dame Judy bravo à toutes

Trop mélancolique la version de Dame Judi Dench . Je préfère susan et surtout la version avec Barbra Streisand. Mais bravo à toutes.

BeYOUtiful!

You are so absolutely right Alan

Straight to the heart and soul

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Whilst I have no complaint about Ms Boyle's voice, the depth and meaning of the words are lost here (noting also the awful rewritten lyrics). For instance the line "Don't you love farce" has none of the intended irony. The song was written for Glynis Johns who had a limited vocal register and is almost spoken - it is not served well when it is "sung". Vocal beauty is not what is required rather the voice of an actor delivering lines giving full expression to the meaning of the text.

Alan Mundy get a life and a job

The rewritten lyrics was done by none other than the maestro himself, Sondheim. The genesis goes like this: when Streisand started to prepare a new album of Broadway show tunes in the mid-eighties, not coincidentally, Sondheim was given top priority. It isn't difficult to understand why as when Streisand first tried her luck on Broadway in the late fifties, three of her mentors, among many others, were Bernstein, Laurents and Sondheim. As we all know, the trio, along with the equally legendary Robbins, was responsible for the monumental success of the Broadway musical, West Side Story. This trio was not just the most creative intellectuals in the great white way but also in American history. Naturally, Streisand was inspired as much as she was intimidated by this trio, by their the-sky-the-limit creativity, their enormous grasp of everything about art. But, she put off recording the Sondheim songbook after she became a huge star, thinking that she wasn't sophisticated enough to decipher the meaning that lay beneath the melody and lyrics of Sondheim. However, after directing the movie Yentl, she thought she was ready, thus the album "THE BROADWAY ALBUM". At first, Streisand didn't want to sing Send In The Clowns, knowing full well that the warhorse had been recorded to death by tons of traditional song stylists, including heavyweights like Sinatra and Collins, who made it a huge radio single hit.

Nevertheless, Streisand also understood that Send In The Clowns remained the most commercially viable song in the Sondheim canon, the majority of which comprised of esoteric cockamamie compositions, save for Broadway queens, even ardent music lovers could not easily sing along. In a stroke of genius, Sondheim came up with a solution that pleased Streisand no end: he agreed to revise the song to make it more accessible since Streisand had told him earlier that when the song was sung out of context it was unfathomable. Thus, the rewritten lyric premiered by Broadway's finest female singing artist. It's great honor for both parties.

Songs are meant to be sung. The artist, if they can, brings the words to life and gives them meaning.

@Renee Thank you and yes that line you refer to is heart rending when sung with the full force of its meaning. I think Glenn Close sang the best rendition of this song. The preceding line of "Don't you love farce" is conveyed with self-understanding. Sadly Ms Boyle sings the words sweetly , in almost abstract way, with no real feeling for the words. I almost fail to hear the line as she sings it. I saw Judi Dench in A Little Night Music at the National Theatre 25 years ago. Whilst I liked her performance, I thought her rendition of this song a little too bitter.

Fabulous performance!

That goes right through your soul man!

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