Karaoké Carousel Miranda Lambert

Pretty Elaina

My fair lady

She walked the high wire back in the eighties

Feathers and sequins

She shined like a chandelier

Hangin' from the top tent rafters 'till the spotlight disappeared

Harlan Giovanni

What a sight to see

The way he earned her trust was on a twenty foot trapeze

She fell so hard because he always let her fly

'Till he left her heart suspended in a cotton candy sky

She still don't know why

Every show must end

Every circus leaves town

You don't know the magic's gone until the lights go down

Now she's back in Nacogdoches and I hear she's doing well

She only misses Harlan when she hears a carousel

Pretty Elaina made herself a nest

Her sequins and her secrets buried in her cedar chest

No one around here knows about her other life

Johnny Davis went and made her

A mama and a wife

And maybe that's alright

'Cos every show must end

Every circus leaves town

You don't know the magic's gone until the lights go down

Now she's back in Nacogdoches and I hear she's doing well

She only misses Harlan when she hears a carousel

Smith County Fair

Mid-September

She walks the midway and smiles when she remembers

Every show must end

Every circus leaves town

I didn't know the magic left 'till all the lights went down

Now I'm back in Nacogdoches and I swear I'm doing well

I only miss my Harlan when I hear a carousel

I only miss my Harlan when I hear the carousel