Now, the first time I ever heard this song I was really young - someone was playing it in their house with their windows open and I heard it and went to my mum and told her I'd just heard a lovely song, and I tried singing it. Oh that's Cathy's Clown, she says. What? I says, clown??? So for years after when I heard this song, I always imagined a girl called Cathy dragging this big life-sized white-faced clown doll thing around with her everywhere she went. Oh the age of innocence ... and overly-active imaginations.