I haven't found a link; but I recall a song (maybe not the one you had in mind) with a similar line. It may have been a flip side to a Del Shannon single. Some of the lyrics were:

Goodbye cruel world, I'm off to join the circus
Say, Mr. Barnum, (won't you) save a place for me?
Shoot me out of a canon; I don't care.
Let the people point at me and stare.
I'll tell the world that woman,
Wherever she may be,
That mean fickle woman
Made a flying clown out of me.