"Farewell to the Fairground" is a song by London-based indie rock band White Lies.

The band recorded a video for the track with director Andreas Nilsson, filmed in Nikel, Russia.

"Farewell to the Fairground" was recorded along with nine other tracks in Brussels' ICP Studios between May and September 2008.

In a track-by-track review of their debut album for NME, the band stated that it was one of a number of songs which were written particularly quickly during the recording process, as they had only recorded demo versions of five tracks prior to signing to Fiction and entering the studio.

The single featured the band's cover version of Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" as a B-side.