Bee Gees

I Started A Joke (Ver.3)

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I Started A Joke (Ver.3)

Year: 1968 - Album: Their Greatest Hits

Written by Barry Gibb-Robin Gibb-Maurice Gibb

	  		Intro:

	(acoustic guitar (open D) w/bass):

	 D
	 v   v   v   v
	---------7-5-4---
	---------------7-
	-----------------
	-----------------

	G        Bm       C        D          2X
	/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

Verse 1:

	G            Bm
	I started a joke
	  C                 D          G      Bm   C
	Which started the whole world crying
	    D         G   Bm   C
	But I didn't see
	          D   (1, 4: G  Bm  C  D ; 2, 3: G)
	That the joke was on me, oh no

Verse 2:

	I started to cry
	Which started the whole world laughing
	Oh, if I'd only seen
	That the joke was on me

Chorus:

	Em               Bm
	I looked at the skies
	             C            G
	Running my hands over my eyes
	    Bm            Em  
	And I fell out of bed
	 /D         Am
	Hurting my head
	                      D     N.C.
	From things that I'd said

Verse 3:

	'Til I finally died
	Which started the whole world living
	Oh, if I'd only seen (4: oh, yeah)
	That the joke was on me

repeat chorus

repeat verse 3

Coda:

	         (D)         G   Bm  C  D 
	That the joke was on me
	G   Bm   C   D    G (end cold)
	Oh...
		  

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