tabs for I Started a Joke
(original version by the Bee Jees, The Wallflowers' version appears on the
Zoolander Soundtrack, track #5)
tab submitted by Ian:
"I Started A Joke"
Capo 2nd fret
Intro:
E Bm F#m Am
E Bm F#m Am
E Bm
F#m
I started a joke,
Am
E
Bm F#m
which started the whole world crying,
Am E
Bm F#m
but I didn't see
Am
E
Bm
that the joke was on me,
F#m Am
oh no.
E G#m
A
I started to cry,
B
E
G#m
A
which started the whole world laughing,
B
E
G#m A
oh, if I'd only seen
B
E
that the joke was on me.
C#m
G#m
A
E
I, I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
G#m
C#m
A
E
B
and I, I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said.
E Bm
F#m
Til I finally died,
Am
E
Bm F#m
which started the whole world living,
Am
E G#m
A
oh, if I'd only seen
B
E
that the joke was on me.
C#m
G#m
A
E
I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes,
G#m
C#m
A
E
B
and I, I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said.
E Bm
F#m
'Til I finally died,
Am
E
Bm F#m
which started the whole world living
Am
E G#m
A
oh, if I'd only seen
B
E
G#m A
that the joke was on me
B
E
G#m A
that the joke was on me
B
E
Bm F#m Am
E
that the joke was on me