See The Funny Little Clown:Bobby Goldsboro.
#9 in 1964.
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#1.
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See the funny little clown, see him laughing 
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as you walk by.
D    Bm               D               Bm
Everybody thinks he's happy cause you never 
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see a tear in his eye.
G                 Gm       Gm7
No one knows he's crying...no one knows he's 
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dying on the inside.
G                          D        D7
Cause he's laughing on the outside, mmmm..
G      A       G      D
No one knows...no one knows.

#2.
D       Bm           D           Bm       D
See the funny little clown, he's hiding behind 
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A smile.
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They all think he's laughing but I know he's 
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really crying all the while.
G                        Gm               Gm7
How his heart is aching, how his heart is breaking 
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on the inside...but he keeps laughing on the outside, mmmm..
G      A      G      D
No one knows, no one knows.

CHORUS:
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This funny little clown, you never used to see him around,
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without his girl beside him, to love and guide him.
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Until one day his girl just walked away, and to this very day..
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he says he never loved her anyway.
D7        G              A   F#m         Bm
Mmmm, and no one knows...ex..cept for me..
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because, you see, I'm that funny little clown.

OUTRO:
D       Bm           D
See the funny little clown.


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