Tears Of A Clown:Smokey Robinson And The Miracles.
#1 in UK and #1 in USA in 1967.

#1.
NC                      C#  F# 
Now, if there's a smile up..on my face,
B    F#         C#        F#       B
It's only there trying to fool the public.
F#                C#
But when it comes down to fooling you,
B    F#           C#            F#     B
Now, honey that's quite a different subject.

#2.
F#    C#     F#          B
Don't let my glad expression,
F#       C#  F#      B
Give you the wrong impression.
    F#         C# F# B          F#
really I'm sad.......Oh, I'm sadder than sad.
C#     F#   B           F#     C#
You're gone and I'm hurting so bad,
F#           B        F#    C#   F# B
Like a clown I appear to be glad.. 

CHORUS: 
F#                Ab                  F
Now, they're some sad things known to man,
          Bbm
but ain't too much sadder than,
F#maj7         C#                               C# F# C#
the tears of a clown, when there's no one around. 

#3.

Now if I appear to be carefree,
It's only to camouflage my sadness. 
And Honey to shield my pride I try,
to cover this hurt with a show of gladness.
But don't let my show convince you, 
that I've been happy since you, decided to go.
I need you so, I'm hurt and I want you to know, 
but for others I put on a show...

CHORUS: 
B       F#            C#   F#   B    C#
Now, if I appear just like Pagliacci did,
C#       F#      B  F#
I try to keep my sadness hid.
    C#         F#     B    F#
Smiling in the public eye, but in my
C#          F#     B         F#   C#
lonely room I cry, the tears of a clown,
                           C# F# C#
when there's no one around.

#4.

Now if there's a smile on my face,
don't let my glad expression,
give you the wrong impression.
Don't let this smile I wear,
make you think that I don't care... 


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