Year: 1968 - Album: Their Greatest Hits
Written by Barry Gibb-Robin Gibb-Maurice Gibb
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I started a joke, which started the whole
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world crying.
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But I didn't see that the joke was on me. Oh,
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o o o no o.
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I started to cry, which started the whole
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world laughing.
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Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.
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I looked at the skies, running my hands over
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my eyes. And
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I fell out of bed, hurting my head from
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things that I said. Till
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I finally died, which started the whole
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world living.
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Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.
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I looked at the skies, running my hands over
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my eyes. And
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I fell out of bed, hurting my head from
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things that I said. Till
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I finally died, which started the whole
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world living.
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Oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me.
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Oo oh,
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
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n o o o o.
