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Dec 14, 2024

I Started A Joke by The Bee Gees

Tab: in word document format video: Bee Gees - I Started A Joke (Live in Las Vegas, 1997 - One Night Only)

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Tabbed by: Mike Nachaj :: mike@mikemusicbox.com

Song: I Started A Joke
By:   The Bee Gees

[intro: ]  |G  |Bm  |C  |D   |
           |G  |Bm  |C  |D   |
  
[verse: 1]
|G           |Bm     |C                  |D          |
 I started a joke      which started the whole world 
|G           |Bm     |C       |D          |
 crying                    but I   didn't
|G           |Bm     |C            |D          |
 see                      that the joke was on                  
|G           |Bm     |C            |D          |
 me             oh___ no____
 
[verse: 2]
|G           |Bm     |C                  |D          |
 I started to cry      which started the whole world 
|G           |Bm     |C         |D          |
 laughing                oh, if I'd    only 
|G           |Bm     |C            |D          |
 seen                      that the joke was on                  
|G       |        |
 me_______  
 
[chorus:]
|Em     |             |Bm       |            |C                 |G      |
 I______ looked at the skies____  running my hands____  over my eyes____ 
|G       |Bm            |Em       |Em/D       |Am       |             |D      |
     And  I fell out of bed        hurting my head from things that I said

 
[verse: 3]
    |G        |Bm     |C                    |D          |
Till I finally died       Which started the whole world 
|G           |Bm     |C         |D          |
 living                  oh, if I'd    only             
|G           |Bm     |C            |D          |
 seen                      that the joke was on   
|G       |        |
 me_______  
 

[chorus:]
|Em     |             |Bm       |            |C                 |G      |
 I______ looked at the skies____  running my hands____  over my eyes____ 
|G       |Bm            |Em       |Em/D       |Am       |             |D      |
     And  I fell out of bed        hurting my head from things that I said
 
[verse: 4]
    |G        |Bm     |C                    |D          |
Till I finally died       which started the whole world 
|G           |Bm     |C         |D          |
 living                  oh, if I'd    only    
|G           |Bm     |C            |D          |
 seen                      that the joke was on            
|G           |Bm     |C                |D          |
 me             oh___ no____  that the joke was on 
 
[coda:]
|G           |Bm     |C            |D          |
 me_______________________________________     
|G           |Bm     |C            |D          |G    |G    |
oh_______________________________________     



chords:


Am      002210
Bm      224432
C       032010
D       000232   
Em      022000
Em/D    xx0000
G       320003