Key: Bb major
Verse 1
Bb
Though the world is so full of a number things,
I know we should all be as
happy as
But are we?
Decidedly no. Mm mm.
Short people have long faces and
Long people have short faces.
Big people have little humor
And little people have no humor at all!
And in the words
of that immortal buddy
Samuel J. Snodgrass,
as he was about to be lead
Verse 2
To the guillotine:
Bb
Make 'em laugh
Make 'em laugh
Don't you know everyone
wants to laugh?
(Ha ha!)
My dad said "Be an actor, my son
Ab
Cm
F
Adim
F
But be a comical one
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Eb
They'll be standing in lines
For those old honky tonk
Verse 3
Ab
Adim
Just slip on a banana peel
Cm
F
Make 'em laugh
Verse 4
Eb
Make 'em laugh
Don't you know everyone wants to laugh
out and tell 'em a joke
Eb
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Cm
F
But give it plenty of hoke
Verse 5
Eb
roar
Make 'em scream
Take a fall
But a wall
Verse 6
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Adim
You start off by pretending
Adim
Eb
Giggling all over the place
Adim
Eb
custard pie in the face
F
Bb
Make 'em laugh
Eb
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Eb
Make 'em laugh
Verse 7
Make 'em laugh
Ab
Bb
Don't you know... all the... wants.?
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Cm
F
My dad...
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Eb
They'll be standing in lines
Interlude 1
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines
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Verse 8
Make 'em laugh
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Ah ha
Verse 9
ha ha ha ha há
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Ah ha ha ha ha ha
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ha ha ha
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Make 'em laugh, ah ah!
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Make 'em laugh, ah ah!
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Make 'em laugh, ah ah!
Verse 10
G
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb Eb Ab Cm F...
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