[E] [A] [D] [G] [B] [E]
A7+: x 0 2 0 2 1
Verse 1
[Dm] [Gm7]
In all the rooms I've hung my hat, in all the towns I've been
[Dm] [Gm7] [A7+]
It stuns me I'm not dead already from the shambles that I've seen
[Gm] [Bb] [Eb] [A7+]
I've seen a girl hold back her hair to light a cigarette
[Dm] [F] [Bb] [A7+]
And things like that a man like me can't easily forget
[F] [Dm] [Bb] [A7+]
I've got the only cure for life, and the cure for life is joy
[Gm9] [A7+] [D]
I'm a crying man that everyone calls Laughing Boy
Verse 2
[Dm] [Gm7]
A kid once asked me in late September for a shilling for the guy
[Dm] [Gm7] [A7+]
And I looked that little operator in her wheeling-dealing eye
[Gm] [Bb] [Eb] [A7+]
And I tossed a bob with deep respect in her old man's trilby hat
[Dm] [F] [Bb] [A7+]
It seems to me that a man like me could die of things like that
[F] [Dm] [Bb] [A7+]
I've got the only cure for life, and the cure for life is joy
[Gm9] [A7+] [D]
I'm a crying man that everyone calls Laughing Boy
Verse 3
[Dm] [Gm7]
I've seen landladies who lost their lovers at the time of Rupert Brooke
[Dm] [Gm7] [A7+]
And they pressed the flowers from Sunday rambles and then forgot which book
[Gm] [Bb] [Eb] [A7+]
And I paid the rent thinking 'Anyway, buddy, at least you won't get wet'
[Dm] [F] [Bb] [A7+]
And I tried the bed and lay there thinking 'They haven't got you yet'
[F] [Dm] [Bb] [A7+]
I've got the only cure for life, and the cure for life is joy
[Gm9] [A7+] [D]
I'm a crying man that everyone calls Laughing Boy
Verse 4
[Dm] [Gm7]
I've read the labels on a hundred bottles for eyes and lips and hair
[Dm] [Gm7] [A7+]
And I've seen girls breathe on their fingernails and wiggle them in the air
[Gm] [Bb] [Eb] [A7+]
And I've often wondered who the hell remembers as far back as last night
[Dm] [F] [Bb] [A7+]
It seems to me that a man like me is the only one who might
[F] [Dm] [Bb] [A7+]
I've got the only cure for life, and the cure for life is joy
[Gm9] [A7+] [D]
I'm a crying man that everyone calls Laughing Boy
