Laughing Boy

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[Verso 1]
 
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In all the rooms I've hung my hat, in all the towns I've been 
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It stuns me I'm not dead already from the shambles that I've seen 
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I've seen a girl hold back her hair to light a cigarette 
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And things like that a man like me can't easily forget 
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I've got the only cure for life, and the cure for life is joy 
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I'm a crying man that everyone calls Laughing Boy 
 


[Verso 2]
 
  Dm                                        Gm7 
A kid once asked me in late September for a shilling for the guy 
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And I looked that little operator in her wheeling-dealing eye 
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And I tossed a bob with deep respect in her old man's trilby hat 
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It seems to me that a man like me could die of things like that 
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I've got the only cure for life, and the cure for life is joy 
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I'm a crying man that everyone calls Laughing Boy 
 


[Verso 3]
 
     Dm                                           Gm7 
I've seen landladies who lost their lovers at the time of Rupert Brooke 
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And they pressed the flowers from Sunday rambles and then forgot which book 
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And I paid the rent thinking 'Anyway, buddy, at least you won't get wet' 
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And I tried the bed and lay there thinking 'They haven't got you yet' 
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I've got the only cure for life, and the cure for life is joy 
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I'm a crying man that everyone calls Laughing Boy 
 


[Verso 4]
 
     Dm                                       Gm7 
I've read the labels on a hundred bottles for eyes and lips and hair 
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And I've seen girls breathe on their fingernails and wiggle them in the air 
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And I've often wondered who the hell remembers as far back as last night 
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It seems to me that a man like me is the only one who might 
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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