Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown

Originally in C#, I play in E

Vox mostly on the 5 and 6

Intro

E	E	E7	E
E	E	E7	E

Vox on 2 2 1 6 5 on “oh oh yeah yeah-eah”

E	A	D	A	E	A	D	A
			Oh, yeah,	yeah yeah,		now,	if there’s a

Vox on the 5 on “smile” (and most of the song)

E	A	D	A
Smile u	pon my	face,	it’s only

E	A	D	A
There trying to	fool the	public,	but when it

E	A	D	A
Comes down to	fooling	you,	now, honey

E	A	D	A
That’s quite a	different	subject

	E	A	D	A
But don’t	let my	glad ex	pression

	E	A	D	A
Give	you the	wrong im	pression,	really

	E	A	D	A
I’m	sad,		oh s	adder than

E	A	D	A
Sad,	you’re	gone, and I’m	hurting so

E	A	D	A
Bad,	like a c	lown I pre	tend to be

	E	A	D	A
G	lad

Vox still on the 5 of the key (now the 1 of the chord on “sad”, up to the b6 on “man”

	B	G#7/C
Now, there’s some	sad things known to	man

Let ring on “than”

	C#m	Amaj7
But ain’t	too much sadder	than the tears of a

Quiet, vox back on the 5 on “clown”

E	E
Clown when there’s no one a	round, mm mm

E	A	D	A	E	A	D	A
			Oh, yeah,	baby,		now,	if

	E	A	D	A
I ap	pear to	be care-	free, it’s	only

	E	A	D	A
To	camou	flage my	sadness, in	order

	E	A	D	A
To	shield my	pride I’ve	tried, to	cover

	E	A	D	A
This	hurt with a	show of	gladness

	E	A	D	A
But don’t	let my	show con	vince you

	E	A	D	A
That	I’ve been	happy	since you, de	cided

	E	A	D	A
To	go		oh, I	need you

E	A	D	A
So,	I’m	hurt, and I	want you to

E	A	D	A
Know,	but for	others I	put on a

	E	A	D	A
S	how,		ooh,	whoa

	B	G#7/C
Now, there’s some	sad things known to	man

	C#m	Amaj7
But ain’t	too much sadder	than the tears of a

Quiet

E	E
Clown when there’s no one a	round, mm mm

E	A	D	A
Just	like Pagli	acci	did

E	A	D	A
I try to	keep my	sadness	hid

E	A	D	A
Smiling in the	public	eye

	E	A	D	A
But in my l	onely	room I	cry the t	ears of a

Quiet

E	E
Clown when there’s no one a	round

E	A	D	A	E	A	D	A
			Oh, yeah,	baby,		now,	if there’s

	E	A	D	A
A	smile u	pon my	face

	E	A	D
Don’t	let my	glad ex	pression

A	E	A	D	A
Give	you the	wrong im	pression

	E	A	D	A
Don’t	let this	smile I	wear

	E	A	D	A
Make	you think that	I don’t	care, when	really

	E	A	D	A
I’m	sad			hurting so

E	A	D	A
Bad