Laughing but Crying

Oh, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Ha-ha-ha-ha

You're gone, and left with my best friend

Well, I don't worry, honey

I'm glad you're gone

I'm laughing on the outside

Ha-ha-ha-ha, do you hear me, baby? Ha-ha-ha-ha

Yes, I'm laughing on the outside

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Babe, I'm just laughing all the while

I'm laughing on the outside

But crying on the inside day by day

Ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Brought my buddy in my home

Told you to treat him like a king

But baby, when my back was turned

You gave him all, everything, oh, oh

I'll tell the world what a fool I was

Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha

I tried to give my best friend a home

Now he's in store, the woman I love and gone

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Yeah, honey, I'm laughing

Ha-ha-ha-ha

I'm laughing on the outside

Listen, do you remember?

I found you wandering around on a cold, cold night

In the streets, baby

Why, you didn't have clothes to wear

You didn't even have money to buy food

Nowhere to lay your pretty head

I took you in, remember?

I took you in and gave you a place to stay

Money in your pocketbook, clothes to wear

And now you're gone, deserted me

And left with the best friend I had in the world

What a laugh, ha-ha-ha

What a laugh, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

Oh, love is just a gamble

I played a losing hand

Now I lost all your loving, baby

To some other man, oh, oh

But I, I hope and pray there will come a time

Ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

I hope he'll break your heart, baby

Oh, just as you broke mine

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho

I'm laughing on the outside, ha-ha-ha-ha

Oh, laughing on the outside, ha-ha