I Started A Joke
Composer(s): Robin Gibb; Barry Alan Gibb; Maurice Ernest Gibb
First release by: Bee Gees - 1968
Covered by multiple other artists



I started a joke, which started the whole world crying
but I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no

I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing
oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes
and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said

Til I finally died, which started the whole world living
oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was on me

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes
and I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said

'Til I finally died, which started the whole world living
oh, if I'd only seen that the joke was one me