Chords for Bee Gees - I Started A Joke - StorryTeller

Tempo:
129.3 bpm
Chords used:

D

G

C

Bm

Em

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Bee Gees - I Started A Joke - StorryTeller chords
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This song now you may know more about this song than any of us do because it was really your idea you came to
The studio with I started a joke.
Oh, yeah, this is actually a melody that was
On a Viscount jet sort of heard the melody in the engines.
Oh, yeah
It's interesting the lyrics are not conventional, but well, I think we've often been approached on that song in the past
But I think that mainly people said that they felt the song was about religion and
I'm not sure what Robin meant by it.
Neither am I
But we all helped out in the bridge, but it's mainly Robin song and it's called I started a joke
[D] [C]
[D] [G]
[D] [C]
[D] [G]
[D] I started a joke
[C]
Which [D] started the whole [G] world [D] crying
[C]
[D] But I [G] didn't [D] say
[C] That [D] the joke [G] was on [D] me
Oh
[C]
I [D] [G]
[D] [Bm] started to cry
[C]
Which [D] started the whole [G] world [D] laughing?
[C] Oh
[D] If I [G] only [D] see
[C]
[D] That the joke [G] was on me
[Em]
[Bm]
Running [C]
my hands [D] over [G] my eyes
[Bm] And I fell out [Em] of bed
Hurting [Am] my head from things that [D] I said
[G] So I [D] finally died
[C] Which started [D] the whole [G] world?
[Bm] living
[C] [D] Oh if I [G] don't we see
[D]
[C] [D] That the joke [G] was on me
[Em] Oh
[Bm]
Running [C] my hands over [G] my eyes
[Bm] and I
fell [Em] out of bed
Hurting my [Am] head from things that [D] I said
So [G] I [D] finally died
[C] Which started [D] the whole [G] world?
[D] living
[C]
[D] Oh if I [G] don't we [Bm] see
[C]
That [D] the joke [G] was on [D] me
That [C]
[D] the joke [G] was on me
[Bm] [C] [D]
[G] [Bm]
[C] [D]
[G]
[Gm]
[D] [Eb]
Key:  
D
1321
G
2131
C
3211
Bm
13421112
Em
121
D
1321
G
2131
C
3211
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To learn Bee Gees - To Love Somebody chords, focus on the sequence of these chords: Bm, C, D, G, D, C, G and C. Kick off your practice at a gentle 86 BPM, then escalate to the song's tempo of 172 BPM. With Gb Major as the song's key, tweak the capo to cater to your vocal pitch and chord likes.

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This song now you may know more about this song than any of us do because it was really your idea you came to
The studio with I started a joke.
Oh, yeah, this is actually a melody that was _ _ _ _ _
_ On a Viscount jet sort of heard the melody in the engines.
Oh, yeah
_ It's interesting the lyrics are not conventional, but well, I think we've often been approached on that song in the past _
_ _ _ _ _
But I think that mainly people said that they felt the song was about religion and _
I'm not sure what Robin meant by it.
Neither am I _
_ _ But we all helped out in the bridge, but it's mainly Robin song and it's called I started a joke _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
[D] I started a joke
[C] _
Which [D] started the whole [G] world [D] crying
_ _ [C] _ _
[D] But I [G] didn't [D] say
_ _ [C] That _ [D] the joke [G] was on [D] me
_ Oh
[C] _
I [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[D] [Bm] started to cry
[C] _
Which [D] started the whole [G] world [D] _ laughing?
_ [C] _ Oh
[D] If I [G] only [D] see
_ _ [C] _ _
[D] That the joke [G] was on me
_ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ Running _ [C]
my _ hands [D] over [G] my eyes _
[Bm] And I fell out [Em] of bed
_ _ Hurting [Am] my head from things that [D] I said _ _
[G] So I [D] finally died
[C] _ Which started [D] the whole [G] world?
_ [Bm] living _
_ [C] _ _ [D] Oh if I [G] don't we see
[D] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] That the joke [G] was on me _
_ _ [Em] Oh _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
Running [C] my _ hands over [G] my eyes
_ _ [Bm] and I
fell [Em] out of bed _
_ Hurting my [Am] head from things that [D] I said
_ _ So [G] I [D] finally died
_ [C] Which started [D] the whole [G] world?
[D] _ living
_ [C] _ _
[D] Oh if I [G] don't we [Bm] see
_ _ [C] _ _
That [D] the joke [G] was on [D] me
_ That [C] _
_ [D] the joke [G] was on me
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _

Facts about this song

This track, written by Robin Gibb and Barry Gibb, is part of the album Transmission Impossible.

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