Biography:
Bobby Goldsboro (born 18 January 1941) is an American country music singer and composer. He was born in Marianna, Florida. When he was a teenager his family moved to Dothan, Alabama.
He left Auburn University after his second year to pursue a musical career. After three years playing guitar for Roy Orbison, he set out on a solo career in 1964. He soon had a Top Ten hit with his own composition "See the Funny Little Clown."
Other Top 40 hits from the 1960s include:
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Other songs:
- And I Love You So
- Autumn Of My Life
- Blue Autumn
- Butterfly For Bucky
- Go Away Little Girl
- Honey
- If Youve Got A Heart
- Im A Drifter
- Its Too Late
- Jean
- Little Things
- Me And Millie
- Me And The Elephants
- Me Japanese Boy I Love You
- Molly
- See The Funny Little Clown
- Summer The First Time
- The Straight Life
- These Are The Best Times
- Voodoo Woman
- Watching Scotty Grow
- With Pen In Hand
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See The Funny Little Clown:Bobby Goldsboro.
#9 in 1964.
(Check video out on YouTube.)
(Capo 2nd fret.)
#1.
D Bm D Bm
See the funny little clown, see him laughing
D Bm D Bm
as you walk by.
D Bm D Bm
Everybody thinks he's happy cause you never
D Bm D Bm
see a tear in his eye.
G Gm Gm7
No one knows he's crying...no one knows he's
D
dying on the inside.
G D D7
Cause he's laughing on the outside, mmmm..
G A G D
No one knows...no one knows.
#2.
D Bm D Bm D
See the funny little clown, he's hiding behind
Bm D Bm
A smile.
D Bm D
They all think he's laughing but I know he's
Bm D Bm D Bm
really crying all the while.
G Gm Gm7
How his heart is aching, how his heart is breaking
D G D D7
on the inside...but he keeps laughing on the outside, mmmm..
G A G D
No one knows, no one knows.
CHORUS:
G Gm Gm7
This funny little clown, you never used to see him around,
D Bm D
without his girl beside him, to love and guide him.
G Gm D
Until one day his girl just walked away, and to this very day..
G D
he says he never loved her anyway.
D7 G A F#m Bm
Mmmm, and no one knows...ex..cept for me..
G A D Bm D Bm
because, you see, I'm that funny little clown.
OUTRO:
D Bm D
See the funny little clown.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
#9 in 1964.
(Check video out on YouTube.)
(Capo 2nd fret.)
#1.
D Bm D Bm
See the funny little clown, see him laughing
D Bm D Bm
as you walk by.
D Bm D Bm
Everybody thinks he's happy cause you never
D Bm D Bm
see a tear in his eye.
G Gm Gm7
No one knows he's crying...no one knows he's
D
dying on the inside.
G D D7
Cause he's laughing on the outside, mmmm..
G A G D
No one knows...no one knows.
#2.
D Bm D Bm D
See the funny little clown, he's hiding behind
Bm D Bm
A smile.
D Bm D
They all think he's laughing but I know he's
Bm D Bm D Bm
really crying all the while.
G Gm Gm7
How his heart is aching, how his heart is breaking
D G D D7
on the inside...but he keeps laughing on the outside, mmmm..
G A G D
No one knows, no one knows.
CHORUS:
G Gm Gm7
This funny little clown, you never used to see him around,
D Bm D
without his girl beside him, to love and guide him.
G Gm D
Until one day his girl just walked away, and to this very day..
G D
he says he never loved her anyway.
D7 G A F#m Bm
Mmmm, and no one knows...ex..cept for me..
G A D Bm D Bm
because, you see, I'm that funny little clown.
OUTRO:
D Bm D
See the funny little clown.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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