| NC | G | A | |
| (POP) POP-A-TOP a- | gain |
| G | D | |
| I've just got time for | one more | round |
| G | A | |
| Set 'em up my | friend |
| G | A | |
| Then I'll be gone and | you can let |
| G | D | |
| some other | fool set | down. |
| D | G | |
| I'd like for you to | listen to |
| A | D | |
| A | joke I heard to- | day |
| G | |
| >From a woman who said | she was cool |
| A | D | |
| And | calmly walked a- | way |
| G | |
| I tried to smile, and | did a-while |
| A | D | |
| But it | felt so out of | place |
| G | |
| Did you ever hear of a | clown with teardrops |
| A | D | |
| streamin' down his | face. |
| CHORUS |
| All to me is misery |
| And here I'm wastin' time |
| 'Cause a row of fools on a row of stools |
| Is not what's on my mind |
| But then you see, her need of me |
| Is not what I prefer |
| So it's either here a-drinkin' beer |
| Or home remembering her. |
| CHORUS |