Capo 1 
 
F                           C 
Seven weeks have passed now since she left me 
Dm                    Bb  
She shows her face to ask me how I am 
F                           C 
She says the kids are fine, that they miss me 
Dm                      Bb 
Maybe I could come, baby-sit sometime 
C                       Dm 
She says, "Are you o.k? I was worried about you. 
C                   Dm                    Bb 
Can you forgive me? I hope that you'll be happy." 
F                    C 
I'm so happy, that I can't stop crying 
Dm                Bb       
I'm so happy, I'm laughing through my tears 
C                                 Dm 
I saw a friend of mine. He said, "I was worried about you 
C                              Dm               Bb 
I heard she had another man, I wondered how you felt about it." 
        F                     C 
I said, "I'm so happy that I, can't stop crying." 
Dm                Bb  
I'm so happy, I'm laughing through my tears 
C              Dm       Bb 
Saw my lawyer, Mr. good news, he got me 
C                 Dm          Bb 
Joint custody and legal separ-ation 
F                        F7/11 
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying 
F7/11 
I'm laughing through my tears, 
C 
I'm laughing through my tears 
F                        C 
I took a walk alone last night. I looked up at the 
Dm                              Bb 
stars. To try to find an answer in my life 
F                        C 
I chose a star for me, I chose a star for him 
Dm                                Bb 
I chose two stars for my kids and one star for my wife 
C 
Something made me smile. 
Dm                       Bb 
Something seemed to ease the pain 
C                                Dm           Bb       F7/E 
Something about the universe and how it's all connected 
 
(During the solo move the capo up one fret) 
Capo 2 
F                                       C 
The park is full of sunday fathers, and melted ice cream 
Dm                                Bb 
We try to do the best, within the givin time 
F                                C 
A kid should be with his mother, everybody knows that 
Dm                           Bb 
What can a father do but baby-sit some-times? 
C                                    Dm 
I saw that friend of mine, he said, "you look different somehow." 
C                           Dm                  Bb 
I said, "everybody's got to leave this darkness sometime."  I say, 
F                    F7/11 
"I'm so happy that I can't stop crying." 
F7/11 
   Laughing through my tears, 
F7/11 
  Laughing through my tears 
F                   F7/11 
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying 
F7/11 
  Laughing through my tears, 
F7/11 
  Laughing through my tears 
F