Eb                           Bb
Seven weeks have passed now since she left me
Cm                     Ab          Eb
She shows her face to ask me how I am
Eb                           Bb
She says the kids are fine, that they miss me
Cm                       Ab       Eb    Bb
Maybe I could come, baby-sit sometime
Bb                      Cm
She says, "are you o.k? I was worried about you.
Bb                   Cm                      Ab
"Can you forgive me? I hope that you'll be happy."
Eb       Bb
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
Cm                  Ab                Eb
I'm so happy I'm laughing through my tears
Bb                                 Cm
I saw a friend of mine.  he said, "I was worried about you
Bb                               Cm              Ab
I heard she had another man, I wondered how you felt about it
         Eb       Bb
I said, I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
Cm                  Ab                Eb
I'm so happy I'm laughing through my tears
Bb             Cm
Saw my lawyer, Mr. good news, he got me
Bb                 Cm          Ab
Joint custody and legal separ-ation
Eb                       C#
I'm so happy that I can't   stop crying
B
I'm laughing through my tears,
Bb
I'm laughing through my tears
Eb                         Bb
I took a walk alone last night. I looked up at the
Cm                               Ab     Eb
stars.  To try to find an answer in my life
Eb                        Bb
I chose a star for me, I chose a star for him
Cm                                Ab               Eb
I chose two stars for my kids and one star for my wife
Bb
Something made me smile.
Cm
Something seemed to ease the pain
Bb                               Cm              Bb
Something about the universe and how it's all connected

 E                                        B
The park is full of sunday fathers, and melted ice cream
C#m                                A      E
We try to do the best, within the givin time
E                                 B
A kid should be with his mother, everybody knows that
C#m                            A         E
What can a father do but baby-sit some-times?
B                                    C#m
I saw that friend of mine, he said, "you look different somehow."
B                            C#m                    A
I said, "everybody's got to leave this darkness sometime."  I say
E                   D
I'm so happy that I    can't stop crying,
C
   Laughing through my tears,
B
  Laughing through my tears
E                    D
I'm so happy that I     can't stop crying
C
  Laughing through my tears,
C                             C  D  B  E
  Laughing through my tears