A FAT BOY CAN CRY
(Maurice McAlister)


Billy Stewart - 1965





Everybody loves me, they love a fat boy
They think I'm a lot of fun, just a bundle of joy
They don't believe that anything could ever, ever bother me
But they don't know (How many nights I sit and cry), no no
They don't know, child (How much it hurts since you said goodbye)
They don't seem to realise that this fat boy, he can cry
This fat boy can cry

Everybody loves me, they love a fat boy
They say I'm like the Santa Claus with his bag full of toys
Happy and gay because they've never seen me any other way
But they don't know (How many nights I sit and cry), I'm tellin' ya
They don't know, child (How much it hurts since you said goodbye)
They don't seem to realise that this fat boy, he cries
This fat boy can cry

I've got to keep on smilin'
'Cause if I ever stop to make a frown
All these tears I been savin' for years 
Will come a-fallin' and a-tumblin' down

Everybody loves me, they love a fat boy
They think I'm a lot of fun, just a bundle of joy
They don't believe that anything could ever, ever bother me
But they don't know, oh (How many nights I sit and cry)
They don't know nothin' (How much it hurts since you said goodbye), oh no
They don't seem to realise that this fat boy, he cries
This fat boy can cry

Oh, don't'cha know I'm sheddin' a tear right now ........ FADE






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2015)