LOVE YOU'RE JUST A LAUGH
Saul Chaplin / Sammy Cahn / Nat Gardner

as recorded by Chick Webb & his Orchestra 
(vocal - Ella Fitzgerald)  
June 2nd 1936 
New York


Oh love, you're just a laugh,
And the smile I wear is the aftermath;
You no longer care; love you're just a laugh,
But the joke is on me!

Oh it's so funny, how could you forget
Things I still believe?  I can hear you yet
Letting off your steam; love you're just a laugh,
But the joke is on me!

How could you employ my lovin',
Then destroy my love when you were through with me?
You were only bidin' time, until somebody new
Could be made a fool by you!

And what I thought would last
Faded with the plan, we two were the cast.
Cupid played the plan, love you're just a laugh,
But the joke is on me!

How could you employ my lovin',
Then destroy my love when you were through with me?
You were only bidin' time, until somebody new
Could be made a fool by you!

Oh, what I thought would last
Faded with the plan, we two were the cast.
Cupid played the plan, love you're just a laugh,
But the joke is on me!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - March 2013)