Am I The Fool - Dinah Washington

Am I The Fool - Dinah Washington
If tears were dollar bills
I'd be a millionaire
If pain was real estate
I'd be Piccadilly Square
If scars were silver bars
I'd be the best dressed chick in town
Am I the fool who's passing for a clown
If heartaches were made of silk
I'd be softer than a sigh
Like and human kindness milk
I'd have the whole world supplied
I'm always building up
To what he's always tearing down
Tell me am I the fool who's passing for a clown
Now some experts in love say
Get evil
How long can you play a fool
But the clown starts to frown
Down in me and says
Keep on living living by the golden rule
So why should mother fight
If misery seems to be
If troubles seems the height of a sweet stupidity
For on some given night
He just might make it back to be
The fool who's passing for a clown