Standard (EADGBE)

Once he let me share his dreams

But now that they come true it seems

He doesn't want my love I guess look there goes my happiness

 They're climbin' up up up the ladder of success

(The ladder of success.)

Things are like he said they'd be

I thought his plans included me

He forgot his words of love fame is all he's thinking of

 A going up up up up the ladder of success

(The ladder of success.)

I liked him better in his white dungarees

When he was all mine with patches on his knees

(With patches on his knees)

When his name went up in lights

All I got were lonely nights.

He doesn't want my love I guess

Look there goes my happiness

 A goin' up up up up the ladder of success

(Climbin' up whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...)