Happy Birthday Blues chords

Kathy Young

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  			Happy Birthday Blues:Kathy Young (And The 
Innocents.) 
#30 on BB Hot 100 on INDIGO Records in 
1961. 

Intro: 
C                             F              C 
There she sits all alone, her tear begins to shed. 
          Em     F            G              C 
A written letter in her hand, this is how it read. 

.......G F GC....... 

#1. 
G                         C   Am7  C 
Turned sixteen just yesterday......all my world was  
           F 
bright and gay. 
Dm7         F                   G 
Thought for sure you'd write or call, but you didn't,  
                                  C 
after all..got the Happy Birthday Blues. 
 F              C      G Em G C 
(Happy Birthday blues.) 

#2. 
   G          C           Am7          C         F 
Maybe you had lots to do, or you found somebody new. 
F                         G 
How I pray you'll hear my plea..I'm as lonely as can  
                           C 
be, got the Happy Birthday Blues. 
       F        C      C7 
(Happy Birthday blues.) 

Bridge: 
  F                                      C 
I planned just how this day would be for such a long,  

long time. 
      F                               C         Am7 
You'd wish me Happy Birthday, while I held your hand in  
G 
mine. 
    F                                 C 
I'd blow out all the candles, while I wished that you  
                     Am7              D              G 
and I, would be together, evermore, until the day we die. 

#3. 
G                    C      Am7                   F 
As I sit here in the gloom, of my cold and lonely room. 
F                           G             F 
How my heart is filled with fears, and my eyes are filled  
     G                             C 
with tears..got the Happy Birthday Blues. 

OUTRO: 
C     B        C 
Happy Birthday blues..(Fade.) 



A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.