Unhappy Birthday Chords
by The Smiths
Unhappy Birthday by The Smiths is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, F, Bb, G, C and Cmaj7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D F Bb G
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
D F Bb
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
G D F
because you're evil and you lie and if you should die
Bb G D F D
I may feel slightly sad but I won't cry
G D C
Loved and lost and some may say
D C Cmaj7
when usually it's nothing surley you're happy it should be this way?
D C
I say "No, Im gonna kill my dog" and
D C Cmaj7
"May the lines sag, the lines sag heavy and deep tonight"
D F Bb G
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
D F Bb
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
G D F
because you're evil and you lie and if you should die
Bb G D F D
I may feel slightly sad but I won't cry
G D C
Loved and lost and some may say
D C Cmaj7
when usually it's nothing surley you're happy it should be this way?
D C
I said "no" and then I shot myself
D C Cmaj7
so, drink, drink, drink and be ill tonight
D F Bb G
from the one you left behind from the one you left behind
D F Bb G
from the one you left behind from the one you left behind...