Happy Days chords by Television Music

Chords with lyrics

Pratt & McClain had a Top 5 hit with this in '76 ('77?). This transcription
pertains to the actual theme from when they switched to taping the show before
a live audience (the same time "Rock Around The Clock" was dumped), until it
was replaced by an inferior version for the last season.

                 "Happy Days"
              (Norman Gimble-Charles Fox)

Verse 1:

    FF        DmDm
    Sunday...    happy days
    Bb majorBb         C7C7
    Tuesday...     happy days
    A7A7        DmDm
    Thursday...    happy days
      Bb majorBb   C majorC     Bb majorBb  C majorC
    The weekend comes... cycle hums
    C/EC/E   Bb/FBb/F B/F# C7C7
    Ready... race to  you

Chorus:

    FF         DmDm
     These...    ours
    Bb majorBb      C7C7      FF
     Happy... free (oh...  days)
    (FF)        DmDm
     These...    ours
    Bb majorBb         C7C7
     Share...    me (oh baby)

Bridge:

    FF [N.C.]     FF [N.C.]
    Goodbye...    hello...
        Bb majorBb [N.C.]         Bb majorBb  A augmentedA AbAb
    There's nothin'...         hold...
    G+G [N.C.]     G7G7 [N.C.]
    Feels so...    can't be...
    C7C7 [N.C.] C7C7 [N.C.] C7C7
    Rockin'... rollin'  all week...

Organ/sax solo [arr for guitar]:

    FF        DmDm        Bb majorBb        C7C7
    v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v
    ------------0---|1-----3-----5---|----------------|0---------------|
    ----1---3-------|----------------|3---------------|----3---1-------|
    ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------3-----|
    ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

    FF        DmDm        Bb majorBb        C7C7
    v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v  v
    ------------0---|1-----3-----5---|----------------|5---3---0-------|
    ----1---3-------|----------------|3---------------|------------3---|
    ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

Verse 2:

    Sunday, Monday...
    Tuesday, Wednesday...
    Thrusday, Friday...
    Saturday, what...
    Groovin' all...

Chorus 2:

    These days...
    Share them...   (oh happy days)
    These days...
    Happy and...  (oh baby)
    FF       DmDm         Bb majorBb
     These...  days...      mine
           C7C7        Bb majorBb  C7C7  FF [end cold]
    These...  days...      mine, happy days

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