Happy Birthday Blues chords by Kathy Young

Chords with lyrics

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

INTRO:
C majorC               FF       C majorC
There she sits all alone, her tear begins to shed.
     E minorEm   FF      G+G       C majorC
A augmentedA written letter in her hand, this is how it read.

.......G FF G+G C.......

#1.
G+G             C majorC  Am7Am7 C majorC
Turned sixteen just yesterday......all my world was
      FF
bright and gay.
Dm7Dm7     FF          G+G
Thought for sure you'd write or call, but you didn't,
                 C majorC
after all..got the Happy Birthday Blues.
 FF       C majorC   G+G E minorEm G+G C majorC
(Happy Birthday blues.)
#2.
  G+G     C majorC      Am7Am7     C majorC     FF
Maybe you had lots to do, or you found somebody new.
FF             G+G
How I pray you'll hear my plea..I'm as lonely as can
              C majorC
be, got the Happy Birthday Blues.
    FF    C majorC   C7C7
(Happy Birthday blues.)

BRIDGE:
 FF                   C majorC
I planned just how this day would be for such a long,

long time.
   FF                C majorC     Am7Am7
You'd wish me Happy Birthday, while I held your hand in
G+G
mine.
  FF                 C majorC
I'd blow out all the candles, while I wished that you
           Am7Am7       D MajorD       G+G
and I, would be together, evermore, until the day we die.

#3.
G+G          C majorC   Am7Am7          FF
As I sit here in the gloom, of my cold and lonely room.
FF              G+G       FF
How my heart is filled with fears, and my eyes are filled
   G+G               C majorC
with tears..got the Happy Birthday Blues.

OUTRO:
C majorC   BB    C majorC
Happy Birthday blues..(Fade.)


A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.