Happy Instead chords by Zach Bryan

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

🎸 Intro:

C G Am C/B C




🎸 Verse 1:
       C         G           Am       C/B    C
Well
I've been pacin' this room for forty hours
    C            G          Am  C/B    C
Crawlin' up the wall and tryin' not to call
    C           G            Am   C/B    C
And I saw you walking in a supermarket aisle
   C             G             Am       C/B    C
I didn't say a word 'cause you had the biggest smile

🎸 Verse 2:
     C         G           Am          C/B    C
And I've been thinkin' of you in the morning times
      C             G           Am       C/B          C
You woke me up so soft that I forgot the world ain't kind
    C      G           Am        C/B        C
I pull you in and you kissed me through a grin
     C            G                      Am  C/B    C
And you say you missed me when you were busy sleepin'


🎸 Chorus:
                 F              C
But what if I'd said happy instead
        G                          Am
Is the way that I reckon it should be
            F                    C
And if you called you'd say that you're okay
     G                    Am
And I'd be wishin' I was there
                      F     C
'Cause you're happy instead
        G    Am
Happy instead


🎸 Verse 3:
     C         G                Am      C/B     C
And I've been dreamin' of the life we would have had
  C         G       Am C/B     C
Happy at times but mostly just mad
  C            G        Am   C/B      C
Maybe it'd worked out, maybe it'd be fine
     C              G                    Am      C/B     C
But every day your smile ain't showin', seems a waste of time


🎸 Chorus:
                 F              C
But what if I'd said happy instead
        G                          Am
Is the way that I reckon it should be
            F                    C
And if you called you'd say that you're okay
     G                    Am
And I'd be wishin' I was there
                      F     C
'Cause you're happy instead
        G    Am
Happy instead


🎸 Verse 4:
 C         G            Am      C/B      C
It's been ten years
I hadn't called you once
     C                G            Am   C/B     C
When you called last night and my child up and jumped
     C            G        Am C/B     C
He asked who you were and you did the same
  C             G          Am         C/B       C
Handed me the phone and I couldn't recall your name


🎸 Chorus:
                 F              C
But what if I'd said happy instead
        G                          Am
Is the way that I reckon I should be
            F                     C
And if you called you'd hear that I'm okay
     G                       Am
And you'd be wishin' you was there
                      F     C
'Cause I'm happy instead
        G    Am
Happy instead
               F      C
Oh
I'm happy instead
       G      Am
Happy instead

🎸 Outro:
        F                   C
What if I'd said happy instead
       G                          Am
Is the way that I reckon I should be
            F                      C
And if you called you'd hear that I'm okay
     G                        Am
And you'd be wishin' you was dead
                  F      C   G  Am
'Cause I'm happy instead