Kathy Young – Happy Birthday Blues chords

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

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

.......G F G C.......

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

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

BRIDGE:
  F                                      CI planned just how this day would be for such a long, 

long time.
      F                               C         Am7You'd wish me Happy Birthday, while I held your hand in 
Gmine.
    F                                 CI'd blow out all the candles, while I wished that you 
                     Am7              D              Gand I, would be together, evermore, until the day we die.

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

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



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