Happy Birthday Blues:Kathy Young (And The
Innocents.)
#30 on BB Hot 100 on INDIGO Records in
1961.
INTRO:
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There she sits all alone, her tear begins to shed.
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A written letter in her hand, this is how it read.
.......G F G C.......
#1.
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Turned sixteen just yesterday......all my world was
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bright and gay.
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Thought for sure you'd write or call, but you didn't,
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after all..got the Happy Birthday Blues.
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(Happy Birthday blues.)
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#2.
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Maybe you had lots to do, or you found somebody new.
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How I pray you'll hear my plea..I'm as lonely as can
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be, got the Happy Birthday Blues.
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(Happy Birthday blues.)
BRIDGE:
FC
I planned just how this day would be for such a long,
long time.
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You'd wish me Happy Birthday, while I held your hand in
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mine.
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I'd blow out all the candles, while I wished that you
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and I, would be together, evermore, until the day we die.
#3.
GCAm7F
As I sit here in the gloom, of my cold and lonely room.
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How my heart is filled with fears, and my eyes are filled
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with tears..got the Happy Birthday Blues.
OUTRO:
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Happy Birthday blues..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.