I Want To Be Happy
Lyrics by Irving Caesar
Key: G
Music by Vincent Youmans
Copyright 1924

Chords and Lyrics Provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 08/13/2019

Verse 1:

G                 Am   D7
I'm a very ord-in-a-ry man,
G                         Am    D7
Trying to work out life's happy plan
G          Gdim   D7     G
Doing unto others as I'd like
             D7         G
to have them doing unto me.

Bm                        F#7
When I find a very lonely soul,
Bm            D+       D    E7
To be kind be-comes my only goal,
D              G
I feel so much better when I
D                 DdimA7D7
tell them my phil-os-ophy.
DdimD7D+


Chorus:

G
 I want to be happy
D7
But I won't be happy
                      G   D7
till I make you happy too.

G
Life's really worth living
D7
When we are mirth giving
                         G
Why can't I give some to you?

G7
When skies are grey
        C           Cm
And you say you are blue
G                         D7
I'll send the sun shining through

G
I want to be happy
D7
But I won't be happy
                      G  D7
Till I make you happy too

Verse 2:

G                       Am      D7
No one ever talked like that to me
G                       Am       D7
I have never known such sym-path-y
G          Gdim       D7     G
Only in my dreams, it really seems to me
     D7             G
It's too good to be true.

Bm                            F#7
There are smiling faces every-where
Bm          D+       D     E7
Surely I de-serve my littleshare
D           G
I'm a lucky girl to know that
D            DdimA7  D7
I can get it allfromyou
DdimD7D+


Chorus Repeat:
G


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