Happy Birthday Blues:Kathy Young (And The
Innocents.)
#30 on BB Hot 100 on INDIGO Records in
1961.
INTRO:
[C]There she sits all alone, her [F]tear begins to [C]shed.
A written [Em]letter [F]in her hand, [G]this is how it [C]read.
.......G F G C.......
#1.
[G]Turned sixteen just yester[C]day.[Am7].....[C]all my world was
bright and [F]gay.
[Dm7]Thought for [F]sure you'd write or [G]call, but you didn't,
after all..got the Happy Birthday [C]Blues.
([F]Happy Birthday [C]blues.)[G][Em][G][C]
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/k/kathy_young/happy_birthday_blues_crd.html )
#2.
May[G]be you had [C]lots to do, [Am7]or you found [C]somebody n[F]ew.
[F]How I pray you'll hear my [G]plea..I'm as lonely as can
be, got the Happy Birthday [C]Blues.
(Happy [F]Birthday [C]blues.)[C7]
BRIDGE:
I [F]planned just how this day would be for [C]such a long,
long time.
You'd [F]wish me Happy Birthday, while I [C]held your [Am7]hand in
[G]mine.
I'd [F]blow out all the candles, while I [C]wished that you
and I, would be toget[Am7]her, evermore, un[D]til the day we [G]die.
#3.
[G]As I sit here in the [C]gloom, [Am7]of my cold and lonely [F]room.
[F]How my heart is filled with [G]fears, and my [F]eyes are filled
with [G]tears..got the Happy Birthday [C]Blues.
OUTRO:
[C]Happy [B]Birthday [C]blues..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
Innocents.)
#30 on BB Hot 100 on INDIGO Records in
1961.
INTRO:
[C]There she sits all alone, her [F]tear begins to [C]shed.
A written [Em]letter [F]in her hand, [G]this is how it [C]read.
.......G F G C.......
#1.
[G]Turned sixteen just yester[C]day.[Am7].....[C]all my world was
bright and [F]gay.
[Dm7]Thought for [F]sure you'd write or [G]call, but you didn't,
after all..got the Happy Birthday [C]Blues.
([F]Happy Birthday [C]blues.)[G][Em][G][C]
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/k/kathy_young/happy_birthday_blues_crd.html )
#2.
May[G]be you had [C]lots to do, [Am7]or you found [C]somebody n[F]ew.
[F]How I pray you'll hear my [G]plea..I'm as lonely as can
be, got the Happy Birthday [C]Blues.
(Happy [F]Birthday [C]blues.)[C7]
BRIDGE:
I [F]planned just how this day would be for [C]such a long,
long time.
You'd [F]wish me Happy Birthday, while I [C]held your [Am7]hand in
[G]mine.
I'd [F]blow out all the candles, while I [C]wished that you
and I, would be toget[Am7]her, evermore, un[D]til the day we [G]die.
#3.
[G]As I sit here in the [C]gloom, [Am7]of my cold and lonely [F]room.
[F]How my heart is filled with [G]fears, and my [F]eyes are filled
with [G]tears..got the Happy Birthday [C]Blues.
OUTRO:
[C]Happy [B]Birthday [C]blues..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
