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I Want To Be Happy
Words by Irving Caesar, Music by Vincent Youmans - 1924
 Verse:
C Dm7          G7 C Dm7          G7
C              Ebdim    E7 Dm7          G7 C -
Em C#             B7 Em             B7 Em7         C#dim
G                D7 G               A7     D7 G7 -
 Chorus:
C - G7 -
- - C G7
C - G7 -
- - C G7
C7 - F Fm
C - D7 G7
C - G7 -
- - C -      (G7 to chorus)
8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.
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Verse:
I'm a very ordinary man, Trying to work out life's happy plan,
Doing unto others as I'd like to have them doing unto me.
When I find a very lonely soul, "To be kind" becomes my only goal.
I feel so much better when I tell them my philosophy.
 
Chorus:
I Want To Be Happy, But I can't be happy,
'Till I make you happy too.
Life's really worth living, When we are mirth giving.
Why can't I give some to you?
When skies are gray and you say you are blue,
I'll send the sun smiling through.
I Want To Be Happy, But I won't be happy,
'Till I make you happy too.
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Listen to the Sacramento Banjo Band perform "I Want To Be Happy" (mp3)
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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