I Want To Be Happy 1924

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 Apr 2005

[James:] I'm a very ordinairy 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.

I want to be happy,
but I won'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.

I want to be happy,
but I won'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.

[Nanette:] No one ever talked like that to me,
I have never known such sympathy,
only in my dreams, it really seems
to me it's too good to be true.
There are smiling faces ev'rywhere,
surely I deserve my little share,
I'm a lucky girl
to know that I can get it all from you.

I want to be happy,
but I won'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.

I want to be happy,
but I won'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.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I Want To Be Happy 1924
Music by Vincent Yeomans
Lyrics by Irving Caesar
© 1924 by Warner Bros. Inc. (renewed)
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 21 April 2005 at 20.21
in association with Doug Grierson
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