Key: C major
Verse 1
Em
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Dm
Used to be you were bad for me
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C
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E
And every night I'd pray
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Am
For you to change
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Baug
When I hear myself say
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C
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Am
Please don't make me too happy
Dm
G
Because if you do
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A
My songwriting will suffer
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Dm
D
A
from the bliss you
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G
put me through.
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Em
Nothing's quite as boring
Cm
Em
Am
We'll be so blinded
Edim
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Am
A
by the stars in our eyes.
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Dm
Abdim
We won't see the stars above.
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Em
D
We'll see rainbows in a naked sky
Em
G
Am
An d in bottles on the ground,
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Am
we'll draw rainbow
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Edim
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Gm
s on those tablecloths.
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Am
Fm
Ddim
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In cute restaurants downtown,
we'll pet puppies when
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C
we need them.
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F
Peek at babies in their strollers,
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C
completely.
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F
Right -wing atheists,
left -wing boulders,
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Em
we'll hold hands in the sit -in market,
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Eaug
we will make out in the movies,
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Edim
A
and for no apparent reason,
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G
we'll start singin', feelin' groovy.
Em
Dm
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F
though not like he is now
Well I hope they're happy,
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G
Am
C
but not that happy
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Am
F
G
Or their songwriting will go to hell
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A
Please don't make me too happy
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Dm
I'm Catholic, you're Jewish,
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Am
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Dm
We were born to suffer, so
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Am
And the perfume and the wine,
Edim
Gm
Edim
I know we'll be in trouble
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Dm
Ddim
If we start smiling all the time
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Em
I'll write songs about pink sunsets
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Am
C
Am
And long walks along the ocean
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Edim
You'll buy Kenny G recordings
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Fm
Ddim
You'll learn to do the locomotion
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C
G
We'll read Barbara Cartland novels,
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F
cry at the end of every chapter.
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C
We'll believe it when she writes that,
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C
with heaving bosoms,
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F
the lovers lived happily ever after.
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F
Em
Then we'll rent old Yeller,
C
Am
and a fair to remember the Casablanca.
A
Edim
C
And anything and everything
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Am
Fm
That stars are not fun and chill
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Fm
Oh, and Paul Anka
I always get them mixed up
Because of both prisoners of their hairdos
We won't care about
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G
C
the environment
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G
We won't watch the headline news
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C
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Gm
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We won't understand the blues.
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D
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Dm
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C
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D
Fm
Am
C
Dm
Was that the blues?
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G
Am
Please don't make me too happy
Dm
G
I'll grow accustomed to this way of life
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Am
I'll turn sentimental, you'll turn sappy
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Dm
I want to be your wife
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Em
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Em
I'll stop hating shopping
Edim
A
Perhaps pottery,
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Ddim
Fm
that's what Demi Moore did in Ghost,
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Em
oh, she was so very happy.
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Edim
Do you think there'll be a sequel?
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C
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C
A wise man once told me,
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F
Your greatest fear is your deepest wish,
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C
men like him confuse me.
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Em
see that wasn't a very good rhyme.
cause all I can think about
Edim
A
are rainbows and puppies
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Abdim
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Am
and rainbows and ba bies.
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G
Am
You make me so happy,
Dm
G
it's really getting me mad,
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G
Am
anger is so awful,
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Ddim
G
now I'm getting mor ose,
Em
G
Em
but that makes me happy,
Edim
A
if you keep making me happy,
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Ddim
One day you'll look,
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Dm
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Dm
G
Yes,
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Dm
I'll be walking down that long, lonesome,
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Am
No babies, no puppies,
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G
no rainbows on that road.
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Am
It'll be long and horrible and pathetic,
What do you mean you don't understand
G
me?
Outro 1
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