Happy Shades Of Blue Chords

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Happy Shades Of Blue by Freddy Cannon is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Bbm, F, D, A, Bm, Am7, Em and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			

Intro: G C Bbm C  (x2) 

#1  
G                           C 
Bluebells on my doorstep  a-blue skies up above  
  G                                C         F 
A bluebird's over the mountain and your blue ribbon  
C           D      F 
love  (whoa-oh-oh) shining in your blue eyes  
C           A 
I'm a lucky man   
    Bm          D          G 
Bluebells, blue skies  bluebirds, blue eyes  I got  
    C           F      C 
the blues and I got em glad  

 
      G                                       C 
(Whoa-hoh, hoh) hap-happy shades of blue over you,  
       Am7 
I mean y-o-u  
        G                             C 
I got a-hap-happy shades of blue over you  
      G                                       C 
(Whoa-hoh, hoh) hap-happy shades of blue over you,  
       Am7 
I mean y-o-u  
        G                             C 
I got a-hap-happy shades of blue over you  


INTERLUDE: G  C  G  C  G  C 

#2  
G    Em    G                 C 
Some folks sing a blue song  when they're  

feeling sad  
  Em             G                 C 
A-blues straight out of St  Louis, always brought  

it bad  
Dm     F                      C          A 
Now, I don't understand them, cause I've always  

had (what do you have?) 
    D                      G 
Bluebells, blue skies, bluebirds, blue eyes   
          C           F       C 
I got the blues and I got 'em glad  

 
      G                                       C 
(Whoa-hoh, hoh) hap-happy shades of blue over you,  
       Am7 
I mean y-o-u  
        G                             C 
I got a-hap-happy shades of blue over you  
      G                                       C 
(Whoa-hoh, hoh) hap-happy shades of blue over you,  
       Am7 
I mean y-o-u  
        G                             C 
I got a-hap-happy shades of blue over you  

OUTRO: 

     G  C  Am7  G  C  G  C  G   (Fade ) 



A sixties smash from Kraziekhat  
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante