GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY
From the Broadway show "On Your Toes" (1936)
(Music: Richard Rodgers / Lyrics: Lorenz Hart)

Doris Carson & David Morris (Broadway Production) - 1936
Bea Wain - 1939
Lee Wiley - 1940
Lena Horne - 1946
Kay Coulter & Joshua Shelley (Broadway Revival) - 1954
Helen Merrill - 1955
Sammy Davis Jr. - 1955
Frank Sinatra - 1955
Audrey Morris - 1956
Billie Holiday - 1958
Margaret Whiting - 1958
Chris Connor - 1959
Diahann Carroll - 1960
Eric Dolphy - 1960
Sarah Vaughan - 1963
The Mamas & The Papas - 1967
Nancy Wilson - 1969
Carmen McRae - 1972
Barbra Streisand - 1973
Bobby Short - 1975
Christine Andreas (Broadway Revival) - 1983
Peggy King - 1983
Rebecca Kilgore - 1997
Wesla Whitfield - 1999
Jessica Molaskey - 2004
Tierney Sutton - 2006

Also recorded by: Wynton Marsalis; Eugene Chadbourne
Benny Green; Etienne Daho; Chris Botti & John Mayer;
Buddy Rich; Paul Desmond ....... and others.



Look at yourself, if you had a sense of humour
You would laugh to beat the band
Look at yourself, do you still believe the rumour
That romance is simply grand

Since you took it right on the chin
You have lost that bright toothpaste grin
My mental state is all a-jumble
I sit around and sadly mumble

Fools rush in, so here I am
Very glad to be unhappy
I can't win, but here I am
More than glad to be unhappy

Unrequited love's a bore
And I've got it pretty bad
But for someone you adore
It's a pleasure to be sad

Like a straying baby lamb
With no mammy and no pappy
I'm so unhappy
But oh, so glad

(Orchestral Break)

Unrequited love's a bore
And I've got it pretty bad
But for someone you adore
It's a pleasure to be sad

Like a straying baby lamb
With no mammy and no pappy
I'm so unhappy
But oh, so glad



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2011)