HAPPY GUITAR
From the film "The Duke Wore Jeans" (1958)
(Lionel Bart / Mike Pratt)

Tommy Steele - 1958



You take a pick
Find a string
Take it quick
Make it swing
Play a run
Strike a chord
Havin' fun
Havin' fun
Havin' fun
All aboard

Happy guitar, play it for me
Happy guitar, play that melody
I wanna hear that chugga-chugga-whom-king
Chugga-chugga-whom-king-chug
From my happy, happy, happy guitar

When I'm blue she makes me grin
She stays by me through thick and thin
Yes, where I go she strings along
That's why I sing this so-o-o-o-ong

Happy guitar, play it for me
Happy guitar, play that melody
I wanna hear that chugga-chugga-whom-king
Chugga-chugga-whom-king-chug
From my happy, happy, happy guitar

Lazy feet can't stay that way
Not when this tune begins to play
So clap your hands and feel the beat
It's comin' from my "geet", oh-oh-oh-oh

Happy guitar, play it for me
Happy guitar, play that melody
I wanna hear that chug-chugga-whom-king
Chug-chugga-whom-king-chug
From my happy, happy, happy, happy
Happy, happy guitar


(Transcribed by Ferday Dolunay & Mel Priddle - April 2006)