Get Happy
Words:Theodore Koehler
Music:Harold Arlen
Performed By:  Ruth Etting, Nat Shilkret (1930), Frankie Trumbauer (1930), Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland (1950), Ella Fitzgerald, Jane Froman (1952), Susan Hayward (1952)
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A7
A7+5
Unknown
Am7
Bm7-5
C
D
D7
E7
F7
G
G/B
A7   A7+5  A7   D           G/B      D        G
Pack  up  your troubles and just get happy;

          D              A7   G/B   D    A7
Ya better chase all your cares a - way.

    A7+5  A7   D           G/B      D        G
Sing Hal -le - lu - jah, c'mon get happy,

    D              A7       D  D7
Get ready for the judgment day.


           G          Am7      G      C
The sun is shinin', c'mon get happy,

             G         D7    Am7  G   D7
The Lord is waiting to take your hand;

                 G          Am7      G      C
Shout Hal - le - lu - jah, c'mon get happy,

      G              D7    Am7   G     A7
We're goin' to the Prom - ised Land.



(Bridge:)


      F7                 E7
We're headin' 'cross the river,

      A7                    D7
Gonna wash our sins in the tide

     F7     Bm7-5    E7            A7
It's all so peaceful on the other side



A7   A7+5  A7   D           G/B      D        G
For - get your troubles and just get happy

          D              A7   G/B   D    A7
Ya better chase all your cares a - way

     A7+5  A7   D           G/B      D        G
Sing Hal - le - lu - jah, c'mon get happy

    D              A7       D  D7
Get ready for the judgment day



G          Am7      G          C
The sun is shinin', c'mon get happy,

             G         D7    Am7  G   D7
The Lord is waiting to take your hand;

                 G          Am7      G      C
Shout Hal - le - lu - jah, c'mon get happy,

      G              D7    Am7   G     A7
We're goin' to the Prom - ised Land.



(Repeat Bridge)



(Repeat first verse)



*This was Harold Arlen's first published song, and it charted a number of 
times over the ensuing decades. It reached the top twenty twice in 1930: 
once by Nat Shilkret (# 6) and once by Frankie Trumbauer (# 15). 
Introduced by Ruth Etting in the revue "9:15 Revue." Dubbed by Jane Froman 
for Susan Hayward in the 1952 film "With A Song In My Heart"
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