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Get Happy
Words & Music by Ted Koehler & Harold Arlen*Recorded by Judy Garland, 1950
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.
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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:
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We're headin' 'cross the river,
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Gonna wash our sins in the tide
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It's all so peaceful on the other side
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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"