Happiness - Rex Orange County

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Suggested voicings:
    x4332x
      686668
  x655x5
  x33311
     x12010 (play as an UP stroke)
      x32323 (barre 2nd fret)

For the descending sections at the end, try to focus on the bass notes:
     x40231
      x30231
      x20231      


[Verse 1]
            
I'll be the on

e
              
That stays 'ti

       
ll the end
              
And I'll be th

  
e one
              
That needs you

 
 again
              
And I'll be th

             
e one that pro


poses
      
In a garden of

 
 roses
           
And truly love

             
s you long aft

   
er our curtain

 closes

[Refrain]

But will you s

till love me
            
When nobody wa

               
nts me around
       
When I turn 81

 and forget th

ings
        
Will you still

         
 be proud?

[Verse 2]
              
Cause I am the

 
 one
              
That waited th

   
is long
             
And I am the o


ne
              
That might get

    
 it wrong
              
And I'll be th

  
e one
           
That will love


 you
      
The way I'm su

         
pposed to, gir

     
l

[Refrain]

But will you s

till love me
            
When nobody wa

               
nts me around
       
When I turn 81

 and forget th

ings
        
Will you still

         
 be proud?

[Verse 3]
             
Proud of me, o

        
f my short lis

      
t of accomplis

           
hments
           
Me and my lack

        
 of new news
          
Me and my self


ishness
    
Or me and myse

           
lf wish you no

             
thing but a ha

         
ppy new versio

n of you

[Verse 4]
       
Cause I. . .  

          
    I. . .
           
I want you to 

        
tell me you fi

/            
nd it hard to 

          
be yourself so

            
 I can say, "I

      
t's gonna be a

 
lright."
            
And I want you

         
 to love me th

          
e way you love

          
 your family, 

            
the way you lo

      
ve to show me 

          
what it's like


...
     
...to be happy

[Outro]
             (x2)