Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
Verse 1
When I was just a little child,
Happi-ness was there awhile.
Then from me, yeah, it slipped one day, yeah,
Happi-ness, come back, I say.
Bridge 1
'Cos if you don't come,
I've got to go lookin' for happiness.
Well, if you don't come,
I've got to go lookin' Lord, for happiness, happiness. Said that...
Chorus 1
Said, I'm-a hurtin' (in-side), and it's loneliness;
I'm hurtin', I'm hurtin' deep in-side, oh good God, now.
Interlude
Oh, hear my cry, hear my cry;
Yeah, my, my, my, my, my, my, my cry.
Verse 2
Been to-gether like school children,
Then you hurt me just in vain.
Oh Lord, I'm your weary child; oh,
Happi-ness, come back a-while.
Bridge 1
'Cos if you don't come,
I've got to go lookin' for happiness.
The road is dangerous;
I've got to go lookin' for happiness, happiness.
Chorus 2
Said, I'm, don't you know I'm, I'm hurting, hurting inside.
Oh, I'm hurtin', who cares? who cares?
Interlude
Coda
Does the one who loves,
Oh, feel the pain, feel the pain?
Does the one who loves, feel the pain, feel the pain?
Been to-gether, been together like school children...
(Fade)
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