Happy Birthday Blues
by 
Will Jennings 
Joe Sample 
recording of 1979 
from 
Take It Home (MCA 11770) 
Baby lights her cigarette 
And takes a look around 
She says that morning sun 
Sure does get her down 
Nothing else to see 
Just to help her lose 
Those happy birthday blues 
Grandpa takes a drink of wine 
And tells it like it was 
Tells me all he wants to do 
Is what everybody does 
Say he'd give the world 
For a little girl 
Just to help him lose 
Those happy birthday blues 
Happy birthday blues 
Happy birthday blues 
Got to pay your dues 
Those happy birthday blues 
In and out and on and on 
Everybody goes 
And where the fun with finally stops 
Everybody knows 
Girls it's me and you 
Doing what we do 
Just one way to lose 
Those happy birthday blues