G             C         D
Why can't you try to be happy?
G             C        D7
Why must you always be sad?
Em             D         G
Why spend your only life waitin'
   C             D            G
to have what you know you can have?

[Verse]
G              C         D
Why spend your only life hopin'?
       Em         D         C  D
What a torture to be always blue,   darlin'.
G              D          Em
Why spend your only life waiting
C              D            G
to do what you know you can do?

[Bridge]
B7
What's the worst thing that could
                             Em   D   C   D
possibly happen to you?

G  C  D
G  C  D7
Em D  G
C  D  G

G              C         D
Why spend your only life hopin'?
       Em         D         C  D
What a torture to be always blue,   darlin'.
G              D          Em
Why spend your only life waiting
C              D            G
to do what you know you can do?
G              D          Em
Why spend your only life waiting
C              D            G
to do what you know you can do?