Z -Why Can't I Be Happy (Just Like Him)

Why Can't I Be Happy (Just Like Him)

Intro/End - C Am

Verse - C Am Em Em7 x2
Well the rain was falling
And hard times were calling
Up some memories of my past
About a kid just running through
Some fields and sun
Without thinking will it last

Chorus - F G C Am F G C

And if he could be so happy then
Without having done a thing
Why can't I be happy
Just like him

Verse

Well the forests have all turned to woods
And the rivers become streams
And a town that seemed so bad and good
Now it only seems

Chorus Chords

And the jungle fields
Where we fought and killed
And set our mines and traps
Are now just places
That you find in maps

And if he could be so happy then
Without having done a thing
Why can't I be happy
Just like him

Verse - C Am Em Em7 x2
Now the rain's still falling
And I'm still recalling
Just how the die was cast
And I can't help feeling
That I'm still kneeling
In the shackles of my past

Chorus x2

Then talking over C Am - Where's that bloody gas bill?
No, I'm not going to see your darling bloody mother tonight.

Date mostly written: 1982