Chords for Many Happy Returns

_ _ [Dm] _ _ [F] _ When I [Gm] accepted this job, _ I was resigned to my fate.
_ When I got there early, [F] _ _ she'd [Gm] arrive [F] late. _
You can say [Gm] she's gone forever, [F] _ _
or just [Gm] sit tight and [F] wait.
_ She said I was [Gm] unprincipled, [F] but I was not the first.
[Gm] Like the phoenix coming [C] back [F] from [Gm] the ashes.
[C] I _ [F] _ _
[Gm] know what's [C] good, [F] but I know [Gm] what trash is.
_ [C] _ _ [F] In [Gm] the headlines, in [C] the [F] highlights, I'll go [Gm] ahead.
_ _ [C] _ _ [F] Hit [Gm] the headlines, _ [C] _ [F] but she's [Gm] not _ _ [C] there.
Many happy returns, many happy returns. _ _
[F] These are the lessons I could have learned.
[Gm] Many happy returns, _ [G] and these are the letters I should have learned.
_ Okay, I'm sad and I'm blue.
[Gm] _ Okay, _ remember. _ _
_ All that matters [D] to me now _ _ is the message I sent [F] her.
Like [Gm] the world spinning [C] round, [F] _
[Gm] it's axis.
[C] I _ [F] _
[Gm] know _ _ [C] democracy, [F] but I know [Gm] what's fascist.
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _
[Gm] When she's gone, [C] all I've [F] got to learn [Gm] is the law of [C] diminishing [F] return. _
[Gm] When she's here, one [C] thing [F] I've found.
[Gm] Things get better [C] second time around.
[Gm] _ Many happy returns, _ _
[F] many happy returns.
These are the lessons I could have learned.
[G] _ Many happy returns, _ [F] and these are the letters I should have learned.
[G] _ Okay, I'm sad and I'm blue.
[Gm] _ Okay, _ remember. _ _
_ All that matters to me now [F] _ is the message I sent her. _
[Eb] _ Now she's gone, [Gm] she's gone away. _
_ [Dm] Now she's gone, forget her. _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ Another day, _
[Dm] _ if you don't let [Bb] her.
[A] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _
[Gm] Oh, _ _ _ [C] _ [F] let her [Gm] go.
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _
[Gm] _ Now she's gone, [C] she's gone [F] away.
[Gm] _ Now she's gone, [C] forget [F] her. _
[Gm] _ I'm coming back [C] no other [F] day.
[G] _ So I [C] resurrect her. _
[G] _ Many happy returns, many happy returns.
These are the [F] lessons I should have learned.
Many happy returns, many happy [Dm] returns.
These [F] are the letters I should have [G] learned. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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