Chords for Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro Blue Peter 1989 p3

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_ _ _ I'll tell you what, my friends, he likes the ball, don't you?
So if you don't like it, they might.
_ Well, now back to the 60s, and it's not just clothes like these that are coming back.
Music written 25 years ago is regularly getting into today's charts.
Jason Donovan has just had a number one with Sealed With A Kiss,
which was first a hit for Brian Hyland in 1962.
A year before that, in 1961, Helen Shapiro was one of the youngest performers of the decade
to make it to number one in the charts when she was only 14.
She was still at school, and indeed a Blue Peter viewer, when she recorded her very first hit.
I'm very glad I've left school, although of course I miss being with [G] my friends and girls of my own [E] age,
but on the whole I'm [Eb] pleased about it. _ _ _ _
[G] She was voted most popular female vocalist in Britain that year,
and on her very first British tour, she topped the bill,
[Ab] while a new up-and-coming group, the Beatles, supported her.
Perhaps her most famous number was a song called Walking Back to Happiness.
_ _ _ Funny, but it's [F] true
[Fm] _ What loneliness can [Bbm] do
_ Since I've been away
[Bb] I have [Eb] loved you more each day
[Ab] Walking back [Fm] to happiness
[Ab] Oh, I, oh yeah
Said goodbye [Fm] to loneliness
[Ab] Oh, I, oh yeah
[Eb] I never [Ab] knew I'd miss you
[Bbm] Now I know [Ab] what I must do
Walking [Fm] back to happiness
[Bbm] I share [Ab] with you
[Fm] But [Eb] I'm gonna make [Fm] enough for things I [Ab] said
Oh, I, oh yeah
And mistakes [Fm] to which they [Ab] led
Oh, I, oh yeah
[Eb] I shouldn't have gone [Eb] away
So I'm [Ab] coming back today
Walking [Fm] back to happiness
I took [Ab] away
[Fm] But [Ab] I'm gonna go walking back to happiness With you
Said farewell to loneliness [Eb] I knew
_ _ [Bbm] Laid [Ab] aside, foolish [Bb] pride
Learned to treat [Eb] from peers like [Bb] pride _
_ _ [Ab] Pressing you, [Fm] I'm on my [Ab] way
Oh, I, oh yeah
All my [Fm] blues have blown [Ab] away
Oh, I, oh yeah
[Eb] I'm bringing you luck so true
But that's [Ab] what I will do
Walking [Fm] back to happiness
[Bb] [Eb] I share with you
[Cm] _ [Ab] Walking back to happiness With you
_ Said farewell to loneliness [Eb] I knew
_ _ [Bbm] Laid [Ab] aside, foolish [Bb] pride
Learned to treat [Eb] from peers like [B] pride _ _ _
[A] Pressing you, [Gbm] I'm on my [A] way
Oh, I, oh yeah
All my [Gbm] blues have blown [A] away
Oh, I, oh yeah
[E] I'm bringing you luck so true
But _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Gbm] _ [Bm] that's what I will do
I share [Gbm] with you
I share [A] with you
[Bm] I share [E] with [Gb] _ you _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Gb] Thank you.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ Thank you.
Thank you very much indeed.
You were only 14 [G] when that song was at the top of the charts.
What was it like being so successful at that age?
Well, it was a great thrill.
Walking Back was actually my third hit
while I was still at school
and by that time I was getting pretty blase.
Now, that's not strictly true.
It was a great thrill for me because I was meeting
lots of different stars that I'd idolized
and [F] to me the thrill was making a record
but [Eb] to get in the charts was just like double, double, double.
How did your [G] friends treat you at school?
I mean, were they a bit funny or were they really good about it?
Actually, in general, at least to me
they appeared to treat me exactly the same
except that I was now a bit useful for getting autographs.
Cliff Richard.
Do you think the bands at the time influenced the clothes at the time?
The miniskirts and everything?
Yeah, probably.
That came a bit later actually.
I was very early 60s.
The miniskirts and stuff like that all came around 1965.
_ Probably influenced originally by some of the bands
but the bands in turn influenced by the fashions
from the continent like Paris.
We were very influenced by what was going on over there.
People like Courrèges.
I think we still are a little bit.
Yeah, I think we are.
And we'd do our sort of like cheaper
Carnaby Street type versions of it.
Do you think the music was more exciting in the 60s than it is today?
I don't know.
I suppose some of it, yeah.
I mean some of it was pretty naff.
I mean some of it was great.
But quite honestly that goes for every generation.
You're going to get good and you're going to get the bad, aren't you?
But the good stuff wins through I think.
Do you think this is going to catch on then?
What do you reckon?
Well, yeah.
I don't know.
The kids [D] had mixed opinions about it, didn't they? Yeah.
I think they will.
Anything that's colourful.
I'm sure some of those little kids would never have worn those long
gaudy sort of shorts and stuff that they're wearing now.
No, they're really in aren't they?
Will you be wearing it again, Helen?
I don't know.
I'm having a hard time wearing this stuff today.
I don't know really.
Would you like to be a pop star rather now, start it all over again in the 80s
rather than the 60s?
No, I don't think so.
I don't think that I could come into the business
these days.
It's much more difficult for an up and coming singer now than then.
Would you ever really release Walking Back to Happiness?
Well, we are seriously thinking of doing it actually.
We think you should show us.
We thought an updated version, you reckon?
Definitely.
Alright, well we'll see what happens.
Listen, Hera, thank you very, very much for coming along.
That's a pleasure.
That was brilliant.
Thank you [D] very much.
We'll be back on Thursday and Mark, who's been away filming today,
will be here with us.
And because next Monday is the last Blue Peter of the series
and also Mark's last programme with us,
we're launching one of our special phone video votes
and it is your chance to see the best and the worst of Mark Curry,
all those cooking mistakes, all the driving into the set, whatever you like.
We're looking forward to that.
Details of that coming up on Thursday, so we shall see you then.
But there's just one last thing.
Helen, could we all sing Walking Back to Happiness one more time?
If you promise a singing tune.
Okay, we'll try.
One, [Bb] two, one, two, three, four.
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[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ _
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[Ab] _ Oh yeah, _ [Eb] I shouldn't have gone away.
So I'm [Ab] coming back today, walking back [Fm] to happiness.
[Eb] I do always.
_ [Fm] Don't forget [Bb] the Kleenex tissues on Thursday, then, if it's Mark's last show. _ _ _ _
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