I Want to Be Happy

[Chorus]
I want to be happy
But I won't be happy
'Til I make you happy too

[Verse 1]
Life's really worth living
When we are mirth-giving
Why can't I give some to you?

[Verse 2]
When skies are gray
And you say you are blue
I'll send the sun smiling through

[Chorus]
I want to be happy
But I won't be happy
'Til I make you happy too

[Verse 3]
I'm a very ordinary man
Trying to work out life's happy plan
Doing unto others as I'd like to have them
Doing unto me

[Verse 4]
Now when I find a very lonely soul
To be kind becomes my only goal
I feel so much better when I tell 'em my philosophy

[Chorus]
Well, I want to be happy
But I won't be happy
'Til I make you happy too

[Verse 5]
A life's really worth living
When we are mirth-giving
Why can't I give some to you?

[Verse 6]
When skies are gray
And you say you are blue
I'll send the sun smiling through

[Chorus]
I want to be happy
But I won't be happy
'Til I make you happy too
Happy too
Happy too

[Outro]
Come on, have a ball, it's 1971
That's right