HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

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Song Title
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Writers
Aznavour, Kretzmer
Publisher
CROMWELL MUSIC, INC. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
U.S., CANADA & BRITISH EMP. & COMMONWEALTHOF NATIONS
Themes/Keywords
1960's, Anniversary, Celebration, Endless Love, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Time
Lyrics
I’ve been ready for hours and I’m wearing my best,
Ordered champagne and flow’rs and you’re not even dressed.
Tonight’s a special night to remember with pride,
These twenty happy years since you became my bride!
It is all too absurd, you’re so cross and abrupt,
But I don’t say a word or you’re bound to erupt!
Your peculiar moods I’ve experienced before,
I pour another drink and quietly pace the floor.
It’s a quarter to eight as we fretfully wait
For your little black dress that was promised by six.
Is it just rotten luck when we’re doing the town
That the fates should conspire to let us mortals down?
I have seats for a show and it’s opening night,
My shoes do not fit me and my suit is too tight.
And you sit there and curse an occasional curse,
And I’ve got a headache that’s quickly getting worse!
Happy Anniversary! Happy Anniversary!

They deliver your frock but you’re still in distress,
It was past nine o’clock when I helped you to dress,
I tried to do you up but it wasn’t my day,
For then to fill my cup your zipper stuck half way!
I got all in a sweat, over-anxious and vexed,
Will I ever forget the thing that happened next?
Your dress just came apart with one terrible tear,
Your disappointed cries were more than I could bear!
At eleven o’clock when we got into town,
We arrived at the show but the curtain was down.
I suggested a bite but you wanted to walk,
You had no appetite and no desire to talk!
So we strolled for an hour and the evening was sweet,
And I bought you a flow’r from a man in the street.
We kissed on the sidewalk without reason or rhyme,
And we knew that our love is much stronger than time.
Happy Anniversary! Happy Anniversary! Happy Anniversary!

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