Give Myself A Party:Don Gibson.
#5 US Country and #46 on BB Hot 100
on RCA Records in 1958.
INTRO: G C D G
#1.
Em G C D
I've got a lot of memories to last me
G
the rest of my life.
G C D
So, if you don't want to love me, baby,
G
that'll be all right.
G C D
I'm gonna take all the lovin' that I
G
have for you.
G C D
Gonna take all the loneliness, sit right
G
down with the blues.
CHORUS:
G C
I'm gonna give myself a party, and serve
G
old memories.
G Em A
Give myself a party, think of how it used
D
to be.
C G
Remember all the happiness that we once knew.
G Em D
I'm gonna give myself a party, just me and
G C G
the blues..(just me and the blues.)
INTERLUDE: G C D G
#2.
Em G C D G
A few of your love letters, a photograph or two.
G C D C
A gift you gave on my birthday with words of, I
G
love you.
G C
There's a lots of things to think about, when
D G
you're happy, feeling blue.
G C D
So, I'm gonna take all the loneliness, sit right
G
down with the blues.
CHORUS:
G C
I'm gonna give myself a party, and serve
G
old memories.
G Em A
Give myself a party, think of how it used
D
to be.
C G
Remember all the happiness that we once knew.
G Em D
I'm gonna give myself a party, just me and
G C G
the blues..(just me and the blues.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.