Chords for Barbara Chandler - It Hurts To Be Sixteen (1963)

_ _ [Eb] _ Rattatat, [Cm] Rattatat, _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ Rattatat, [Cm] Rattatat
The [Bb] kids [Fm] are singing now [Bb] Rattatat
_ [D] Happy birthday sweet [Bb] sixteen _
And so [Eb] I smile and hope [Cm] Rattatat
_ [Bb] My tears will not be [Cm] seen
_ [Ab] Because I'm much too old to cry
Too old to cry
[Gm] No, too young to cry
_ [C] _ _
_ _ [F] _ Lonely, it [Bb] hurts to be [Eb] sixteen
_ Rattatat, [Cm] Rattatat, _ _ _ _ _ _ Rattatat
[G] Don't think that you're grown up [Bb] Rattatat, Rattatat
[Fm] When you become [Bb] sixteen _
Because [Eb] like me you'll see [Cm] Rattatat, Rattatat
[Eb] You're only [Gm] in [Cm] between _
They'll [Ab] say that you're too old for toys
Too old for toys
[Dm] So you're much too young for
[C] _ _
_ _ [F] Tell you, [Bb] it hurts to be [Eb] _ sixteen _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] And I _ [Gm] can't believe we're too [Cm] young to start
We're driving us apart
[F] We're finished before [Bb] we begin
And [G] I [Fm] can't keep smiling through
[Bb] Rattatat _
_ [D] And later sweet [Bb] sixteen _
This [Eb] party's over now
[Cm] _ _
And [Eb] you know [Bb] what [Cm] I mean
For [Ab] those of you who have shown up
So I'll turn on [Dm] back next year when I'm [C] _ _
done
But [F] now we've grown old
[Bb] Because it hurts [Eb] to be sixteen _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Gm] We're too [Cm] young to start
They're breaking us apart
[Ab] We're finished [Fm] before [Bb] we begin
And I [Bb] can't [Fm] keep smiling through [Bb] Rattatat
And _ [Fm] later sweet [Bb] sixteen _
This party's over now
[Cm] _ _
_ [Eb] And you know [Gm] what [Cm] I mean
To [Ab] those of you who have shown up
So I'll turn on [Gm] back next year when I'm done
But [C] _ [F] now we've grown old
[Bb] Because it hurts [Eb] to be sixteen
_ [Cm] It's _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
over
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _