Who Sang Glad to be Unhappy? Paul Desmond
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Release information
Release Date: 2002-10-8
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bossa Nova/Cool Jazz
length: 5:44
Some other versions of "Glad to be Unhappy"
- Song TitleRelease TitleYearArtist
- Glad to Be UnhappyRodgers and Hart Album1940Lee Wiley
- Glad to Be UnhappyStarring Sammy Davis Jr.1955Sammy Davis Jr.
- Glad to Be UnhappyLady in Satin1958Billie Holiday
- Glad to Be UnhappyChris Connor Sings Ballads of the Sad Café1959Chris Connor
- Glad to Be UnhappyOutward Bound1960Eric Dolphy Quintet
- Glad to Be UnhappyGlad to Be Unhappy1967The Mamas & the Papas
- Glad to Be UnhappyBarbra Streisand … and Other Musical Instruments1973Barbra Streisand
- Glad to be UnhappyGreat American Legends: Lena Horne - Stormy Lady1991Lena Horne
- Glad to Be UnhappyLucky to Be Me1994Wesla Whitfield
- Glad to Be UnhappyOutward Bound1997Eric Dolphy
- Glad to Be UnhappySnowbound / The Lonely Hours1997Sarah Vaughan
- Glad to Be UnhappyStandard Time, Volume 5: The Midnight Blues1998Wynton Marsalis
- Glad to Be UnhappyThe Magic of Diahann Carroll2005Diahann Carroll
- Glad to Be UnhappyBe My Guest Tonight2007Étienne Daho
- Glad to Be UnhappyOn the Other Side2007Tierney Sutton
- Glad to Be UnhappyBrass Laced With Strings2015Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
- Glad to Be UnhappyBobby Short Celebrates Rodgers & HartBobby Short
- Glad To Be UnhappyThree Classic Albums & MoreFrank Sinatra
Lyrics
Look at yourself
If you had the sense of humor
You would laugh to beat the band
Look at yourself
Do you still believe the rumor
That romance is simply grand
Since you took it on the chin
You have lost that toothpaste grin
My mental state is all a jumble
I sit around and sadly mumble
Fools rush in, so here I am
Very glad to be unhappy
I can't win
But here am I
More than glad to be unhappy
Unrequited love's a bore
And I've got it pretty bad
But for someone you adore
It's a pleasure to be sad
Like a straying baby lamb
With no mammy and no pappy
I'm so unhappy
But oh, so glad
Unrequited love's a bore
And I've got it pretty bad
But for someone you adore
It's a pleasure to be sad
Like a straying baby lamb
With no mammy and no pappy
I'm so unhappy
But oh, so glad
If you had the sense of humor
You would laugh to beat the band
Look at yourself
Do you still believe the rumor
That romance is simply grand
Since you took it on the chin
You have lost that toothpaste grin
My mental state is all a jumble
I sit around and sadly mumble
Fools rush in, so here I am
Very glad to be unhappy
I can't win
But here am I
More than glad to be unhappy
Unrequited love's a bore
And I've got it pretty bad
But for someone you adore
It's a pleasure to be sad
Like a straying baby lamb
With no mammy and no pappy
I'm so unhappy
But oh, so glad
Unrequited love's a bore
And I've got it pretty bad
But for someone you adore
It's a pleasure to be sad
Like a straying baby lamb
With no mammy and no pappy
I'm so unhappy
But oh, so glad