Easy to be happy
Liam Rickard, 2015
I wrote this one in Betws-y-Coed in 2015 (or 2016?) when I was feeling down in the dumps!
Chords: i v iv v
Eb Bb Ab Bb (capo on 1st fret: D A G A)
Alt version: i vi- ii- v
Lyrics
Do exercise eat healthy food and maybe take up mindfulness or yoga
Stop wallowing in self defeat and look up pleasing pictures of pagodas
Sometimes you feel really grim like an old crumbly wall you need a plaster
Well drink a cup of herbal tea and hopefully feel less defeated after
Its easy to be happy when you're happy but when you're sad its harder x2
Inside you feel broken like a plate on the cold stone floor of your dungeon
Your heart is beating like a drug fueled rave inside a cave into which you're plunging
Beside a lake you see the shapes of all the people that at some point you insulted, accidentally!
and out from the darkness come all your past mistakes and back in time you're catapulted, ONE TWO THREE FOUR...
Its easy to be happy when you're happy but when you're sad its harder x2
Neud ymarfer corff a bwyta’n iach,
Efallai cymrwch fyny mindfulness neu yoga
Paid gorwedd ar y llawr yn crio
a sbio a lluniau prydferth o pagodas
Cymraeg: Mae'n hawdd I bod yn hapus pan ti'n hapus ond pan ti'n drist mae'n anoddach
Italian: È facile essere felici se sei felice, ma più difficile se sei triste
Spanish: Es fácil ser feliz cuando eres feliz, pero difícil cuando estás triste
French: C'est facile d'être content quand t’es content, mais quand t’es triste c'est plus dur
portugues: É fácil ser feliz quando está feliz, mais difícil quando está triste
Flemmish: tis makkelijk com blij te zijn als te blij bent, maar als je triest bent is't lastig
German: Froh zu sein ist einfach wenn du froh bist, doch traurig ist es schwerer
Swedish: Det är enkelt att va lycklig om man är lycklig Är man ledsen Är det svårere
Finnish: On helppoo olla iloinen kun oot iloinen, mut kun et oo sen on vaikeampaa
Slovenian: Lahko je biti srecen ko si srecen žalostnim je tezje
Hindi: Khushi hai kaafi aasaan, jab tum ho khush, par jab udaas hai vo mushkil
Persian: خیلی راحته بخندی وقتی شادی، ولی وقتی غم داری سخته
Algerian: Ch‘hal sahla tkoun khelwi ki tkoun khelwi, ki tez‘af chwiya s3iba
Sudanese: sahil te con mubsut wenta mubsut, be sah ab wenta hasnan
Mandingue: Akassoneyaalé ning kontani kouwo laata kontaano kang, Bari aka diming né ning akolyata
your language…
Eb Bb Ab Bb (capo on 1st fret: D A G A)
Alt version: i vi- ii- v
Lyrics
Do exercise eat healthy food and maybe take up mindfulness or yoga
Stop wallowing in self defeat and look up pleasing pictures of pagodas
Sometimes you feel really grim like an old crumbly wall you need a plaster
Well drink a cup of herbal tea and hopefully feel less defeated after
Its easy to be happy when you're happy but when you're sad its harder x2
Inside you feel broken like a plate on the cold stone floor of your dungeon
Your heart is beating like a drug fueled rave inside a cave into which you're plunging
Beside a lake you see the shapes of all the people that at some point you insulted, accidentally!
and out from the darkness come all your past mistakes and back in time you're catapulted, ONE TWO THREE FOUR...
Its easy to be happy when you're happy but when you're sad its harder x2
Neud ymarfer corff a bwyta’n iach,
Efallai cymrwch fyny mindfulness neu yoga
Paid gorwedd ar y llawr yn crio
a sbio a lluniau prydferth o pagodas
Cymraeg: Mae'n hawdd I bod yn hapus pan ti'n hapus ond pan ti'n drist mae'n anoddach
Italian: È facile essere felici se sei felice, ma più difficile se sei triste
Spanish: Es fácil ser feliz cuando eres feliz, pero difícil cuando estás triste
French: C'est facile d'être content quand t’es content, mais quand t’es triste c'est plus dur
portugues: É fácil ser feliz quando está feliz, mais difícil quando está triste
Flemmish: tis makkelijk com blij te zijn als te blij bent, maar als je triest bent is't lastig
German: Froh zu sein ist einfach wenn du froh bist, doch traurig ist es schwerer
Swedish: Det är enkelt att va lycklig om man är lycklig Är man ledsen Är det svårere
Finnish: On helppoo olla iloinen kun oot iloinen, mut kun et oo sen on vaikeampaa
Slovenian: Lahko je biti srecen ko si srecen žalostnim je tezje
Hindi: Khushi hai kaafi aasaan, jab tum ho khush, par jab udaas hai vo mushkil
Persian: خیلی راحته بخندی وقتی شادی، ولی وقتی غم داری سخته
Algerian: Ch‘hal sahla tkoun khelwi ki tkoun khelwi, ki tez‘af chwiya s3iba
Sudanese: sahil te con mubsut wenta mubsut, be sah ab wenta hasnan
Mandingue: Akassoneyaalé ning kontani kouwo laata kontaano kang, Bari aka diming né ning akolyata
your language…
Live in Pazin, Istria (Croatia) with Jonas, Lauren, Vilma & friends from the Trad-In-Etno Mini-Folk-Marathon 2018
Lockdown version (2020) (click the image)
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Live at Balabam, London (2018) (click the image)
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'Lounge version' recorded in Italy, 2018, video by Kawoon Khamoosh & Liam Rickard (click on the image)
