Sit there,
count your fin gers.
What else can you (Ebm9)do?
Oh girl, you’re (Gb13)through.
Sit there,
(Db)count your lit tle (Db)fin gers,
un ha py lit tle girl (Ab)blue.
Sit there,
oh, and count your fin (C7)gers.
Hon ey, what (Fmaj7)else,
what else can you do?
Hon ey I (Bb)know how you feel
Hon ey, I know how you feel, you’re (Gm)through.
Sit right back down.
And I want you to (C)count,
count your (Bb)fin gers,
my un (Bb)hap py,
un (Bbmaj7)luck y,
but my (Bb)lit tle girl,
my lit tle girl (F)blue.
Well, sit there
to (Am)day,
(Bb)hon ey, now go on,
want you to count those lit tle (C)rain drops,
I know they’ve been (Fmaj7)fall ing down,
all a round you,
and ev ’ry thing you have is gon na work (Bb)out on.
An y thing you’ll ev er want to lean on, ev ’ry (Am)thing you’re ev er gon na want to (Gm)lean, hon ey, gon na tell you right now,
it’s gon na (F)feel just like
those (Am)rain drops do
when they’re (Gm)fall ing down,
(Dm)fall ing all (C)’round,
(Bb)all
a round you.
(CN.C.)No use, old girl,
you might as well
sur (Fm7)ren der.
(CN.C.)’Cause your hopes
are get ting slen der
and (G)slen der.
Why
won’t some bod y (F7)send
(Bbm)her
(Db)ten (Eb)der blue (CN.C.)boy...
...to (Bbm)cheer up
lit tle (Db)girl
blue.
This page shows “Little Girl Blue” by Janis Joplin in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of Db at 60 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.