Happy Anniversary 
Titles In Other Languages:
Bon Anniversaire; Buon Anniversario; Qué Buen Aniversario
Composer(s): Charles Aznavour; Herbert Kretzmer
Performer(s): Charles Aznavour



I’ve been ready for hours and I’m wearing my best
Ordered champagne and flowers and you’re not even dressed
Tonight’s a special night to remember with pride
These twenty happy years since you became my bride
It is all too absurd; you’re so cross and abrupt
But I don’t say a word or you’re bound to erupt
Your peculiar moods I’ve experienced before
So I’ll pour another drink and quietly pace the floor
It’s a quarter to eight as we fretfully wait 
For your little black dress; that was promised by six
Is it just rotten luck when we’re doing the town
That the fates should conspire to let us mortals down
I have seats for a show and it’s opening night
My shoes do not fit me and my suit is too tight
And you sit there and curse, an occasional curse 
And I’ve got a headache that’s quickly getting worse
Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary
They deliver your frock but you’re still in distress
It was past nine o clock when I helped you to dress
I tried to do you up but it wasn’t my day
For then to fill my cup your zipper stuck half way
I got all in a sweat, over anxious and vexed
Will I ever forget the thing that happened next
Your dress came apart with one terrible tear
Your disappointed cries were more than I could bear
At eleven at last, when we got into town
We arrived at the show but the curtain was down
I suggested a bite. No, no you wanted to walk
You had no appetite and no desire to talk
So we strolled for an hour and the evening was sweet
And I bought you a flower from a man in the street
And we kissed on the sidewalk without reason or rhyme
And we knew that our love is stronger than time
Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary