Shy girl (1963)     (video)

        D         F#m      F                         A

    Shy girl, shy girl, uuh, don't shy away

                D                                      F#m

1. Little shy girl, I'd like to make you my girl,

           G                                                - A                                A7

but each time I try to catch your eye,      you always look away.

                 D                                       F#m

2. Little shy girl, I wish that you were my girl,

        G                                               - A                                     A7

if only you knew, I'm shy like you,        you might not run away.

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    And maybe you might stay (shy girl, stay.)

      F                                                                                 C

+  Ah, and even when you're near you're like a distant star to me.

D#                                                                     A

    How can you be so near, yet seem so very far from me ?

                D                                 F#m

3. Little shy girl, if only you were my girl,

        G                                              - A                                         A7

if only you knew, I'm shy like you,      then maybe you might stay.

                                           G                   A

    Oh, please don't shy away (shy girl, stay)

                                      D        Bm

    I've got so much to say (be my girl) !

                                D             Bm

    Don't go away, shy girl (be my girl !

                                D             Bm

    Don't go away, shy girl (be my girl) !

D  - Bm

    Don't go away, shy girl….

(The Cascades)