Shy Boy:Lou Christie.
#119 on BB Hot 100 (Bubbling Under) on
ROULETTE Records in 1963.
(One of his first.)

INTRO:
Eb   Cm   Fm            Bb
Shy, shy, shy-yi-yi-yi, boy.
Eb   Cm   Ab            Bb  
Shy, shy, shy-yi-yi-yi, boy.
Eb           Fm  Bb  B   Eb  Cm
Shy boy, oh, nooooooooo..shy boy, 
    Fm   Bb
oh, noooooooooo..

#1.
    Eb   Cm  Fm        Ab        Eb          Cm
Too looooooonnnnnng, I wanted to walk like a man, 
Ab           Bb 
ask for your hand.
     Eb       Fm     Gm     Eb  Cm                Fm  Bb
And, oh, nooooooooow that I careeeee, I stand and stare..
 Eb           Cm           Fm      Ab     Bb     
(cause I'm a, shy boy, oh, nooooo, ohhhh, oooooo.. 
Eb  Cm   Fm     Ab  Bb
shy boy, whoah, no..oooo.

#2.
    Eb   Cm    Fm                   Bb      Eb
And nooooooooooooooow, and now that love is here, words 
   Fm     Ab  Bb
disappear....
   Eb       Fm             Ab       Eb     Cm
To looooooooove, I laughed at other lovers.
      Eb    Fm                 Bb
But I wanna change, I've gotta change.
             Cm   Eb   Fm        Ab Bb
(Cause I'm a shy, shy, shy-yi-yi-yi boy.)
 Eb   Cm   Fm        Bb
(Shy, shy, shy-yi-yi-yi boy.)

BRIDGE:
Ab        Bb        Eb                  Cm  Bb
Now, that love is beginning..(ya-da-da, shy boy.)
Ab            Bb               Eb               Cm
Please be the first to take my hand..(ya-da-da, shy boy.)
Ab      Bb           Eb                F
I'm so afraid you'll walk away..you'll turn me down, you're 
                        Bb        B     E       Db Dbm
gonna make me a clown..(Without a chanceeeeee)..to prove I'm not 
F#m      B        Dbm   E   F#  B
a    shy boy, shy boy,  oh, no.

OUTRO:
    E                 Dbm              F#m B      
I'm only (a shy-yi-yi-boy) a shy-yi-yi boy....(oh, don't wanna 
      E   Dbm  A   B
be) a shy boy (shy boy)..(Fade.)



A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.