Key: A
Introduction:
A G A A4 D G G7+ A D
A
Verse
D A D
It was Christmas Eve, babe
A G
In the drunk tank
A A4 D
An old man said to me
G A A7
"Won't see another one"
A D
And then he sang a song
D A G
'The Rare Old Mountain Dew'
G A A4 D
I turned my face away
G A D
And dreamed about you
Verse
A D
Got on a lucky one
A G
Came in eighteen-to-one
A A4 D
I've got a feeling
G A A7
This year's for me and you
A D
So, Happy Christmas
D A G
I love you, baby
A A4 D
I can see a better time
G A D
When all our dreams come true
Interlude
A G A A4 D A
D A G A D
Verse
D A
They've got cars big as bars
D G
They've got rivers of gold
D A
But the wind goes right through you
Bm A
It's no place for the old
D Bm
When you first took my hand
D G
On a cold Christmas Eve
D A
You promised me Broadway
G D
Was waiting for me
Verse
D
"You were handsome!" "You were pretty
A
Queen of New York City"
D G
When the band finished playing
A D
They howled out for more
D
Sinatra was swinging
A
All the drunks, they were singing
D G
And we kissed on a corner
A D
Then danced through the night
G Bm A
And the boys of the NYPD choir
D Bm
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
D G A7
And the bells were ringing out
D
For Christmas day
Interlude
D A D
D G D
D A D
D A G D
Verse
D
"You're a bum, you're a punk"
A
"You're an old cut on junk
D G
Lying there almost dead
A D
On a drip in that bed"
D
"You scumbag, you maggot
A
You cheap lousy ?
D G
Maybe Christmas, you mother
A D
I pray God it's our last"
G Bm A
And the boys of the NYPD choir
D Bm
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
D G A7
And the bells were ringing out
D
For Christmas day
Interlude
D G D
D A
Verse
D
"I could have been someone"
G
"Well, so could anyone
A A4 D
You took my dreams from me
G A A7
When I first found you"
D
"I took them with me, babe
G
I kept them with my own
A D
Can't make it all alone
D G A D
I've built my dreams around you"
G Bm A
And the boys of the NYPD choir
D Bm
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
D G A7
And the bells were ringing out
D
For Christmas day
Interlude
D G D
D A
D G
A A4 D
G A A7
D G
D A
D
Outro
D G D
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
G D A A7
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
D G D
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
G D A A7
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
D
Dashing through the snow
G
On a one horse open sleigh
A
O'er the fields we go
G A D
Laughing all the way
D
Bells on bobtail ring
G
Making spirits bright
A
What fun it is to ride and sing
G A D
A sleighing song tonight
D G D
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
G D A A7
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
D G D
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
G D A A7 D
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey