Key: C
Introduction:
C Am F G C Am F G C F G
1. Try to imagine a house that's not a home,
C F G
try to imagine a Christmas all alone.
C Am F G
That's where I'll be, since you left me my tears could melt the snow.
C Am F G
What can I do without you ? I've got no place, no place to go.
C Am F G
It'll be lonely this Christmas, without you to hold,
C Am F G
it'll be lonely this Christmas, lonely and cold.
C Am F G C F C G
It'll be cold, so cold, without you to hold, this Christmas.
C F G
2. Each time I remember the day you went away,
C F G
and how I would listen to the things you have to say.
C Am F G
I just break down, as I look around and the only things I see,
C Am F G
are emptiness and loneliness, and an unlit Christmas tree. + REFR.
C F G
2. (spoken:) You remember last year, when you and I were together.
C F G
We never thought there'd be an end, and I remember looking at you then.
C Am
And I remember thinking that Christmas must have been made for us,
F G C Am
'cos darlin', this is the time that you really, you really need love.
F G C A
When it means so very, very much. It'll be lonely this Christmas
F G C Am F G
Without you to hold, it'll be lonely this Christmas, lonely and cold.
C
+ REFRAIN + Merry Christmas, darling, wherever you are! (Mud)