Tabbed by: jaa238
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Capo 3rd Fret.
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CHORDS USED:
[G] [D] [A] [Bm]
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[3] [2] [0] [2]
[3] [3] [3] [3]
[0] [2] [3] [4]
[0] [0] [3] [4]
[2] [X] [0] [2]
[3] [X] [X] [X]
PULL OFFS/HAMMER ONS: These are used sporadically throughout the song.
[G] [D] [A]
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[3] [2]-[3] [0]
[3] [3] [3]-[4]
[0] [2] [3]
[0] [0] [3]
[2]-[0] [X] [0]
[3] [X] [X]
Intro: G -> D -> A -> D -> A
D
It was Christmas Eve babe
G
In the drunk tank
D
An old man said to me,
A
"Won't see another one"
D
And then he sang a song
G
'The Rare Old Mountain Dew'
D
I turned my face away
A D A
And dreamed about you
D
Got on a lucky one
G
Came in eighteen to one
D
I had a feeling
A
That year was for me and you
D
Said Happy Christmas
G
I love you baby
D
I can see a better time
G A D
When all our dreams come true
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G, D(hammer on), A, D, A, Bm, G,
D, A, D, A, D, G, D, A, D
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D A
They've got cars big as bars
Bm G
They've got rivers of gold
D
But the wind blows right through you
A
It's no place for the old
D A
When I first took your hand
D G
All your fingers were blue
D
But I promised you
A D
Broadway was waiting for you
A
I was handsome, you were pretty
D A
Queen of New York City
D G
When the band finished playing
A D
They howled out for more
A
Sinatra was swinging,
D A
All the drunks they were singing
D G
We kissed on a corner
A D
Then danced through the night
G
The boys of the NYPD choir
D Bm
Were singing "Galway Bay"
D G A
And the bells were ringing out
D
For Christmas day
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D, A, D, G, D, G, A, D
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D A
The apartment was cluttered
D A
And it smelled like the gutter
D G
Where My sad broken promises
A D
lay with the trash
A
Every cold dreary night
D G
We'd end up in a fight
D G
And I'd pray as you'd yell
A D
That a train'd rattle past
G
And the boys of the NYPD choir
D Bm
still singing "Galway Bay"
D G A
And the bells were ringing out
D
For Christmas day
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D, G, D, A
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D
I could have been someone
G
Said so could anyone
D
That I took your dreams from you
A
When you first found me
D
I kept them with me babe
G
I put them with my own
D
Can't make it all alone
G A D A
I've built my dreams around you
D
Its Christmas Eve again
G
In the drunk tank
D
I'm an old man now
A
I won't see another one
D
So I'll sing a song
G
And sleep when I am through
D
Dream of another life
G A D
Where all our dreams came true.
