CF
Comes the time for Christmas
GAm
And I really have to ask
AmDm
If this is feeling merry
GC
How much longer must it last?
CF
I wish a one horse open sleigh
GAm
Would come carry me away
AmDm
But I've been waiting here all day
GC
And one just hasn't come my way
CF
Now excuse me if I'm not being reverent
GAm
But I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me
AmDm
Save me from my righteous doubt
GC
as I watch helpless, and everybody sings
CF
If it's Chanukah or Kwanza
GAm
Solstice, harvest or December twenty-fifth
AmDm
Peace on earth to everyone
GC
And abundance to everyone you're with
CF
La ha da da da da da
GAm
Da da da da da da da da da da da
AmDm
La da da da da da da da
GC
La da da da da da da da da
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Laha da da da da
C Bb69
Laha da da da da
CF
Comes the time for Christmas
GAm
And as you raise your Yuletide flask
AmDm
There's like this feeling that you carry
GC
As if from every Christmas past
CF
It's as if each year it grows
GAm
It's like you feel it in your toes
AmDm
And on and on your carol goes
GC
Harvesting love among your woes
CF
I want to buy into the benevolent
GAm
And I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me
AmDm
Make me know what it's about
GC
As the longing in me makes me want to sing
CF
Noel or Navidad
GAm
Season celebration or just the end of the year
AmDm
Christmas can mean anything
GC
And I mean to keep its hope forever near
Repeat la's....
AmGAm
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love
C
By loves own hand
AmG
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth
FG
And good will to man
CF
At twenty below the winter storm it billows
GAmG
But the fire is so warm inside
AmDm
And the children while nestled in their pillows
GC
Dream of St. Nicholas's ride
CF
And how the next day they'll get up and they will play
GAmG
In the still falling Christmas snow
AmDm
And together we'll celebrate forever
GCG
In defiance of the winds that blow
CF
My god in heaven now I feel like I'm seven
GCG
And the spirit calls to me as well
AmDm
As if Christmas had made the winter warmer
GCG
Made a paradise from what was hell
AmGAm
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love
C
By loves own hand
AmG
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth
FG
And good will to man.......
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.