AGAAsus4DGGmaj7ADADAD
It was Christmas Eve, babe
AG
In the drunk tank
AAsus4D
An old man said to me
GAA7
"Won't see another one"
AD
And then he sang a song
DAG
'The Rare Old Mountain Dew'
GAAsus4D
I turned my face away
GAD
And dreamed about you
AD
Got on a lucky one
AG
Came in eighteen-to-one
AAsus4D
I've got a feeling
GAA7
This year's for me and you
AD
So, Happy Christmas
DAG
I love you, baby
AAsus4D
I can see a better time
GAD
When all our dreams come true
DA
They've got cars big as bars
DG
They've got rivers of gold
DA
But the wind goes right through you
BmA
It's no place for the old
DBm
When you first took my hand
DG
On a cold Christmas Eve
DA
You promised me Broadway
GD
Was waiting for me
D
"You were handsome!" "You were pretty
A
Queen of New York City"
DG
When the band finished playing
AD
They howled out for more
D
Sinatra was swinging
A
All the drunks, they were singing
DG
And we kissed on a corner
AD
Then danced through the night
ChorusGBmA
And the boys of the NYPD choir
DBm
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
DGA7
And the bells were ringing out
D
For Christmas day
D
"You're a bum, you're a punk"
A
"You're an old cut on junk
DG
Lying there almost dead
AD
On a drip in that bed"
D
"You scumbag, you maggot
A
You cheap lousy [?]
DG
Maybe Christmas, you mother
AD
I pray God it's our last"
GBmA
And the boys of the NYPD choir
DBm
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
DGA7
And the bells were ringing out
D
For Christmas day
D
"I could have been someone"
G
"Well, so could anyone
AAsus4D
You took my dreams from me
GAA7
When I first found you"
D
"I took them with me, babe
G
I kept them with my own
AD
Can't make it all alone
DGAD
I've built my dreams around you"
GBmA
And the boys of the NYPD choir
DBm
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
DGA7
And the bells were ringing out
D
For Christmas day
DGD
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
GDAA7
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
DGD
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
GDAA7
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
GAD
Laughing all the way
D
Bells on bobtail ring
G
Making spirits bright
A
What fun it is to ride and sing
GADA sleighing song tonight
DGD
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
GDAA7
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
DGD
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
GDAA7D
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
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.