Christmas

C                  F
Comes the time for Christmas
      G              Am
And I really have to ask
   Am              Dm
If this is feeling merry
         G              C
How much longer must it last?

         C              F
I wish a one horse open sleigh
           G        Am
Would come carry me away
              Am               Dm
But I've been waiting here all day
             G              C
And one just hasn't come my way

    C                          F
Now excuse me if I'm not being reverent
          G                       Am
But I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me
Am              Dm
Save me from my righteous doubt
     G                   C
as I watch helpless, and everybody sings

        C           F
If it's Chanukah or Kwanza
G                       Am
Solstice, harvest or December twenty-fifth
Am                Dm
Peace on earth to everyone
    G            C
And abundance to everyone you're with

C             F
La ha da da da da da
      G                 Am
Da da da da da da da da da da da
Am                Dm
La da da da da da da da
      G                 C
La da da da da da da da da
C          Bb6/9
Laha da da da da
C          Bb6/9
Laha da da da da


C                  F
Comes the time for Christmas
           G                   Am
And as you raise your Yuletide flask
                  Am               Dm
There's like this feeling that you carry
           G               C
As if from every Christmas past

        C               F
It's as if each year it grows
              G               Am
It's like you feel it in your toes
    Am             Dm
And on and on your carol goes
           G               C
Harvesting love among your woes

          C                F
I want to buy into the benevolent
          G                       Am
And I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me
Am                Dm
Make me know what it's about
       G             C
As the longing in me makes me want to sing

C       F
Noel or Navidad
G                     Am
Season celebration or just the end of the year
Am                 Dm
Christmas can mean anything
      G                C
And I mean to keep its hope forever near


Repeat la's....

        Am                      G       Am
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love
             C
By loves own hand
            Am              G
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth
F                G
And good will to man

          C                         F
At twenty below the winter storm it billows
        G               Am      G
But the fire is so warm inside
        Am                              Dm
And the children while nestled in their pillows
         G              C
Dream of St. Nicholas's ride


            C                                F
And how the next day they'll get up and they will play
       G                       Am   G
In the still falling Christmas snow
    Am                          Dm
And together we'll celebrate forever
      G                       C     G
In defiance of the winds that blow

          C                          F
My god in heaven now I feel like I'm seven
        G                     C    G
And the spirit calls to me as well
      Am                            Dm
As if Christmas had made the winter warmer
       G                      C    G
Made a paradise from what was hell

        Am              G               Am
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love
             C
By loves own hand
            Am              G
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth
F                G
And good will to man.......

(verses repeat with harmonica, etc.)


Chords:
G (320003)
C (x32010)
Am (x02210)
Dm (xx0231)
F (133211)
Bb6/9 (x1001x)