Tabbed by: jaa238
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Capo 3rd Fret.
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CHORDS USED:
GDABm
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3202
3333
0234
0034
2X02
3XXX
PULL OFFS/HAMMER ONS: These are used sporadically throughout the song.
GDA
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3230
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3334
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023
003
20X0
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3XX
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
ADA
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
GAD
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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DA
They've got cars big as bars
BmG
They've got rivers of gold
D
But the wind blows right through you
A
It's no place for the old
DA
When I first took your hand
DG
All your fingers were blue
D
But I promised you
AD
Broadway was waiting for you
A
I was handsome, you were pretty
DA
Queen of New York City
DG
When the band finished playing
AD
They howled out for more
A
Sinatra was swinging,
DA
All the drunks they were singing
DG
We kissed on a corner
AD
Then danced through the night
G
The boys of the NYPD choir
DBm
Were singing "Galway Bay"
DGA
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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DA
The apartment was cluttered
DA
And it smelled like the gutter
DG
Where My sad broken promises
AD
lay with the trash
A
Every cold dreary night
DG
We'd end up in a fight
DG
And I'd pray as you'd yell
AD
That a train'd rattle past
G
And the boys of the NYPD choir
DBm
still singing "Galway Bay"
DGA
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
GADA
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
GAD
Where all our dreams came true.