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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
G, D(hammer on), A, D, A, Bm, G, 
D, A, D, A, D, G, D, A, D --------------------------------
 
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 -----------------------
 
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 -----------
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