First Christmas

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  • Time: 3/4 (sync) Tenor: D Bass: C?
    Key: D
     
  • INTRO: 1, 6m, 57, 1
     
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  • This day a year a-go, he was rolling in the snow
    6m 5 4 1 *
    With a younger brother in his father's yard
  • 5 * 6m * 2m
    Christmas break, a time for touching home, the heart of all he'd known
    * 5 4 5
  • And leaving was so hard_________
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    Three thousand miles a-way, now he's . working Christmas Day
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    Making double time for the minding of the store
    5 * 6m
  • Well he always said, he'd make it on his own
    * 2m *
    He's spending Christmas Eve a-lone
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    First Christmas a-way from home
     
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    She's standing by the train station, .. pan-handling for change
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  • Four more dollars buys a decent meal and a room
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    Looks like the Sally Ann place after all, in a crowded sleeping hall
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    That echoes like a tomb_______
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  • But it's warm and clean and free, and there are worse places to be
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    At least it means no beating from her Dad
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    And if she cries be-cause it's Christmas Day
    * 2m *
  • She hopes that it won't show
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    First Christmas a-way from home
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    BRIDGE ONE:
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    ..... In the a-partment stands a tree, and it looks so small and bare
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  • Not like it was meant to be____, ..... Golden angel on the top
    * 6m * 2m
    It's not that same old silver star, you wanted for your own
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    First Christmas a-way from home (INSTRUMENTAL)
     
  • NOTES:
    - Rogers: tunes DADGBE, strums B 43 B2 43
     
  • FIRST CHRISTMAS PAGE TWO
     
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  • In the morning, they get prayers, then it's crafts and tea down-stairs
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    Then a-nother meal back in his little room
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    Hoping maybe that "the boys" will think to phone be-fore the day is gone
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  • Well, it's best they do it soon________
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    When the "old girl" passed a-way, he fell a-part more every day
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    Each had always kept the other pretty well
    5 * 6m
  • But the kids all said the nursing home was best
    * 2m *
    Cause he couldn't live a-lone
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    First Christmas a-way from home
     
  • BRIDGE TWO:
    5 * 5/4
    In the common room they've got the biggest tree /
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    / And it's huge and cold and lifeless
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  • Not like it ought to be____, and the lit-up flashing Santa Claus on top
    * 6m * *
    It's not that same old silver star, you once made for your own
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    First Christmas a-way from home
    SYMBOLS:
  • - Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord
    - Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure
    - Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure
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    CHORDS (Number System):
    - Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
  • - Key of C: C D E F G A B
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