First Christmas

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  • Tuning: Drop D (D A D G B e)
     
    INTRO (its not exactly right but it sounds nice)
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    D A
    e|-2----------2-------5-------3-p-2--------0----------0--------3--------2-p-0-------|
  • B|-------3---------3--------3-----------3--------2----------2--------2------------2-|
    G|----2---------2--------2-----------2--------2----------2--------2------------2----|
    D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  • A|-----------------------------------------0-------0-----------0--------0-----------|
    D|-0-------0----------0-------0-----------------------------------------------------|
     
  • Bm A G D
    e|------------------------------------------------------------2-p-0----|
    B|-3--------2--------0--------2-3--------------------3--------------3--|
  • G|-------4--------2--------0---------0---2-----2-----------2-----------|
    D|----4--------2--------0---------0---------0-----------0--------------|
    A|-2--------0----------------------------------------------------------|
  • D|-------------------5-------------------0--------0-----------0--------|
     
    A Bm
  • e|-0-----------0------0--------------------------------------2----------------|
    B|-----------------------------0-h-2--------3---------3----------------3------|
    G|-------2----------2-------2------------2-------4---------4------4---------4-|
  • D|----2----------2-------2------------2-------4---------4------4---------4----|
    A|-0--------0---------0--------0------------2------2---------2------2---------|
    D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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    Em G Asus4 A D
    e|-0---------0-------0-----------------------------------------------------------------|
  • B|-------------------------------0-------0--------2-3---------3-p-2--------2------3--3-|
    G|------0---------0--------0----------0--------0----------0------------2-------------2-|
    D|---2---------2--------2----------2--------0----------0------------2----------2-----0-|
  • A|------------------------------------------------------------0----------0-------------|
    D|-2------2----------2--------2----------5-------------------------------------------0-|
     
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    D A
    This day a year ago he was rolling in the snow
  • Bm A G D
    With a younger brother in his father's yard
    A Bm
  • Christmas break a time for touching home
    Em A
    The heart of all he'd known and leaving was so hard
  • D A
    Three thousand miles away now he's working Christmas Day
    Bm A G D
  • Making double time for the minding of the store
    A Bm
    Well he'd always said he'd make it on his own
  • Em
    He's spending Christmas Eve alone
    G A D
  • First Christmas away from home
     
    D A
  • She's standing by the train station, panhandling for change
    Bm A G D
    Four more dollars buys a decent meal and a room
  • A Bm
    Looks like the Sally Ann place after all
    Em A
  • In a crowded sleeping hall that echoes like a tomb
    D A
    But it's warm and clean and free and there are worse places to be
  • Bm A G D
    And at least it means no beating from her Dad
    A Bm
  • And if she cries because it's Christmas Day
    Em
    She hopes that it won't show
  • G A D
    First Christmas away from home
     
  • A D
    In the apartment stands a tree and it looks so small and bare
    G D
  • Not like it was meant to be
    A Bm
    The Golden Angel on the top it's not that same old silver star
  • Em
    You wanted for your own
    G A D
  • First Christmas away from home
     
    D A
  • In the morning they get prayers then it's Crafts and tea downstairs
    Bm A G D
    Then another meal back in his little room
  • A Bm Em
    Hoping maybe that the boys will think to phone before the day is gone
    A
  • Well it's best they do it soon
    D A
    When the old girl passed away he fell more apart eyery day
  • Bm A G D
    Each had always kept the other pretty well
    A Bm
  • But the kids all said the nursing home was best
    Em
    Cause he couldn't live alone
  • G A D
    First Christmas away from home
     
  • A
    In the Common Room they've got the biggest tree
    D
  • And it's huge and cold and lifeless
    G D
    Not like it ought to be
  • A
    And the lit-up flashing Santa Claus on top
    Bm Em
  • It's not that same old silver star you once made for your own
    G A D
    First Christmas away from home
  • G A D
    First Christmas away from home
     
  • | h hammer-on
    | p pull-off
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