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Capo 3rd Fret.
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PULL OFFS/HAMMER ONS: These are used sporadically throughout the song.
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Intro: -> -> -> ->
It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me,
"Won't see another one"
And then he sang a song
'The Rare Old Mountain Dew'
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you
Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I had a feeling
That year was for me and you
Said Happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true
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They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind blows right through you
It's no place for the old
When I first took your hand
All your fingers were blue
But I promised you
Broadway was waiting for you
I was handsome, you were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
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The apartment was cluttered
And it smelled like the gutter
Where My sad broken promises
lay with the trash
Every cold dreary night
We'd end up in a fight
And I'd pray as you'd yell
That a train'd rattle past
And the boys of the NYPD choir
still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
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I could have been someone
Said so could anyone
That I took your dreams from you
When you first found me
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you
Its Christmas Eve again
In the drunk tank
I'm an old man now
I won't see another one
So I'll sing a song
And sleep when I am through
Dream of another life
Where all our dreams came true.