Chords:
x32013
x20033
x02213
320003
131213
022003
* 320033
x33211
x32010
In an old city bar
That's never too far
From the places that gather
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From the dreams that have been
In the safety of night
By an old neon light
It beckons to strangers
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And they always come in
And the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
The music was low
And the night, Christmas Eve
And here was the danger
Even with strangers
Inside of this night
It's easier to believe
Then the door opened wide
And a child came inside
That no one in the bar
Had seen there before
And he asked did we know
That outside in the snow
That someone was lost
Standing outside our door
And the bartender gazed
Through the smoke and the haze
Through the window and ice
To that corner streetlight
Where standing alone
By a broken pay phone
Was a girl the child said
Could no longer get home
And the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
The bartender turned and said,
"Not that I care.
But how would you know this?"
The child said, "I've noticed,
If one could be home,
They'd be already there."
Then the bartender came out
From behind the bar
In all of his life
He was never that far
And he did something else
That he thought no one saw
And he took all the cash
From the register drawer
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Then he followed the child
To the girl across the street
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And we watched from the bar
As they started to speak
Then he called for a cab
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And he said, "J.F.K."
Put the girl in the cab
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Then the cab drove away
And we saw in his hands
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That the cash was all gone
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From the light that she had wished upon
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
Then he looked for the child
The child wasn't there
Just the wind and the snow
Waltzing dreams through the air
And he walked back inside
Somehow different I think
For the rest of the night
No one paid for a drink
And the cynics will say
That some neighborhood kid
Wondered in on some bums
In the world where they hid
But they werent there
So they couldnt see
By an old neon star
On that night Christmas Eve
When the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
In case you should wonder
In case you should care
Why we on our own
Never went home
On that night of all nights
We were already there