Artist: | The Pogues (English) |
User: | Joy Moreton |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
DDUD
A D G
V1 It was Christmas Eve babe, In the drunktank
D A D
An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang
a song
G D
The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away
G A D A
And dreamed about you
D G
V2 Got on a lucky one came in eighteen to one
D A
I've got a feeling this year's for me and you
D G D
So happy Christmas, I love you baby I can see a better
time
G A D
When all our dreams come true (much faster now)
D D D A D G A D
Middle A
D A Bm G
They've got cars big as bars they've got rivers of gold
D D D A
But the wind goes right through you it's no place for the old
D Bm D G
When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve
D D A D
promised me Broadway was waiting for me
Middle B
D A D A
You were handsome you were pretty Queen of New York City
D G A D
When the band finished playing They howled out for more
D D A
Sinatra was swinging The drunks they were singing
D G A D
We kissed on the corner Then danced through the night
Chorus Slower
G G D Bm
The boys of the NYPD choir were singing 'Galway Bay'
D G A D
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas day
Instru break = play all middle A ie
D A Bm G
D D D A
D Bm D G
D D A D
middle C still DDUD
D D D A
You're a bum You're a punk You're an old slut on junk
D G A D D D
Living there almost dead on a drip In that bed You scum bag you
maggot
D A D G
You cheap lousy faggot Happy Christmas your arse
A D
I pray God It's our last
chorus
G G D Bm
The boys of the NYPD choir were singing 'Galway Bay'
D G A D
And the bells were ringing out for Christmas day
Instru break first 2 lines of V3 A D D G D D A
V3 slower
A D D G
I could have been someone Well, So could anyone
D D A
You took my dreams from me when I first found you
D G
I kept them with me babe I put them with my own
D G A D
Can't make it all alone I've built my dreams around you
Chorus
G G D Bm
The boys of the NYPD choir Still Singing `Galway Bay`
D G A D
And the bells are ringing Out for Christmas Day
Outro instrumental first two lines of verse 3
A D D G D D A x3