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Thread #15337   Message #3256038
Posted By: Leadfingers
13-Nov-11 - 05:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehrer)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Tom Lehrer)
(C)Christmas time is (A)here, by golly
(D)Disapproval (G)would be folly
(C)Deck the (C7)halls with (F)hunks of (Fm)holly
(C)Fill the cup and (D7)don't say (G)"when"

(C)Kill the turkeys, (A)ducks and chickens
(D)Mix the punch, drag (G)out the Dickens
(C)Even (C7)though the (F)prospect (Fm)sickens
(C)Brother, (F)here we (G)go (C)again

On Christmas Day you (F)can't get sore
Your fellow man you (C)must adore
There's time to rob him (D)all the more
The (G)other three hundred and (G7)sixty-four

(C)Relations, sparing (A)no expense'll
(D)Send some useless (G)old utensil
(C)Or a (C7)matching (F)pen and (Fm)pencil
(C)"Just the thing I (D)need, how (G)nice"

It (C)doesn't matter (A)how sincere it
(D)Is, nor how heart(G)felt the spirit
(C)Senti(C7)ment will (F)not en(Fm)dear it
(C)What's im)F)portant (G)is the (C)price

"Hark the Herald Tribune (G)sings
Advertising wondrous (C)things..."

"God (Am)rest ye merry merchants
May you make the Yuletide pay..."

(C)"Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go (G)out and (C)buy..."

So (C)let the raucous (A)sleighbells jingle
(D)Hail our dear old (G)friend Kris Kringle
(C)Driving his (C7)reindeer (F)across the (Fm)sky
Don't (C)stand underneath when they (G)fly (C)by