C5 F5 Comes the time for Christmas G5 A5 And I really have to ask A5 D5 If this is feeling merry G5 C5 How much longer must it last? C5 F5 I wish a one horse open sleigh G5 A5 Would come carry me away A5 D5 But I've been waiting here all day G5 C5 And one just hasn't come my way C5 F5 Now excuse me if I'm not being reverent G5 A5 But I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me A5 D5 Save me from my righteous doubt G5 C5 as I watch helpless, and everybody sings C5 F5 If it's Chanukah or Kwanza G5 A5 Solstice, harvest or December twenty-fifth A5 D5 Peace on earth to everyone G5 C5 And abundance to everyone you're with C5 F5 La ha da da da da da G5 A5 Da da da da da da da da da da da A5 D5 La da da da da da da da G5 C5 La da da da da da da da da C5 Bb5 Laha da da da da C5 Bb5 Laha da da da da C5 F5 Comes the time for Christmas G5 A5 And as you raise your Yuletide flask A5 D5 There's like this feeling that you carry G5 C5 As if from every Christmas past C5 F5 It's as if each year it grows G5 A5 It's like you feel it in your toes A5 D5 And on and on your carol goes G5 C5 Harvesting love among your woes C5 F5 I want to buy into the benevolent G5 A5 And I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me A5 D5 Make me know what it's about G5 C5 As the longing in me makes me want to sing C5 F5 Noel or Navidad G5 A5 Season celebration or just the end of the year A5 D5 Christmas can mean anything G5 C5 And I mean to keep its hope forever near Repeat la's.... A5 G5 A5 As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love C5 By loves own hand A5 G5 So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth F5 G5 And good will to man C5 F5 At twenty below the winter storm it billows G5 A5 G5 But the fire is so warm inside A5 D5 And the children while nestled in their pillows G5 C5 Dream of St. Nicholas's ride C5 F5 And how the next day they'll get up and they will play G5 A5 G5 In the still falling Christmas snow A5 D5 And together we'll celebrate forever G5 C5 G5 In defiance of the winds that blow C5 F5 My god in heaven now I feel like I'm seven G5 C5 G5 And the spirit calls to me as well A5 D5 As if Christmas had made the winter warmer G5 C5 G5 Made a paradise from what was hell A5 G5 A5 As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love C5 By loves own hand A5 G5 So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth F5 G5 And good will to man....... (verses repeat with harmonica, etc.)
