Tabbed by: jaa238

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Capo 3rd Fret.
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CHORDS USED:

[G]  [D]  [A]  [Bm]
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[3]  [2]  [0]  [2]
[3]  [3]  [3]  [3]
[0]  [2]  [3]  [4]
[0]  [0]  [3]  [4]
[2]  [X]  [0]  [2]
[3]  [X]  [X]  [X]

PULL OFFS/HAMMER ONS: These are used sporadically throughout the song.

[G]         [D]        [A]
---         ---        ---
[3]         [2]-[3]    [0]
[3]         [3]        [3]-[4]
[0]         [2]        [3]
[0]         [0]        [3]
[2]-[0]     [X]        [0]
[3]         [X]        [X]




Intro: G -> D -> A -> D -> A

                 D
It was Christmas Eve babe
        G
In the drunk tank
            D
An old man said to me, 
           A
"Won't see another one"
             D
And then he sang a song
               G
'The Rare Old Mountain Dew'
             D
I turned my face away
             A    D   A
And dreamed about you
          D
Got on a lucky one
            G
Came in eighteen to one
            D
I     had a feeling
               A
That year was for me and you
            D
Said Happy Christmas
           G
I love you baby
             D
I can see a better time
        G      A         D
When all our dreams come true

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G, D(hammer on), A, D, A, Bm, G, 
D, A, D, A, D, G, D, A, D
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D                        A
They've got cars big as bars
              Bm       G
They've got rivers of gold
       D
But the wind blows right through you
                      A
It's no place for the old
       D               A
When I first took your hand
         D            G
All your fingers were blue
       D
But I promised you
              A           D
Broadway was waiting for you
                          A
I was handsome, you were pretty
      D           A
Queen of New York City
          D             G
When the band finished playing
      A              D
They howled out for more
             A
Sinatra was swinging,
         D                A
All the drunks they were singing
    D           G
We kissed on a corner
      A                  D
Then danced through the night

   G
The boys of the NYPD choir
      D              Bm
Were singing "Galway Bay"
         D          G         A
And the bells were ringing out
                D
For Christmas day

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D, A, D, G, D, G, A, D
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D                  A
The apartment was cluttered
        D                A
And it smelled like the gutter
          D          G
Where My sad broken promises
 A            D 
lay with the trash
                   A
Every cold dreary night
         D        G
We'd end up in a fight
         D             G
And I'd pray as you'd yell
        A              D
That a train'd rattle past
        G
And the boys of the NYPD choir
       D              Bm
still singing "Galway Bay"
         D          G          A
And the bells were ringing out
                 D
For Christmas day

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D, G, D, A
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              D
I could have been someone
               G
Said so could anyone
                  D
That I took your dreams from you
                A
When you first found me
             D
I kept them with me babe
            G
I put them with my own
             D
Can't make it all alone
              G      A      D   A
I've built my dreams around you 
             D
Its Christmas Eve again
        G
In the drunk tank
        D
I'm an old man now
             A
I won't see another one
         D
So I'll sing a song
               G
And sleep when I am through
          D
Dream of another life
       G       A           D
Where all our dreams came true.