A Long Christmas Dinner chords by
Carrie Newcomer

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Key: A major•

Verse 1

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The cow made the

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long table for his bride

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June

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When the first child was born,

and they needed more room

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The cow was one of four sons,

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and there was too little farm

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And the railroad had worked,

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so they moved into town

First came

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Emmett and

Claire,

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William and

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Grace

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Round the long table they

all took their place

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Every year they would gather,

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sing carols and hymns

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With canned peaches and short

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cake and four white grins

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But it feels like it's been one long

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Christmas dinner

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One unending prayer,

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one unbroken line

Singing,

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Thou my vision, by day or by night

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All is calm and all is bright

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Eating strawberry jam from

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our victory garden

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June kept giving

Emmett more food than he wanted

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As if she could fill him with

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enough food and faith

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To last him through

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Europe and bring him home safe

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Clara moved back at

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Christmas with her two children

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When her husband ran off with

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a girl who was willing

When

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Grace's small daughter

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offered up her shortcake

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Clara leaned on

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Will's shoulder and covered her face

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But it feels like it's

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been one long

Christmas day

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One unending prayer,

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one unbroken light

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Singing, be thou my vision

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by day or by night

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All is calm and all is bright

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Long ago

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Emmett came home

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Now he carves the ham,

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though since then he's needed a leg brace to stand

He and

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Grace visit often, help

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Mom with yard work

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We still can't believe what

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they're wearing to church

Cousin

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Nan's in

Chicago,

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and she stayed good friends

With

Cousin

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Rose, who's a painter, and lives in

South

Bend

And

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William's boy,

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Michael, is a young handsome rope

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Cruisin' town with an eight -track up

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Abbey

Road

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But it feels like it's been one long

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Christmas dinner

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One blood -ending prayer,

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one of unbroken lines

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Singin' be thou my vision,

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by day or by night

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All is calm and all is bright

There've been so many joys

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and so many cradles

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But there was one who spent

only one year at the table

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It must have been

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Grandma who gathered her clothes

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So she'd have no fear when

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they both passed across

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So I out the canned peaches,

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in honor of

June

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And for

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Michael's grown daughter,

who's coming home soon

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For all that we've lost,

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or we haven't found yet

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Oh, they'll come to the table

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and clasp hands around

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And it feels like it's been one long

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Christmas dinner

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One unending pray er,

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one unbroken light

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Singing, be

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Thou my vision by day or by night

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All is calm and all is bright

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All is calm and all is bright

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The original key of A Long Christmas Dinner by Carrie Newcomer is A major.

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