Key: G minor
Verse 1
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This is Louis Satchmo Armstrong
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From all over the world
Verse 2
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Not a creature was stirring
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Not even a mouse
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Verse 3
The stockings were hung by the
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In hopes that St. Nicholas
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The children were nestled
Verse 4
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And mama in her 'kerchief,
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for a long winter's nap
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When out on the lawn there arose
such a clatter
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I sprang from the bed to see
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what was the matter
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G
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Tore open the shutters and threw up
Verse 5
The moon on the breast of the new- fallen snow
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to objects below
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When what to my wondering
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But a miniature sleigh,
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and eight tiny reindeer
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With a little old driver, so lively and
Verse 6
Em
quick
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I knew in a moment it must be
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St. Nick
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ers they came
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and called them by name
Verse 7
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Now, dasher! Now, dancer! Now,
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Prancer and Vixen!
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On, Comet! On, Cupid! On,
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Donder and Blitzen!
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To the top of the porch! To the top
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of the wall!
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Gm
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Now dash away! Dash away!
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F#
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Dash away all!
Verse 8
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C
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As dry leaves that before the wild
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Am
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hurricane fly
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When they meet with an obstacle,
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C
So up to the housetop,
Gm
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the coursers they flew
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C
With the sleigh full of Toys,
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An d then, in a twinkle,
Verse 9
C
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I heard on the roof
C
Em
The prancing and the pawing
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Edim
Gm
As I drew my head
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and was turning around
Verse 10
Bb
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Down the chimney,
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St. Nicholas came with a bound
Em
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He was dressed all in fur,
from his head to his foot
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C
nished with ashes and soot
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Gm
A bundle of Toys he had flun
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g on his back
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And he looked like a peddler
Verse 11
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his dimples how merry
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his nose like a cherry
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His droll little mouth was drawn
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up like a bow
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Gm
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Gm
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And the beard on his chin was as white
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Bb
Gm
as the snow
Verse 12
G
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he held
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Bb
tight in his teeth
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He had a broad face and a
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little round belly
That shook when he laughed,
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like a bowl of jelly
Verse 13
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He was chubby and plump,
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a right jolly old elf
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in spite of myself
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A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
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Soon gave me to know that I had
nothing to dread
Verse 14
but went
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turned with a jerk
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And giving a nod,
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up the chimney he rose
Verse 15
He sprang to his sleigh,
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to his team he gave a whistle
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down of a thistle
But I heard him exclaim,
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Em
ere he drove out of sight
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and to all a good night!"
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A very good night
And there goes your
Satchmo Armstrong
Thank you
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