Come Back Christmas chords by Allen Ginsberg
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Verse 1
(C major) This is Christmas (B major) 1971,
(C major) going to St. Mark's Poetry Project
(F major) for the mass Christmas reading
that all (C major) the poets partook of.
In the church I wrote a blues song
to show the other poets what I could
do with song form, new music.
Come back, Christmas.
Christmas, come back,
(B major) New York City died last year. (E flat major)
(F major) New Year, come back,
big city died (C major) last year. (B major)
Dead on her big (F sharp major) stone feet,
(B major) no light bulb shed one (C major) tear.
(B major) Oh, Mr. Santa Claus,
how come you're still comin' round?
Histor (F major) ic reindeer flyin' the
same old (B major) ground
Anyway, you North Pole (F sharp major) people
sure (B major) make a pretty sound
Bring me a (C major) big mass transport
Garbage disposal sys (B major) tem, too
Clean my (F major) po lice force so my
Boyfriends won't sniff so much glue
(B major) And (F sharp major) I'll start giving presents
And thank you for coming (B major) in blue
Last year I thought I'll never leave
Manhattan alive
Year (F major) be fore brought up my vomit
on River (B major) side Drive
Next year (F sharp major) if I'm here,
I think I'll bring (B major) my beehive
Honey, oh honey, I know (C major) I'm makin' (B major) no sense,
no, not at all
(F major) Sweet molasses,
forgive my anti -war (B major) grunts
Sugar, baby,
(F sharp major) this city stole my po (E flat major) etry pant (B major) s
Merry Christmas,
don't take too much heart dope
Yes, (F major) Happy New Year,
don't hang yourself with (B major) a rope
Manhattan reborn,
(F sharp major) after I gave (B major) up (C major) all hope (B major)
Radiator cockroach,
waving your horns at the wall (E flat major) (B major) (F major) (B major)
Go tell (F sharp major) Mr. Bedbug
he'd better stay out (B major) there in the hall. (C major) (F major)
And then I went out after that
(G major) with my (F major) guitar -playing boyfriend
to (G major) McDougal Street
to (F major) (F sharp major) (B major) taste the scene there
and hear what the loc
(E flat major) al young guitarists were doing,
and (F major) went to Feen John's (E flat major)
downstairs
in the basement on MacDougall Street,
and they asked us if we
wanted to do a set
among the amateur musicians
that were coming up and (E flat major) playing for free on
their loudspeaker (E flat major) sys tem
in the stone room basement downstairs.
So I said yeah,
and while we were waiting to (E flat major) go on and do a turn,
(E flat major) me and Gary, I wrote the next words. (G flat major)
(A flat major) (A major) (G sharp major) (D flat major)
(B major) (G flat major) (A flat major) (E flat major) (A flat major)
(A flat major) wanted to be a minstrel (E flat major) man (B major)
(A flat major) Dic (B major) tated (D flat major) epics in books
Inside (G flat major) a Volkswagen (D flat major) van (A flat major)
(E flat major) Gray hair on my head
I'm singin' the best that (A flat major) I can
(A flat major) Oh, Mr. Garbage Man
Don't take me away, no
Not yet, (A flat major) no (D flat major) Mr. Garbageman,
(B major) don't dump truck me
like an old cigar (D flat major) ette
(A flat major) Not (E flat major) till I pick out a song
you'll never for (A flat major) get
I (A flat major) tried singing mantras,
I tried (G sharp major) singing out William Blake
I (C sharp major) tried (B major) mantra chanting,
I tried (C sharp major) tuning (B major) out old (D sharp major) Holy (G sharp major) Blake
Now (D sharp major) I'll sing him the blues
if good God gives me a (G sharp major) break
Back in the basement,
guitars (D sharp major) ringing all around (G sharp major)
Screaming (C sharp major) in the basement,
gui (B minor) tars ring me (D major) all (G sharp major) around
I (G sharp major) can (D sharp major) only play three chords,
I can still will sing my way
underground (G sharp major)
Listen here children
I'm an old creep full of desire
(B major) I got a (D major) big mouth
(C sharp major) It's because my heart is (B major) on (A flat major) fire
If (A flat major) (E flat major) I can get hot,
you could sing like an angel choir.
That was January 1972.
Come Back Christmas
Allen Ginsberg
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