Key: C major
Verse 1
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
You ever heard tell of
Lee
G#
B
Christmas?
A#
E
Got me to rheumatism.
B
A
B
All swole up and ug lified.
E
B
D
E
Fm
me.
E
B
Man's got to finish what he starts,
F#
E
B
it's the only way to finish off your life.
C#
E
A
How'd you like to be a 64 year old with arthritis,
E
D
B
Legs lookin' like some treasure map.
And you wonder,
how come I'd wanna take your horse
G#
B
to get me over the border?
Christmas.
Lee
E
B
Christmas.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
That name
A
B
Christmas tells you something, don't it?
Yeah, there's a few know
D
B
I've passed this way.
I got a mighty fine proposition for you two,
G#
B
join up with, a real toke with you and the boy.
G
D
You ever tell him what he's got to look forward to,
or does he know already?
A
D
Oh sure, you got the emancipation procrastination
John
Brown's body?
so both sides can shoot at you?
E
B
You're smart, you do, like
Old
Smoke.
Honorous black man ever lived.
Made the
A
B
James boys look like small potatoes.
You heard
Old
Smoke?
B
He had a price on his head and he wasn't satisfied,
so he had to make it grow.
A
Old
No man, white or black.
When
Park askin', you got anything to say?
Old
A
E
Smokey answer, I come here to die,
not to make speeches.
A
E
hm, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Hard times missin'.
Edim
Smoke!
E
A
Smoke, I thought he been another one
Interlude 1
E
A
E
A
E
D
E
D
E
Verse 2
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