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