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