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