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