Getting Ready for Christmas Day chords by 
Paul Simon 
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Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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From early in November to the last week of December
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I got money mat ters weighing me down
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Oh, the mu sic may be merry,
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but it's only tempor ary
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I know Santa Claus is comin' to town
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In the days I work my day job,
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in the nights I work my night
But it all comes down to
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workin' man's pay
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Gettin' ready, I'm gettin' ready
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Ready for Christmas Day
Verse 2
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(Gettin' ready for Christmas
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Day)
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(And let me tell you, namely,
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the undertaker)
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(He's getting ready for your
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body)
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(Not only that, the jailer,
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he's getting ready for you)
(Christmas Day, hmm?)
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(And not only the jail er, but the lawyer,
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the po lice force)
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(Now getting ready for
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Christmas Day
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(And I want you to bear it in mind)
Verse 3
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I got a nephew in Ir aq,
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it's his third time back
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But it's endin' up the way it began
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With the luck of a beginner,
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he'll be eatin' turkey dinner
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On some mountain top in Pakistan
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Gettin' ready
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Oh we're gettin' ready
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For the power and the glory
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And the story of the Christmas Day
Verse 4
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(Getting ready,
for Christmas)
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(Done made it up in your mind that I'm going,
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New York, Philadelphia, Chicago)
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(I'm going, on a trip, getting ready,
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for Christmas Day)
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(But when Christmas come,
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nobody knows where you'll be)
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(You might ask me,
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I may be layin' in some lonesome grave)
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(Getting ready, for Christ mas
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Day)
Verse 5
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Getting ready
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Oh we're getting ready
For the power and the glory
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And the story of the Christmas Day
Yes, we're getting ready
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(Getting
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ready, ready for
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your prayers)
(I'm going and see my relatives
in a distant land)
(Getting ready,
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getting ready for Christ mas Day)
Verse 7
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If I could tell my Mom and Dad that
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the things we never had
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Never mattered, we were always okay
Getting ready, oh ready
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Ready for Christmas Day
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Ready, getting ready
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For the power and the glory
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And the story of the Christmas
Outro 1
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