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Holiday chords by 
James Mcmurtry 
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Key: G major•BPM: 81
Intro 1
G
D
C
G
D
C
Verse 1
G
D
The in- laws are waiting
C
the games have begun
Verse 2
G
D
The cell phone keeps ringing
G
C
?don?t answer it hon?
Verse 3
G
The whole thing?s arranged
C
just to aggravate Dad
Verse 4
G
D
And it?s am ateur day
C
on the old super slab
Am
The
Verse 5
G
kids are strapped down
C
like a half load of pipe
Verse 6
G
All safe in their car seats
Gm
C
they fuss and they gripe
Verse 7
G
C
Well you can?t hardly blame ?em it must be a
G
C
bitchCounting the crosses off down in the ditch
Verse 8
G
This one?s got flowers,
C
this one?s got a wreath
Verse 9
G
Gm
G
This one?s got a name
Gm
C
painted down underneath
Verse 10
G
Was the road all iced up,
C
were they going too fast
Verse 11
G
Gm
G
Here?s five in a circle left
C
Am
C
from the last hol iday
Am
G
D
Verse 12
C
G
D
G
Holiday
C
D
G
D
C
G
D
G
D
Verse 13
C
G
There?s a three-
D
C
trailer rig just a throwin? up spray
Verse 14
G
D
C
Not legal to run on this kind of a day
Verse 15
G
But god damn the smokies
C
and the four wheelers too
Verse 16
G
D
G
Stay offa my bumpers or the same
C
goes for you
Verse 17
G
There?ll be none for him
C
He that wants it the most
Verse 18
G
D
C
As he hauls it on out to the Oregon coast
Verse 19
G
D
C
No turkey no gravy no
Am
Zinfandel wine
Verse 20
G
You just stay over right and
C
we?ll get along fine
Am
He?s miss
Verse 21
G
ing the football,
C
missing the fun
Verse 22
G
He?d play with the
C
grandkids but he?s off on a run
Verse 23
G
And some hat?s on the
D
C
radio singing his song
Verse 24
G
But it don?t make a damn
Verse 25
C
He?s in for a long holiday
G
Verse 26
C
G
Holiday
C
G
C
D
G
D
Verse 27
C
Now
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D
granny she?s yelling
G
She?s
Verse 28
C
ready to eat
Verse 29
G
She?s havin? conniptions
D
?Cause they won?t
Verse 30
C
take their seats
Verse 31
G
But she?s got ?em all gathered
C
now under one roof
Verse 32
G
With her camcorder loaded
Verse 33
C
She?s gonna get proof
Verse 34
G
But do you have to wear that
Verse 35
C
Well I just don?t see why
Verse 36
G
Gm
C
Please pass the potatoesAw eat
shit and die
Verse 37
G
Did you hear about Ellen,
C
she?s leaving, you know
Verse 38
G
How ?bout those Packers,
D
G
C
think it?ll snow?
Verse 39
G
D
And the minute it?s over
C
they?ll scatter like quail
Verse 40
G
C
Off down the freeway in the teeth of a gale
Verse 41
G
D
Silent and shattered And
C
numb to the core
Verse 42
G
They count themselves lucky
D
They
Verse 43
Am
C
got through one more holiday
G
Verse 44
C
Am
G
Holiday
C
G
C
G
D
Verse 45
C
G
The highway
D
patrolman
G
He stands
Verse 46
C
in the rain
Verse 47
G
D
He just lets it run down to
C
soften the stain
Verse 48
G
Of the blood on his pant leg
Verse 49
C
From working that wreck
Verse 50
G
D
And he won?t forget it
G
In time
Verse 51
C
for the next holiday
G
D
G
C
G
D
G
D
Verse 52
C
G
D
C
Departing Chicago at 9:52
Verse 53
G
Gm
C
In clean desert camo all baggy and loose
Verse 54
G
D
Sits an Iowa Guardsman
C
alone by the gate
Verse 55
G
The place sure looked different,
C
in 1968
Verse 56
G
D
When he traveled with mom,
C
first time on a plane
Verse 57
G
D
To visit some kin,
C
he?s forgotten their names
Verse 58
G
But he remembers the soldiers,
C
G
C
still in their teensIn their spit polished boots and their pressed army greens
Verse 59
G
Gm
D
With the creases so sharp,
C
and their faces so smooth
Verse 60
G
D
But their eyes looked so heavy,
C
he wondered how they could move
Verse 61
Gm
D
Now he?s got that same look,
C
like his insides are black
Verse 62
G
D
C
He?s in his mid forties and he has to go backAnd he
G
C
can?t even smoke while he waits for his plane
Verse 63
Gm
D
The uniform?s different,
C
but the mission remains
Verse 64
Gm
G
To do like they tell you,
C
don?t make a fuss
Verse 65
G
Why?s not an issue,
C
so don?t think too much
Am
You just do what
Verse 66
G
you have to,
D
G
C
shut up and drive
Verse 67
G
D
If you come apart later,
C
well at least you?re alive
Am
You can get
Verse 68
G
you some help,
C
you can deal with it then
Verse 69
G
And life will be better,
C
?til it happens again
G
D
C
Verse 70
G
C
?Cause there?s something inside us that won?t let us beIn
G
C
stalks through our days ?til it?s too dark to see
Verse 71
G
And it?s damn near as deadly
C
as Texans on ice
Verse 72
G
Lord don?t they beat all
Gm
Y?all
Verse 73
C
G
D
C
D
G
have a nice hol iday
Outro 1
C
G
D
C
G
D
C
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