Key: Eb major
Verse 1
D#m
A#m
D#m
A#m
G#m
D#m
A#m
D#m
A#m
G#m
D#m
Holly made the rules
Holly
G#m
E#dim
She laid down all the laws
F#
G#m
Then broke the one she made
F#
Most folks would be afraid
B
D#m
to play the games that
G#m
Holly played
D#m
When she was seventeen,
G#m
E#dim
E#m
F#
G#m
she ran away from home as fast as she could run
F#
C#sus4
said home was just no fun there was
D#m
E
an awful lot of doing to be done
F#
C#sus4
Ooh, holly on a cloud in the sky
F#
C#sus4
Way above the cloud flying high
F#
C#sus4
Ooh, holly on a cloud in the sky
F#
Yeah, way above the
C#sus4
cloud flying high
D#m
Holly made the scene,
G#m
E#m
E#dim
F#
G#m
she's gone to every place she never should have been
F#
B
She was hanging in, couldn't tell her
D#m
F#
D#m
F#
G#m
nothin' been
D#m
D#sus4
G#m
Strangers in the night have paid
E#dim
F#
a handsome price to sleep in
G#m
Holly's bed
F#
C#sus4
She couldn't see that far ahead to know that
D#m
E
she would become one of the living dead
F#
C#sus4
Holy on a cloud in the sky
F#
Way above the cloud that I'm
C#sus4
F#
C#sus4
F#
C#sus4
high
D#m
Honey was confused,
G#m
E#dim
F#
G#m
she did some things that even she could not explain
F#
Oh, now she's so in pain
C#sus4
D#m
The devil runnin' through her vein
E
F#
C#sus4
F#
C#sus4
s
How could
F#
E
Holly make such a great mistake
F#
To think that she could beat the
Rat in just
E
one playing?
It never happened.
F#
C#sus4
I'll lay on a cloud in the sky,
F#
C#sus4
way above the cloud, high above the sky
F#
C#sus4
I'll lay on a cloud in the sky,
F#
life is dancing high
C#sus4
Life is dancing,
F#
C#sus4
life is dancing, life is dancing
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