Key: G major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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list grows shorter every year
Em
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things just aren't the way they were before
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C
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My Christmas list grows shorter every year it's
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al most not like Christmas anymore
I guess it's 'cause I came from
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We used to swap presents with aunts,
uncles and cousins
Course most of the presents just
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came from the five and dime
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I
Verse 2
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remember how I used to get such
a big kick out of wrappin'
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cin' it under the tree
and said that I was born
With a little too much of the spir
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it of Christmas in me
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Verse 3
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I left home a few years ago now and it seemed
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Em
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Christmas' seem sorta strange
somewhere in the service
And he never was the kind
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to stay in touch
Verse 4
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I ha ha remember last
Christmas I really went wild
I bought them just about everything
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And I remember on the Christmas
Eve night I took 'em upon my lap
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And I told them the story of Jesus
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eight tiny reindeer
Verse 5
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All I wish now is the spirit of Christmas could have
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lingered throughout the whole year
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You see my wife left me back in September the
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kids are with her I don't know where
I'd love to just send
them a small Christmas card
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does care
love the best
Verse 6
lookin' at this big sheet of paper
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I don't even have one single address
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My Christmas list grows shorter every year
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oh what I'd give to just go back in time
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My Christmas list grows shorter every year the
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only name that's left this year is mine
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG D C Em
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