One Winter?s Night chords by Dr. Dog

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Verse 1
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I come
to you now with my
To commit my soul by my own free will
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For if I   don't dare to climb that hill
Then tell my tale nobody will
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One winter's night, long ago
They were wide awake in a carriage house
And I snuck to the window
like a stable mouse
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The I can't forget and my
hair's gone white
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The things I saw in the flickering light
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One winter's night, long ago
They were all in the kitchen
and the drink did flow
There was
Bing and
Dean on the radio
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The wind did howl, it was ten below
They were safe and sound from
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the ice and snow
And on the windowsill by the candle's glow
I could see an old cat gallery
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A  bowl of cloves and pistachios
A bow on a thistle and some mistletoe
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The twilight winters night, long ago
Once I surveyed the scene,
I made my haste
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Up to the chimney without a trace
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For the sand runs fast at a rapid pace
And it's
Christmas
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Eve, no time to waste
I crept past the kitchen on
the tip of my toes
Straight to the parlor where
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the pine tree grows
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A string of socks lined up in rows
I was followed by that old cat,
Calico
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One winter's night, long ago
There in the house of the family hood
They had nine little babes
and they'd all been good
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I was carrying more than
an old man should
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Nine little kittens made out of wood
As I knelt beneath that
Christmas tree and spread
the gifts out quietly
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All at once, so suddenly,
I found myself with company
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For winter's night, I'm all alone
His presence shocked and bothered me
For I must work in secrecy
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But there he was, all shadowy
His features clipped in mystery
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His voice was low and billowy
As he offered his apology
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Do not fear, he said to me
And pardon my proximity
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My name is
Arthur
Hood, he said
But you can call me
Art instead
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I built the floor upon which we tread
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And I built the roof up over it
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And much like you I am seldom seen,
rarely one to intervene
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I  fix things up and I keep things clean,
catching leaks and mending screens
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And I've always felt that you and
I were of one fate to occupy
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Pleased to meet you eye to eye
And he wished me well
Then he said goodbye
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In the winter's night
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Long ago
It was time to go
For the bells did ring
I had a list of lists
About a thousand things
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My swan song I shall not sing,
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for thee I must leave what the silence brings
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For it's winter's night, come on home
I was heading for the chimney
just as slow as I could
When I saw on the mantel
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carved into the wood
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Six little words that would shiver me good
In loving memory of
Arthur
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Hood
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One winter's night long ago
In loving memory of
Arthur
Hood
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One winter's night long ago
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One winter's night, long ago
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One winter's night, long ago