Key: B major
Verse 1
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On Christmas Eve I went a -walkin'
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Out beyond the city gate
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For to fetch a fresh young pheasant
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For my darlin's Christmas plate
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It was snowing oh so quietly
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And the woods were white and soft
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Just the sound of snowflakes falling
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And of footsteps as I walked
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There I saw a fresh young pheasant,
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and I shot and I killed him there
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And I heard a distant church bell
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as the bird fell from the air
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D
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As I held this dy ing body,
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the strangest thought came over me
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God had made this little body
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that I had killed on Christmas Eve.
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All the woods were dark and shadowed,
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and with the light the cold stars gave.
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I said a prayer to God in heaven,
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And covered up the little grave,
Outro 1
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