Key: G major
Verse 1
G
C
Truce, call a truce,
Em
Am
Christmas morning, 1914,
D
G
What would the good Lord say?
D
Em
Stop all the shelling and the shooting
Kamerad, Freundschaft
D
G
Let's all be friends for a day
In the man -made hell
Cm
G
in the mines and modern trenches
The men from the Rhine
and the Frenchies
D
G
B
But the very next day
Am
D
There was gunfire, gassing and slaughter
C#
D
B
As we blasted the hum
A
D
With machine guns, shelling and mortars
E
D
G
Abdim
With the Christmas angels calling
E
A
D
But the dream turned sour
D
A
D
G
And we made it all up in the morning
D
Em
Stop all the bitching and backbiting
send in the bailiffs
D
G
This one day of the year
D
Em
stop all the sackings and the stealing
or cut off someone's pension,
D
G
and spoil all this Christmas cheer?
Well, there's a couple of days
Cm
G
Who oppress and arrest an d charge us
D
our fathers
G
B
Em
But the very next day it's back to the fray
Am
D
And setting our homes in order
C#
B
Bashing lesbian mothers and
A
D
Disowning gay sons and daughters
E
D
Abdim
With the Christmas angels calling
E
A
D
But the dream turns out
G
E
in a matter of hours
A
D
G
And they make it all up in the morning.
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