Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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The Night Before Christmas
T 'was the night before Christmas
when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung
soon would be there.
The children were nestled
all snug in their beds
while visions of sugarplums
danced in their heads,
and Mama in her kerchief
and I in my cap
had just settled our brains
for a long winter's nap.
When out on the lawn
there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to
see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
tore open the shutters
and threw up the sash.
The moon and the breast
to objects below.
When what to my wondering
eyes should appear,
but a miniature sleigh
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and eight tiny reindeer.
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With a little old driver so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it
must be St. Nick.
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More rapid than eagles his courses they came,
and he whistled and shouted
and called them by name.
Now Dasher, now Dancer,
now Prancer and Vixen,
on Comet, on Cupid,
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on Donner and Blitzen.
To the top of the porch,
to the top of the wall,
now dash away,
dash away, dash away all,
as dry leaves that before the
wild hurricane fly,
when they meet with an obstacle,
mount to the sky.
So up to the housetop
the courses they flew,
with a sleigh full of toys,
and St. Nicholas too.
And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof,
the prancing and
pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head
and was turning around,
down the chimney
St. Nicholas came with a bound.
and his clothes were all tarnished
with ashes and soot.
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A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
and he looked like a peddler,
just opening his pack.
His cheeks were like roses,
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his nose like a cherry.
His droll little mouth
was drawn up like a bow,
and the bead on his chin
was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe
he held tight in his teeth,
and the smoke had encircled his
head like a wreath.
that shook when he laughed,
like a bowl full of jelly.
He was chubby and plump,
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a right jolly old elf,
and I laughed when I
soon gave me to know I
had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word,
then turned with a jerk,
and laying his finger aside of his nose,
up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh,
and away they all flew
like the down of a thistle.
as he drove out of sight,
Happy Christmas to all,
and to all a good night.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb F E Fm Db...
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