Key: Bb minor
Verse 1
Am
T 'was the night before Christmas
D
and all through the house
F
not a creature was stirring,
D
not even a mouse.
Eb
The stockings were hung by
the chimney with care
F
Eb
in hopes that St. Nich
olas soon would be there.
D
F
The children were nestled
all snug in their beds
Eb
Bb
while vis ions of sugar plums
F
danced in their heads.
C
E
An d Mama in her kerchief
Eb
Bm
and I in my cap
D
Had just settled down for a
C
F
long winter's nap.
G#m
When out on the lawn
F#
G
there rose such a clatter,
D
I sprang from my bed to see what was
the matter.
C#
G
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
G#m
Tore open the shutters and
F
threw up the sash.
D
The moon on the crest
of the new -fallen snow
Gave a luster of midday
Abm
Eb
to objects below.
F#
F
when what to my wondering
Eb
eyes should appear
G
but a miniature sleigh
C
Eb
and a tiny reindeer
Bb
G
with a little old driver so lively and quick
Ab
Db
Eb
I knew in a moment
D
it must be st. Nick
more rapid than Eagles his cours
Eb
G#m
G
ers they came and he whistled and shouted
and called him by name now
D
F
Dasher now dancer now prancer and vixen on Comet,
G
on Cu pid, on Donner and Blitzen,
to the top of the porch,
F
to the top of the wall,
C
Eb
now dash away, dash away, dash away all.
G
As dry leaves that before
D
the wild hurricane fly
when they meet with an obstacle
mount to the sky,
C
Eb
so up to the housetop
F
the coursers they flew with a sleigh
E
full of toys
F
and Saint Nicholas too.
Eb
G
An d then in a twinkling
F#m
I heard on the roof
A
the prancing and pawing
D
of each little hoof,
F
A
as I drew in my head
F#m
F
and was turning around,
A
down the chimney
Eb
D
St. Nicholas came
Eb
with a bound.
Abm
Am
He was dressed all in fur,
C#
Eb
from his head to his foot,
E
G#m
and his clothes were all tar nished
F
with ashes and soot,
C
F
a bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
D
and he looked like a peddler
F
just opening his pack.
G
F
His eyes how they twinkled,
C
F
his dimples how merry.
His cheeks were like roses,
his nose like a cherry.
Bb
D
His droll little mouth
Eb
was drawn up like a bow,
A
and the beard of his chin
F
was as white as the snow.
Am
F
The stump of a pipe
he held tight in his teeth,
Am
F
an d the smoke it en
circled his head like a wreath.
Eb
Bb
He had broad face
Fm
F
Eb
and a little round belly that shook when he
D
laughed like a bowl full of jelly.
Am
F
He was chubby an d plump,
Eb
a right jolly old elf,
F
C
and I laughed when I saw
Am
him in spite of myself.
D
A wink of his eye
E
D
and a twist of his head
F#
soon gave me to know
C#
Eb
I had nothing to dread.
F#
He spoke not a word,
but went straight to his work
F
G
D
an d filled all the stockings then
Eb
and turned with a jerk,
G#
and laying his finger aside of his nose,
Am
and giving a nod,
up the chimney he rose.
F
He sprang to his sleigh,
Bb
to his team gave a whistle,
F
and away they all flew
like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim,
C
as he drove out of sight,
Happy Christmas to all,
and to all a good night.
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