Christy Moore – Fairytale Of New York (Guitar Intro Tab)
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Transcribed from his live performance on BBC's Later...with Jools Holland
Listen to the song for when to alternate bass notes of your chords (mostly C to C/G). The walk* from
C to G is marked between each verse and is as follows:
[Chords]
C* G
e|--0-----------3--|
B|--1-----------0--|
G|--0--------0--0--|
D|--2--2--3-----0--|
A|--3-----------2--|
E|--3-----------3--|[Spoken intro]
C C/G One night maybe 10 or 20 or 30 years ago - I can never remember which - but,
I heard a man from Tipperary singin' this song.
C C/G I asked him to sing it again and again and again until I had the words...
And then I started singin' it meself
[Verse 1]
C F It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank C G G7 An old man said, "Son, I won't see another one" C F And then he sang a song, the Rare Old Mountain Dew C F C G C* G I turned my eyes away, and thought about you
[Verse 2]
C F I got on a lucky one, came in at 18 to 1 C G G7 I've got a feeling, this year's for me and you C F Happy Christmas, how I love you baby C There's going to be good times F C G C* G When all our dreams come true
[Verse 3]
C They've got cars big as bars F They've got rivers of gold C But the wind blows right through you G It's no place for the old C G When I first took your hand on a cold Christmas Eve C F G C I told you that Broadway was waiting for me
[Verse 4]
C G You were handsome and pretty, queen of New York city C F G C When the band finished playing, the crowd howled for more C Sinatra was singing, and all the crowd they were swinging F G C We kissed on the corner and we danced round the floor
[Chorus]
F C Am And the boys from the N-Y-P-D choir were singin' Galway Bay C F G C And the bells were ringin' out on Christmas Day
[Break]
F All-de-da-la-la-lo C All-dall-dall-de-da-lo F G F G All-de-dall-dall-do
[Verse 5]
C F I could have been someone, and so could anyone C G I took my dreams from you when I first met you C F I kept them with me, babe, and I put them with my own C Can't make it all alone F G C* G I've built my dreams around you
[Verse 6]
C F Well you're a bum, you're a punk, you're an aul hoor on junk C G Layin' there on the drip nearly dead in the bed C You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot F G C Happy Christmas me arse, I would rather be dead...
[Chorus]
F C Am And the boys from the N-Y-P-D choir were singin' Galway Bay C F G C And the bells were ringin' out on Christmas Day
[Outro]
F C Oh I love ya baby, I've got a feelin F C G This year's for me and you C F Happy Christmas, how I love you baby C There's going to be good times F C G C* G C When all our dreams come through
[Spoken outro]
C C/G So Happy Christmas, I love ya baby.
I said, Shane MacGowan from Puckane in the county Tipperary one grand Friday morning and I,
C C/G I took him by the hand and I,
I gazed into his Tipperary eyes and I,
C C/G I kissed him on the lips and I said, "Hey Shane, I love you too baby, okay"
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| * follow tablature to walk from C to G
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