Matthew West – One Last Christmas (Guitar)

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Verse 1:
             G
It’s the news that no one hopes for,

          Em
Every parent's greatest fear

C
Finding out the child you love so much

                                                  G 
Might not make it through the year

                  G
Now the thought of spending Christmas

      Em
Without him just feels wrong

                         C
They’ve been praying for a miracle,

                                                            G
Now they're praying he can just hold on
Chorus:
       C2                           Em
For one last Christmas, one last time,

 C2                                     D                      
One last season when the world is right,

                 Em
One more telling of the story,

               D                         Em
One more verse of Silent Night,

                       C2                               D
They’d give anything so he could have

                  G
One last Christmas.
Verse 2:
   G
Middle of September

         Em
Still seventy degrees

           C2
Daddy climbs up in the attic
Brings down candles
                                             G
Hangs the lights on all the trees,

                G
Then the neighbors started asking

                Em
And pretty soon word got around

C2
First it was the neighborhood,

                                                              G
Before too long they lit up that whole town. 
Chorus:
       C2                          Em
For one last Christmas, one last time,

C2                                      D
One last season when the world is right,

                  Em
One more telling of the story,

                 D                          Em
One more verse of Silent Night,

                      C2                                D
They’d give anything so he could have

                       G
One last Christmas.
Verse 3:
               G
Twenty-seventh of October,

       Em
His time was wearing thin

                    C2
Friends and family, even strangers

                                                                G
That they didn’t know brought presents in

               G
He was weak but he was smiling

          Em
Like there was nothing even wrong

          C2
They said he wouldn’t make it,

                                                    G
Looks like he got to see it after all
Chorus:
C2                              Em    
One last Christmas, one last time,

C2                                     D
One last season when the world is right,

                 Em
One more telling of the story,

                   D                      Em
One more verse of Silent Night,

                      C2                              D
They’d give anything so he could have

                 G
One last Christmas.