Misc Christmas – Christmas Eve In St Johns (Guitar)

Key
-

Auto-scroll

Chords

(Amaj7 can also be played as 002224) (Aadd4 is x00220) (the three consecutive Ds in the second verse are not mistaken) [Intro] A D F#m7 Add4 [Verse 1]
         A            Amaj7      D       E
It's the night before Christmas, seven o'clock,

  D         E       D              E
A rusty old dragger ties up at the dock;

      A             Amaj7           D           E
She's rigged out in lights from her stem to her stern,

   D               E          A
To spend Christmas Eve in St. John's.
[Verse 2]
        A           Amaj7  D          E
All the sailors are tired, lonely and bored,

  D            D            D               E
A piece of dry land is what they're longing for;

          A          Amaj7   D            E
But their hearts are away on some foreign shore,

     D         E          A
This Christmas Eve in St. John's.
[Chorus]
Bm   E       Bm        E
Boas Festas, Feliz Navidad,

     D       E         D             E
In a faraway country a young girl is sad;

         A            Amaj7          Bm         E
It's the night before Christmas, she misses her dad,

         D         E          A
Spending Christmas Eve in St. John's.
[Verse 3]
         A         Amaj7              D          E
Like the Magi that travelled from the East long ago,

D         E          D               E
Up to the hilltop to mass they'd all go;

      A       Amaj7  D              E
Their Lady of Fatima waits for them there,

     D         E          A
This Christmas Eve in St. John's.
[verse 4]
     A            Amaj7       D              E
They hear the old carols sung when they were young,

     D               E            D            E
They don't sound the same sung in this foreign tongue;

      A          Amaj7            D             E
Their hearts are warmed but their eyes tell the tale,

     D         E          A
This Christmas Eve in St. John's.
[Chorus]
Bm   E       Bm        E
Boas Festas, Feliz Navidad,

     D       E         D             E
In a faraway country a young girl is sad;

         A            Amaj7          Bm         E
It's the night before Christmas, she misses her dad,

         D         E          A
Spending Christmas Eve in St. John's.
[verse 5]
A             Amaj7     D           E
Back to their ships the sailors all go,

D                E            D          E
To a crèche by a porthole and new fallen snow;

    A         Amaj7       D              E
And soon it's back to the fish they must go,

     D         E          A
This Christmas Eve in St. John's.

Bm   E       Bm        E
Boas Festas, Feliz Navidad,

     D       E         D             E
In a faraway country a young girl is sad;

         A            Amaj7          Bm         E
It's the night before Christmas, she misses her dad,

         D         E          A
Spending Christmas Eve in St. John's.
[Outro]
         D         E          A
Spending Christmas Eve in St. John’s