C                  F              
Comes the time for Christmas 
      G              Am            
And I really have to ask 
   Am              Dm               
If this is feeling merry 
         G              C         
How much longer must it last? 
 
         C              F         
I wish a one horse open sleigh 
           G        Am             
Would come carry me away 
              Am               Dm   
But I've been waiting here all day 
             G              C     
And one just hasn't come my way 
 
    C                          F  
Now excuse me if I'm not being reverent 
          G                       Am 
But I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me 
Am              Dm                  
Save me from my righteous doubt  
     G                   C 
as I watch helpless, and everybody sings 
 
        C           F             
If it's Chanukah or Kwanza 
G                       Am           
Solstice, harvest or December twenty-fifth 
Am                Dm               
Peace on earth to everyone 
    G            C                
And abundance to everyone you're with 
    
C             F                
La ha da da da da da 
      G                 Am          
Da da da da da da da da da da da 
Am                Dm                
La da da da da da da da 
      G                 C         
La da da da da da da da da 
C          Bb6/9                                
Laha da da da da 
C          Bb6/9                                
Laha da da da da 
  
  
C                  F             
Comes the time for Christmas 
           G                   Am  
And as you raise your Yuletide flask 
                  Am               Dm 
There's like this feeling that you carry 
           G               C      
As if from every Christmas past 
                    
        C               F 
It's as if each year it grows 
              G               Am                            
It's like you feel it in your toes 
    Am             Dm                            
And on and on your carol goes 
           G               C      
Harvesting love among your woes 
                 
          C                F 
I want to buy into the benevolent 
          G                       Am 
And I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me 
Am                Dm                
Make me know what it's about 
       G             C            
As the longing in me makes me want to sing 
       
C       F                   
Noel or Navidad 
G                     Am           
Season celebration or just the end of the year 
Am                 Dm               
Christmas can mean anything 
      G                C          
And I mean to keep its hope forever near 
 
  
Repeat la's.... 
 
        Am                      G       Am 
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love 
             C                   
By loves own hand 
            Am              G      
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth 
F                G                
And good will to man 
  
          C                         F 
At twenty below the winter storm it billows 
        G               Am      G        
But the fire is so warm inside 
        Am                              Dm 
And the children while nestled in their pillows 
         G              C         
Dream of St. Nicholas's ride 
 
  
            C                                F 
And how the next day they'll get up and they will play 
       G                       Am   G 
In the still falling Christmas snow 
    Am                          Dm          
And together we'll celebrate forever 
      G                       C     G  
In defiance of the winds that blow 
 
          C                          F 
My god in heaven now I feel like I'm seven 
        G                     C    G   
And the spirit calls to me as well 
      Am                            Dm                               
As if Christmas had made the winter warmer 
       G                      C    G   
Made a paradise from what was hell 
                        
        Am              G               Am 
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love 
             C                   
By loves own hand 
            Am              G      
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth 
F                G                           
And good will to man....... 
  
(verses repeat with harmonica, etc.) 
                               
 
Chords: 
G (320003) 
C (x32010) 
Am (x02210) 
Dm (xx0231) 
F (133211) 
Bb6/9 (x1001x) 
 
 
by Blues Traveller 
from "A Very Special Christmas III"