(I didn't make this. I'm just uploading it here so I can use the transposing feature.
This was transcribed by Stepen Willis.)
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C / C / G / G /
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C / C / G / G /
C / C / F / C /
F / C / Dm / G /
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F / C Am / G / C /
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C F
Once I found a stowaway
G C
Upon my ship on Christmas Day
Am Dm G
I was fair, so I gave him a chance.
C F
“You shouldn’t be here, what’s your tale?
G C
I ought to throw you to the whale.”
Am Dm G
He just smiled and said, “Come here, let’s dance.”
CHORUS:
C F C
He said, “Borrow or steal, I’ll find a way
F C Dm G
To be with my lover upon Christmas Day
C F C
And I’ll run, and I’ll roam, I’ll cover the ground
F C Am G
C
Next Christmas I’ll see you, I’ll be around.”
C / F / G / C /
C / F / G / C /
He told me ‘bout his girl back home
Waiting patient, all alone
While we danced I shed a little tear.
He closed his eyes, all out at sea
I think he danced with her, not me
I’ll just have to wait another year.
He said, “Borrow or steal, I’ll find a way
To be with my lover upon Christmas Day
And I’ll run, and I’ll roam, I’ll cover the ground
Next Christmas I’ll see you, I’ll be around.
G / D / A / D /
D G
I think of him now and again
A D
I wonder how his journey ends
Bm Em A
As I sail by on my lonesome sea.
D G
That stranger with the haunting face
A D
Here, then gone without a trace.
Bm Em A
Lying with his love, that’s where he’ll be.
CHORUS:
D G D
Beg, borrow or steal, I’ll find a way
G D Em A
To be with my lover upon Christmas Day
D G D
And I’ll run, and I’ll roam, I’ll cover the ground
G D A D
Next Christmas I’ll see you, I’ll be around.
Beg, borrow or steal, I’ll find a way
To be with my lover upon Christmas Day
And I’ll run, and I’ll roam, I’ll cover the ground
Next Christmas I’ll see you, I’ll be around.
