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Chords: C/G x32013 G/B x20033 Am7 x02213 G 320003 Fadd9 131213 Em 022003 G* 320033 F x33211 C x32010
In an C/Gold city bG/Bar That's nAm7ever too fGar From the pFadd9laces that gathEmer Fadd9 G* From the dreams that have been In the sC/Gafety of niG/Bght By an Am7old neon lGight It bFadd9eckons to strangEmers Fadd9 G* And they always come in
And the snow it was falling The neon was calling The music was low And the night, Christmas Eve And here was the danger Even with strangers Inside of this night It's easier to believe Then the door opened wide And a child came inside That no one in the bar Had seen there before And he asked did we know That outside in the snow That someone was lost Standing outside our door And the bartender gazed Through the smoke and the haze Through the window and ice To that corner streetlight Where standing alone By a broken pay phone Was a girl the child said Could no longer get home And the snow it was falling The neon was calling The bartender turned and said, "Not that I care. But how would you know this?" The child said, "I've noticed, If one could be home, They'd be already there."
Then the baFrtender came oCut From beGhind the bCar In Fall of his lCife He was nGever that fCar And he Fdid something Celse That he thGought no one sCaw And he tFook all the cCash From the regGister draCwer
G* C Then he followed the child
To the gFirl across the stCreet G* C And we watched from the bar As they stFarted to spCeak Then he caFlled for a cCab G* C And he said, "J.F.K." Put the gFirl in the cCab G* C Then the cab drove away And we Fsaw in his hCands G* C That the cash was all gone F C G* From the light that she had wished upon
If you want to arrange it This world you can change it If we could somehow make this Christmas thing last By helping a neighbor Or even a stranger And to know who needs help You need only just ask Then he looked for the child The child wasn't there Just the wind and the snow Waltzing dreams through the air And he walked back inside Somehow different I think For the rest of the night No one paid for a drink And the cynics will say That some neighborhood kid Wondered in on some bums In the world where they hid But they werent there So they couldnt see By an old neon star On that night Christmas Eve When the snow it was falling The neon was calling In case you should wonder In case you should care Why we on our own Never went home On that night of all nights We were already there