Tom: Em
C G
This hotel is cheap
C G
And the pillows stink
Am G
And there's not a single thing
Am G
To say it's Christmas Eve
C G
Oh Saint Nicholas
C G
I know I ain't in your list
Am G
But if you're listening
Am G
I need a bus ticket
C G
I came through Montreal
C G
I lost a lot of dough
Am G
Could find no honest job
Am G
So I did some other ones
C G
Got into trouble and
C G
I had to run or suffer
Am G
And then a long road
Am G
Into a long December
[Instrumental Break]
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[Verse]
C G
Over the water and
C G
Over the border and
Am G
Over the open land
Am G
To this Ramada Inn
C G
No overbooking here
C G
No sort of holy birth
Am G
No miracles occurring
Am G
No nodding creatures stirring
C G
Oh Saint Stephen
C G
Where is your feast when I
Am G
When I so sorely need it
Am G
When I've been hardly eating
C G
But I'd give my food and drink
C G
To see my home again
Am G
To see my mother's hand
Am G
Against her apron edge
[Chorus]
C G
Oh
C Em
Oh
C Cm Em Am C
Oh (x2)
[Verse]
C G
Oh Saint Christopher
C G
Send me a Christian word
Am G
Send me a southern wind
Am G
Oh send me up to my kin
C G
Hear the boys singing
C G
Through their drunken grinning
Am G
Oh Jesus, Joseph, Mary
Am G
I hear their voices carry
[Chorus]
C G
Carry me home
C Em
Home
C Cm Em Am C
Home (x2)
[Verse]
C G
Can any saints hear me?
C G
Is there any angel near me?
Am G
If you won't lift me up
Am G
Then would you send my love
C G
Back to my home
C G
Back to my only shelter
Am G
Where in the awful weather
Am G
I will be warm and welcome
[Chorus]
C G
Back to my home
C Em
Home
C Cm Em Am C
Home
[Outro]
C G
Home
C Em
Home
C Cm Em Am C
Home
C G
Home
C Em
Home
C Cm Em Am G
Home
