Tom: Bb
CAPO ON 3RD FRET
G G/F# Em Em7 C C/B Am D
G G/F#
In an Old City Bar
Em Em7
That's never too far
C C/B
From the places that gather
Am D
The dreams that have been
G G/F#
In the safety of night
Em Em7
With it's old neon light
C C/B
It beckons to strangers
Am D
And they always come in
G G/F#
And the snow it was falling
Em Em7
The neon was calling
C C/B
The music was low
Am D
And the night... Christmas Eve
G G/F#
But here was the danger
Em Em7
That even with strangers
C D
Inside of this night
(D) (Play following once:)
It's easier to believe
G G/F# Em Em7 C C/B D
(Back to original pattern)
Then the door opened wide
A child came inside
that no one in the bar
had seen there before.
And he asked did you know
that outside in the snow
that someone was lost
standing outside our door.
And the bar tender gazed
through the smoke and the haze
through the window and ice
and that corner street light
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 bar tender turned and said,
not that I care.
But how would you know this?
The child said I've noticed,
C D
if one could be home,
(D)
they'd be already there.
C C/B Am G (2x)
C C/B
And the bar tender came out
Am G
from behind the bar.
C C/B
And in all of his life
Am G
he was never that far.
C C/B
And he did something else
Am G
that he thought no one saw.
C C/B
When he took all the cash
Am G
from the register drawer
D C G
Then he followed the child to the girl 'cross the street
D C G
And we watched from the bar as they started to speak
C G C G
Then he called for a cab... and he said "JFK"
C G C G
Put the girl in the cab and the cab drove away
C G C G
And I could see in his hand that the cash was all gone
C D
From the light that she had wished upon
G G/F# Em Em7
If you want to arrange it... This world you can change it
C C/B Am D
If we could, somehow, make this Christmas thing last
G G/F# Em Em7
By helping a neighbor... or even a stranger
C D
To know who needs help
G G/F# Em Em7 C C/B D
You need only just ask
(Original chord progression)
Then he looked for the child,
but the child wasn't there.
Just the wind and the snow,
waltzing dreams filled the air.
So he walked back inside
somehow different, I think.
For the rest of the night
no one payed for a drink.
And the singers would sing
how some neighborhood kid
wondered in on some bums
in the world where they hid.
But they weren't there,
so they couldn't have seen,
by on old neon star,
on that night, Christmas Eve.
When the snow, it was falling,
the neon was calling,
incase you should wonder,
incase you should care.
Now we on our own
never went home.
C D
On that night of all nights
(D)
We were already there
C C/B Am G
