Christmas Blues

Words & Music by Sammy Cahn & David Holt
Recorded by Dean Martin, 1953


     D     Dsus4  D   Em             F#m                   G6
The jingle bells are jinglin', the streets are white with snow,

     D    Dsus4   D   Em                  D7  D6  Am Am7  D9
The happy crowds are minglin' but there's no one that I know;

     G7       Edim      G7   G    D  F#7      B7
I'm sure that you'll forgive me if I don't enthuse --

    G        Em7      Edim    A7   F#7  B7  G/B  A7
I guess I've got the Christ - mas blues.


       D     Dsus4  D   Em               F#m                 G6
I've done my win - dow shopping, there's not a store I've missed;

     D        Dsus4 D   Em                  D7  D6  Am Am7  D9
But what's the use  in stopping when there's no one on your list?

        G7     Edim      G7       G       D   F#7      B7
You'll know the way I'm feeling when you love and you lose --

   G         Em7     Edim     A7    D     Bm7
I guess I've got the Christ - mas blues.


      F#7      B7        F#7        B7
When somebody wants you, somebody needs you,

 Em              Am7     Em
Christmas is the joy of joys;

    C#7                   F#m        C#7            F#m
But friends, when you're lonely, you find that it's only

   F#m7            B7                E7   A7
A thing for little girls and little boys.


     D      Dsus4  D Em          F#m              G6
May all your days be merry, your seasons full of cheer,

     D       Dsus4   D  Em                D7 D6  Am   Am7    D9
But 'til it's Jan - u - ar - y, I'll just go and dis - ap - pear;

     G7   Edim       G7    G         D    F#7      B7
Ol' Santa may have brought you some stars for your shoes --

     G    G/F#    E7  Bm7-5     F#7
But Santa only brought  me the blues;

      E7/9       E7        Cdim     Bm7-5    G/B     A7  D
Those brightly - packaged, tinsel - covered Christ - mas blues.



 
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